linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] memcg: simplify consume

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Message-ID: <20250429230428.1935619-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:04:25 -0700
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Meta kernel team <kernel-team@...a.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] memcg: simplify consume_stock

The consume_stock() does not need to check gfp_mask for spinning and can
simply trylock the local lock to decide to proceed or fail. No need to
spin at all for local lock.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 20 +++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 650fe4314c39..40d0838d88bc 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1804,16 +1804,14 @@ static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock,
  * consume_stock: Try to consume stocked charge on this cpu.
  * @memcg: memcg to consume from.
  * @nr_pages: how many pages to charge.
- * @gfp_mask: allocation mask.
  *
- * The charges will only happen if @memcg matches the current cpu's memcg
- * stock, and at least @nr_pages are available in that stock.  Failure to
- * service an allocation will refill the stock.
+ * Consume the cached charge if enough nr_pages are present otherwise return
+ * failure. Also return failure for charge request larger than
+ * MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH or if the local lock is already taken.
  *
  * returns true if successful, false otherwise.
  */
-static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages,
-			  gfp_t gfp_mask)
+static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
 {
 	struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;
 	uint8_t stock_pages;
@@ -1821,12 +1819,8 @@ static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages,
 	bool ret = false;
 	int i;
 
-	if (nr_pages > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)
-		return ret;
-
-	if (gfpflags_allow_spinning(gfp_mask))
-		local_lock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags);
-	else if (!local_trylock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags))
+	if (nr_pages > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH ||
+	    !local_trylock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags))
 		return ret;
 
 	stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
@@ -2329,7 +2323,7 @@ static int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	unsigned long pflags;
 
 retry:
-	if (consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask))
+	if (consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!gfpflags_allow_spinning(gfp_mask))
-- 
2.47.1