[PATCH v4 4/5] mm/memcontrol: convert memcg to use page_counter_stock
From: Joshua Hahn
Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 14:05:06 EST
Now with all of the memcg_stock handling logic replicated in
page_counter_stock, switch memcg to use the page_counter_stock for the
memory (and for cgroup v1 users, memsw) page_counters.
There are a few details that have changed:
First, the old special-casing for the !allow_spinning check to avoid
refilling and flushing of the old stock is removed. This special casing
was important previously, because refilling the stock could do a lot of
extra work by evicting one of 7 random victim memcgs in the percpu
memcg_stock slots. In the new per-counter design, refilling stock just
adds pages to the counter's own local cache without affecting other memcgs,
so the original reason for the special case no longer applies.
Also, we can now fail during page_counter_alloc_stock(), if there is
not enough memory to allocate a percpu page_counter_stock. This failure
is rare and nonfatal; the system can continue to operate, with the page
counter working without stock and falling back to walking the hierarchy.
drain_all_stock and memcg_hotplug_cpu_dead also now use the page_counter
stock drain variant, which uses remote atomic_xchg to retrieve stock
across CPUs, instead of scheduling asynchronous work.
Finally, as a side-effect of separating the per-memcg stock to per-
page_counter, the memsw and memory page_counters have independent stock.
This means that the reported memsw may transiently be lower than memory
usage if the stock for memory and memsw page_counters go out of sync.
Note that obj_stock is untouched by this change.
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 306658fd55512..846800917af49 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2269,39 +2269,36 @@ static void schedule_drain_work(int cpu, struct work_struct *work)
queue_work_on(cpu, memcg_wq, work);
}
+static void memcg_drain_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int cpu)
+{
+ page_counter_drain_stock(&memcg->memory, cpu);
+ if (do_memsw_account())
+ page_counter_drain_stock(&memcg->memsw, cpu);
+}
+
/*
* Drains all per-CPU charge caches for given root_memcg resp. subtree
* of the hierarchy under it.
*/
void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
{
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
int cpu, curcpu;
/* If someone's already draining, avoid adding running more workers. */
if (!mutex_trylock(&percpu_charge_mutex))
return;
- /*
- * Notify other cpus that system-wide "drain" is running
- * We do not care about races with the cpu hotplug because cpu down
- * as well as workers from this path always operate on the local
- * per-cpu data. CPU up doesn't touch memcg_stock at all.
- */
+
+ for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(memcg, root_memcg) {
+ for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+ memcg_drain_stock(memcg, cpu);
+ }
+
migrate_disable();
curcpu = smp_processor_id();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
- struct memcg_stock_pcp *memcg_st = &per_cpu(memcg_stock, cpu);
struct obj_stock_pcp *obj_st = &per_cpu(obj_stock, cpu);
- if (!test_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &memcg_st->flags) &&
- is_memcg_drain_needed(memcg_st, root_memcg) &&
- !test_and_set_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE,
- &memcg_st->flags)) {
- if (cpu == curcpu)
- drain_local_memcg_stock(&memcg_st->work);
- else
- schedule_drain_work(cpu, &memcg_st->work);
- }
-
if (!test_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &obj_st->flags) &&
obj_stock_flush_required(obj_st, root_memcg) &&
!test_and_set_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE,
@@ -2318,9 +2315,13 @@ void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
static int memcg_hotplug_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
{
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+
/* no need for the local lock */
drain_obj_stock(&per_cpu(obj_stock, cpu));
- drain_stock_fully(&per_cpu(memcg_stock, cpu));
+
+ for_each_mem_cgroup(memcg)
+ memcg_drain_stock(memcg, cpu);
return 0;
}
@@ -2595,7 +2596,6 @@ void __mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(gfp_t gfp_mask)
static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int nr_pages)
{
- unsigned int batch = max(MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH, nr_pages);
int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
struct page_counter *counter;
@@ -2606,36 +2606,30 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
bool raised_max_event = false;
unsigned long pflags;
bool allow_spinning = gfpflags_allow_spinning(gfp_mask);
+ unsigned long nr_charged = 0;
retry:
- if (consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages))
- return 0;
-
- if (!allow_spinning)
- /* Avoid the refill and flush of the older stock */
- batch = nr_pages;
-
reclaim_options = MEMCG_RECLAIM_MAY_SWAP;
if (do_memsw_account() &&
- !page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->memsw, batch, &counter)) {
+ !page_counter_try_charge_stock(&memcg->memsw, nr_pages,
+ &counter, NULL)) {
mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_counter(counter, memsw);
reclaim_options &= ~MEMCG_RECLAIM_MAY_SWAP;
goto reclaim;
}
- if (page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->memory, batch, &counter))
- goto done_restock;
+ if (page_counter_try_charge_stock(&memcg->memory, nr_pages,
+ &counter, &nr_charged)) {
+ if (!nr_charged)
+ return 0;
+ goto handle_high;
+ }
if (do_memsw_account())
- page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, batch);
+ page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, nr_pages);
mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_counter(counter, memory);
reclaim:
- if (batch > nr_pages) {
- batch = nr_pages;
- goto retry;
- }
-
/*
* Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to
* allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily,
@@ -2731,10 +2725,7 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
return 0;
-done_restock:
- if (batch > nr_pages)
- refill_stock(memcg, batch - nr_pages);
-
+handle_high:
/*
* If the hierarchy is above the normal consumption range, schedule
* reclaim on returning to userland. We can perform reclaim here
@@ -2771,7 +2762,7 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
* and distribute reclaim work and delay penalties
* based on how much each task is actually allocating.
*/
- current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += batch;
+ current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += nr_charged;
set_notify_resume(current);
break;
}
@@ -3076,7 +3067,7 @@ static void obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
account_kmem_nmi_safe(memcg, -nr_pages);
memcg1_account_kmem(memcg, -nr_pages);
if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
- refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
+ memcg_uncharge(memcg, nr_pages);
css_put(&memcg->css);
}
@@ -4080,6 +4071,8 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
static void mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
+ page_counter_free_stock(&memcg->memory);
+ page_counter_free_stock(&memcg->memsw);
lru_gen_exit_memcg(memcg);
memcg_wb_domain_exit(memcg);
__mem_cgroup_free(memcg);
@@ -4247,6 +4240,11 @@ static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
refcount_set(&memcg->id.ref, 1);
css_get(css);
+ /* failure is nonfatal, charges fall back to direct hierarchy */
+ page_counter_alloc_stock(&memcg->memory, MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH);
+ if (do_memsw_account())
+ page_counter_alloc_stock(&memcg->memsw, MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH);
+
/*
* Ensure mem_cgroup_from_private_id() works once we're fully online.
*
@@ -5502,7 +5500,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_sk_uncharge(const struct sock *sk, unsigned int nr_pages)
mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, -nr_pages);
- refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
+ page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory, nr_pages);
}
void mem_cgroup_flush_workqueue(void)
@@ -5555,12 +5553,9 @@ int __init mem_cgroup_init(void)
memcg_wq = alloc_workqueue("memcg", WQ_PERCPU, 0);
WARN_ON(!memcg_wq);
- for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- INIT_WORK(&per_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock, cpu)->work,
- drain_local_memcg_stock);
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
INIT_WORK(&per_cpu_ptr(&obj_stock, cpu)->work,
drain_local_obj_stock);
- }
memcg_size = struct_size_t(struct mem_cgroup, nodeinfo, nr_node_ids);
memcg_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mem_cgroup", memcg_size, 0,
--
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