linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] mm: introduce BPF kfuncs to access memcg statistics and events

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Message-ID: <87cy6757e0.fsf@linux.dev>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:16:23 -0700
From: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
To: bot+bpf-ci@...nel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] mm: introduce BPF kfuncs to access memcg
 statistics and events

bot+bpf-ci@...nel.org writes:

> ```
> commit 96abfe0549713749f00e32bff919a759db284a58
> Author: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
>
> mm: introduce BPF kfuncs to access memcg statistics and events
>
> This patch adds four new BPF kfuncs for accessing memory cgroup statistics
> and events, making them available to all BPF program types for implementing
> OOM policies and accelerating memcg data access.
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> index 39a6c7c87..b9e08dddd 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>
> [ ... ]
>
>> diff --git a/mm/bpf_memcontrol.c b/mm/bpf_memcontrol.c
>> index 76c342318..387255b8a 100644
>> --- a/mm/bpf_memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/bpf_memcontrol.c
>
> [ ... ]
>
>> @@ -75,6 +75,56 @@ __bpf_kfunc void bpf_put_mem_cgroup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>>  	css_put(&memcg->css);
>>  }
>>
>> +/**
>> + * bpf_mem_cgroup_vm_events - Read memory cgroup's vm event counter
>> + * @memcg: memory cgroup
>> + * @event: event id
>> + *
>> + * Allows to read memory cgroup event counters.
>> + */
>> +__bpf_kfunc unsigned long bpf_mem_cgroup_vm_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>> +						enum vm_event_item event)
>> +{
>> +	return memcg_events(memcg, event);
>> +}
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * bpf_mem_cgroup_usage - Read memory cgroup's usage
>> + * @memcg: memory cgroup
>> + *
>> + * Returns current memory cgroup size in bytes.
>> + */
>> +__bpf_kfunc unsigned long bpf_mem_cgroup_usage(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>> +{
>> +	return page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
>> +}
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The documentation says this returns bytes, but page_counter_read() returns
> pages. In mm/memcontrol-v1.c, the existing mem_cgroup_usage() function's
> return value is multiplied by PAGE_SIZE to convert to bytes:
>
>     return (u64)mem_cgroup_usage(memcg, false) * PAGE_SIZE;
>
> Should this function multiply the result by PAGE_SIZE to match its
> documentation, or should the documentation be updated to say it returns
> pages?

Yep, correct, fixed.