linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] memcg: add nmi-safe update for MEMCG

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Message-ID: <20250509232859.657525-3-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Date: Fri,  9 May 2025 16:28:57 -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>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Meta kernel team <kernel-team@...a.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] memcg: add nmi-safe update for MEMCG_KMEM

The objcg based kmem charging and uncharging code path needs to update
MEMCG_KMEM appropriately. Let's add support to update MEMCG_KMEM in
nmi-safe way for those code paths.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7200f6930daf..e91e4368650f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2779,6 +2779,18 @@ struct obj_cgroup *get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(struct folio *folio)
 	return objcg;
 }
 
+
+static inline void account_kmem_nmi_safe(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int val)
+{
+	if (likely(!in_nmi())) {
+		mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_KMEM, val);
+	} else {
+		/* TODO: add to cgroup update tree once it is nmi-safe. */
+		atomic64_add(val, &memcg->kmem_stat);
+	}
+}
+
+
 /*
  * obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages: uncharge a number of kernel pages from a objcg
  * @objcg: object cgroup to uncharge
@@ -2791,7 +2803,7 @@ static void obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
 
 	memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
 
-	mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_KMEM, -nr_pages);
+	account_kmem_nmi_safe(memcg, -nr_pages);
 	memcg1_account_kmem(memcg, -nr_pages);
 	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
 		refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
@@ -2819,7 +2831,7 @@ static int obj_cgroup_charge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp,
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
-	mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_KMEM, nr_pages);
+	account_kmem_nmi_safe(memcg, nr_pages);
 	memcg1_account_kmem(memcg, nr_pages);
 out:
 	css_put(&memcg->css);
-- 
2.47.1