From b10615b8eff1d5da95d0c47bba996131e60aca2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shakeel Butt Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:02:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: skip cgroup_file_notify if spinning is not allowed Generally memcg charging is allowed from all the contexts including NMI where even spinning on spinlock can cause locking issues. However one call chain was missed during the addition of memcg charging from any context support. That is try_charge_memcg() -> memcg_memory_event() -> cgroup_file_notify(). The possible function call tree under cgroup_file_notify() can acquire many different spin locks in spinning mode. Some of them are cgroup_file_kn_lock, kernfs_notify_lock, pool_workqeue's lock. So, let's just skip cgroup_file_notify() from memcg charging if the context does not allow spinning. Alternative approach was also explored where instead of skipping cgroup_file_notify(), we defer the memcg event processing to irq_work [1]. However it adds complexity and it was decided to keep things simple until we need more memcg events with !allow_spinning requirement. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5qi2llyzf7gklncflo6gxoozljbm4h3tpnuv4u4ej4ztysvi6f@x44v7nz2wdzd/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922220203.261714-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Fixes: 3ac4638a734a ("memcg: make memcg_rstat_updated nmi safe") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Michal Hocko Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250905061919.439648-1-yepeilin@google.com/ Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Peilin Ye Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++------- mm/memcontrol.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 785173aa0739..99850fec7f8b 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -987,22 +987,28 @@ static inline void count_memcg_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, count_memcg_events_mm(mm, idx, 1); } -static inline void memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, - enum memcg_memory_event event) +static inline void __memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, + enum memcg_memory_event event, + bool allow_spinning) { bool swap_event = event == MEMCG_SWAP_HIGH || event == MEMCG_SWAP_MAX || event == MEMCG_SWAP_FAIL; + /* For now only MEMCG_MAX can happen with !allow_spinning context. */ + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!allow_spinning && event != MEMCG_MAX); + atomic_long_inc(&memcg->memory_events_local[event]); - if (!swap_event) + if (!swap_event && allow_spinning) cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_local_file); do { atomic_long_inc(&memcg->memory_events[event]); - if (swap_event) - cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->swap_events_file); - else - cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_file); + if (allow_spinning) { + if (swap_event) + cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->swap_events_file); + else + cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_file); + } if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) break; @@ -1012,6 +1018,12 @@ static inline void memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)); } +static inline void memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, + enum memcg_memory_event event) +{ + __memcg_memory_event(memcg, event, true); +} + static inline void memcg_memory_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, enum memcg_memory_event event) { diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 8dd7fbed5a94..7d2e331656c6 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2309,12 +2309,13 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, bool drained = false; bool raised_max_event = false; unsigned long pflags; + bool allow_spinning = gfpflags_allow_spinning(gfp_mask); retry: if (consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages)) return 0; - if (!gfpflags_allow_spinning(gfp_mask)) + if (!allow_spinning) /* Avoid the refill and flush of the older stock */ batch = nr_pages; @@ -2350,7 +2351,7 @@ retry: if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask)) goto nomem; - memcg_memory_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_MAX); + __memcg_memory_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_MAX, allow_spinning); raised_max_event = true; psi_memstall_enter(&pflags); @@ -2417,7 +2418,7 @@ force: * a MEMCG_MAX event. */ if (!raised_max_event) - memcg_memory_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_MAX); + __memcg_memory_event(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_MAX, allow_spinning); /* * The allocation either can't fail or will lead to more memory -- 2.51.0