[PATCH v3 04/13] mm: hugetlb: Remove unused mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb function

From: Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 22:55:51 EST


From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Now that the alloc_hugetlb_folio path has been successfully migrated to
the new try-commit-cancel memcg charging protocol, the old
mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb function and its associated header and
static inline declarations are completely unused. Remove them to clean
up the memory controller's codebase.

Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 6 ------
mm/memcontrol.c | 34 ----------------------------------
2 files changed, 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index c4e63d0e03526..23fbbbc8e11f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -641,7 +641,6 @@ static inline int mem_cgroup_charge(struct folio *folio, struct mm_struct *mm,
return __mem_cgroup_charge(folio, mm, gfp);
}

-int mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp);
int mem_cgroup_hugetlb_try_charge(unsigned int nr_pages, gfp_t gfp,
struct mem_cgroup **memcg_p,
struct obj_cgroup **objcg_p);
@@ -1137,11 +1136,6 @@ static inline int mem_cgroup_charge(struct folio *folio,
return 0;
}

-static inline int mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
static inline int mem_cgroup_hugetlb_try_charge(unsigned int nr_pages, gfp_t gfp,
struct mem_cgroup **memcg_p,
struct obj_cgroup **objcg_p)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 0beee5c0ce93b..6764ff041c196 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5146,40 +5146,6 @@ int __mem_cgroup_charge(struct folio *folio, struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp)
return ret;
}

-/**
- * mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb - charge the memcg for a hugetlb folio
- * @folio: folio being charged
- * @gfp: reclaim mode
- *
- * This function is called when allocating a huge page folio, after the page has
- * already been obtained and charged to the appropriate hugetlb cgroup
- * controller (if it is enabled).
- *
- * Returns ENOMEM if the memcg is already full.
- * Returns 0 if either the charge was successful, or if we skip the charging.
- */
-int mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp)
-{
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_current();
- int ret = 0;
-
- /*
- * Even memcg does not account for hugetlb, we still want to update
- * system-level stats via lruvec_stat_mod_folio. Return 0, and skip
- * charging the memcg.
- */
- if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !memcg_accounts_hugetlb() ||
- !memcg || !cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys))
- goto out;
-
- if (charge_memcg(folio, memcg, gfp))
- ret = -ENOMEM;
-
-out:
- mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
- return ret;
-}
-
/**
* mem_cgroup_hugetlb_try_charge - Try to charge the memcg for a hugetlb folio
* @nr_pages: number of base pages to charge

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2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog