[PATCH] mm/percpu: clean up callers of pcpu_obj_full_size()

From: Joshua Hahn

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 13:17:03 EST


The size of a pcpu allocation can be interpreted in two ways:
1. The size of the allocation attributable to a single CPU.
2. The total size of the allocation across all CPUs, including the
allocation overhead (for obj_cgroup membership).

In most accounting paths for percpu memory, we need the second
definition (total size). Make this more obvious by coalescing the
callers of pcpu_obj_full_size().

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/percpu.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index d7883507dc151..76848e096caee 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ static bool pcpu_memcg_pre_alloc_hook(size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
if (!objcg || obj_cgroup_is_root(objcg))
return true;

- if (obj_cgroup_charge(objcg, gfp, pcpu_obj_full_size(size)))
+ if (obj_cgroup_charge(objcg, gfp, size))
return false;

*objcgp = objcg;
@@ -1642,11 +1642,10 @@ static void pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
chunk->obj_exts[off >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT].cgroup = objcg;

rcu_read_lock();
- mod_memcg_state(obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg), MEMCG_PERCPU_B,
- pcpu_obj_full_size(size));
+ mod_memcg_state(obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg), MEMCG_PERCPU_B, size);
rcu_read_unlock();
} else {
- obj_cgroup_uncharge(objcg, pcpu_obj_full_size(size));
+ obj_cgroup_uncharge(objcg, size);
}
}

@@ -1662,11 +1661,10 @@ static void pcpu_memcg_free_hook(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int off, size_t size)
return;
chunk->obj_exts[off >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT].cgroup = NULL;

- obj_cgroup_uncharge(objcg, pcpu_obj_full_size(size));
+ obj_cgroup_uncharge(objcg, size);

rcu_read_lock();
- mod_memcg_state(obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg), MEMCG_PERCPU_B,
- -pcpu_obj_full_size(size));
+ mod_memcg_state(obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg), MEMCG_PERCPU_B, -size);
rcu_read_unlock();

obj_cgroup_put(objcg);
@@ -1696,15 +1694,14 @@ static void pcpu_alloc_tag_alloc_hook(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int off,
{
if (mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() && likely(chunk->obj_exts)) {
alloc_tag_add(&chunk->obj_exts[off >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT].tag,
- current->alloc_tag, pcpu_obj_full_size(size));
+ current->alloc_tag, size);
}
}

static void pcpu_alloc_tag_free_hook(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int off, size_t size)
{
if (mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() && likely(chunk->obj_exts))
- alloc_tag_sub(&chunk->obj_exts[off >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT].tag,
- pcpu_obj_full_size(size));
+ alloc_tag_sub(&chunk->obj_exts[off >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT].tag, size);
}
#else
static void pcpu_alloc_tag_alloc_hook(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int off,
@@ -1744,7 +1741,7 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
int slot, off, cpu, ret;
unsigned long flags;
void __percpu *ptr;
- size_t bits, bit_align;
+ size_t bits, bit_align, full_size;

gfp = current_gfp_context(gfp);
/*
@@ -1773,6 +1770,7 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
size = ALIGN(size, PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE);
bits = size >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT;
bit_align = align >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT;
+ full_size = pcpu_obj_full_size(size);

if (unlikely(!size || size > PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE || align > PAGE_SIZE ||
!is_power_of_2(align))) {
@@ -1781,7 +1779,7 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
return NULL;
}

- if (unlikely(!pcpu_memcg_pre_alloc_hook(size, gfp, &objcg)))
+ if (unlikely(!pcpu_memcg_pre_alloc_hook(full_size, gfp, &objcg)))
return NULL;

if (!is_atomic) {
@@ -1793,7 +1791,7 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
mutex_lock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
} else if (mutex_lock_killable(&pcpu_alloc_mutex)) {
- pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(objcg, NULL, 0, size);
+ pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(objcg, NULL, 0, full_size);
return NULL;
}
}
@@ -1903,12 +1901,11 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
kmemleak_alloc_percpu(ptr, size, gfp);

trace_percpu_alloc_percpu(_RET_IP_, reserved, is_atomic, size, align,
- chunk->base_addr, off, ptr,
- pcpu_obj_full_size(size), gfp);
+ chunk->base_addr, off, ptr, full_size, gfp);

- pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(objcg, chunk, off, size);
+ pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(objcg, chunk, off, full_size);

- pcpu_alloc_tag_alloc_hook(chunk, off, size);
+ pcpu_alloc_tag_alloc_hook(chunk, off, full_size);

return ptr;

@@ -1938,7 +1935,7 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
mutex_unlock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
}

- pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(objcg, NULL, 0, size);
+ pcpu_memcg_post_alloc_hook(objcg, NULL, 0, full_size);

return NULL;
}
@@ -2242,6 +2239,7 @@ void free_percpu(void __percpu *ptr)
struct pcpu_chunk *chunk;
unsigned long flags;
int size, off;
+ size_t full_size;
bool need_balance = false;

if (!ptr)
@@ -2262,10 +2260,11 @@ void free_percpu(void __percpu *ptr)
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
return;
}
+ full_size = pcpu_obj_full_size(size);

- pcpu_alloc_tag_free_hook(chunk, off, size);
+ pcpu_alloc_tag_free_hook(chunk, off, full_size);

- pcpu_memcg_free_hook(chunk, off, size);
+ pcpu_memcg_free_hook(chunk, off, full_size);

/*
* If there are more than one fully free chunks, wake up grim reaper.

base-commit: 2887e63d2e8e0cf55402612d8996ce955a2c3e55
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2.53.0-Meta