[PATCH] mm/hugetlb_cgroup: call page_counter_set_max() outside VM_BUG_ON()
From: Narek Jilavyan
Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 06:34:47 EST
hugetlb_cgroup_css_alloc() rounds the counter limit down to a multiple of
the huge page size and then applies it inside an assertion:
VM_BUG_ON(page_counter_set_max(fault, limit));
VM_BUG_ON(page_counter_set_max(rsvd, limit));
With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n, VM_BUG_ON(cond) is BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID(cond),
i.e. ((void)(sizeof((__force long)(cond)))), whose operand is never
evaluated. page_counter_set_max() is not a predicate - it performs
xchg(&counter->max, nr_pages) - so on every non-debug kernel the limit is
never applied and the counters keep page_counter_init()'s
PAGE_COUNTER_MAX.
That is user-visible, because hugetlb_cgroup_read_u64_max() recomputes
the same rounded value and uses equality as its "unlimited" sentinel.
PAGE_COUNTER_MAX is LONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE = 2251799813685247, which is
odd, so round_down() really does change it and the two sides disagree.
With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n:
$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/t/hugetlb.2MB.max
9223372036854771712
and with this patch:
$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/t/hugetlb.2MB.max
max
A debug option should not change cgroup output.
Call the function, then assert the result, as v6.12 did. Use
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() rather than restoring VM_BUG_ON(): the two are
identical under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n, and checkpatch asks that new code not
use BUG() variants.
Fixes: 0e2759afcaf9 ("page_counter: track failcnt only for legacy cgroups")
Signed-off-by: Narek Jilavyan <njilav@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
index e0083de1ca..ecb6e0b781 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ static void hugetlb_cgroup_init(struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cgroup,
struct page_counter *fault, *fault_parent = NULL;
struct page_counter *rsvd, *rsvd_parent = NULL;
unsigned long limit;
+ int ret;
if (parent_h_cgroup) {
fault_parent = hugetlb_cgroup_counter_from_cgroup(
@@ -118,8 +119,10 @@ static void hugetlb_cgroup_init(struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cgroup,
limit = round_down(PAGE_COUNTER_MAX,
pages_per_huge_page(&hstates[idx]));
- VM_BUG_ON(page_counter_set_max(fault, limit));
- VM_BUG_ON(page_counter_set_max(rsvd, limit));
+ ret = page_counter_set_max(fault, limit);
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
+ ret = page_counter_set_max(rsvd, limit);
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
}
}
--
2.43.0