Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows
From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Mar 26 2026 - 03:22:17 EST
On Wed 25-03-26 22:13:21, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi all,
>
> As Harry Yoo pointed out [1], in scenarios where massive state updates occur
> (e.g., during the reparenting of LRU folios), the values passed to memcg stat
> update functions can accumulate and exceed the upper limit of a 32-bit integer.
Is this a real problem without reparenting? In other words is this a
follow up for that work or something that we need on its own?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs