linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces

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Message-ID: <wwuzmneum26ddbf43kquy6u5rynbtwsphkp7xlp4ktnznxmn54@dmxb54xxhgah>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 11:27:00 -0800
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>, 
	Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@...cle.com>, Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@...ux.dev>, 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: Re: [PATCH 0/4] memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces

Hi Andrew, can you please pick this series as it is ready for wider
testing.

thanks,
Shakeel

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 03:20:04PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The memcg stats are safe against irq (and nmi) context and thus does not
> require disabling irqs. However for some stats which are also maintained
> at node level, it is using irq unsafe interface and thus requiring the
> users to still disables irqs or use interfaces which explicitly disables
> irqs. Let's move memcg code to use irq safe node level stats function
> which is already optimized for architectures with HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> (all major ones), so there will not be any performance penalty for its
> usage.
> 
> Shakeel Butt (4):
>   memcg: use mod_node_page_state to update stats
>   memcg: remove __mod_lruvec_kmem_state
>   memcg: remove __mod_lruvec_state
>   memcg: remove __lruvec_stat_mod_folio
> 
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 28 ++++------------------
>  include/linux/mm_inline.h  |  2 +-
>  include/linux/vmstat.h     | 48 ++------------------------------------
>  mm/filemap.c               | 20 ++++++++--------
>  mm/huge_memory.c           |  4 ++--
>  mm/khugepaged.c            |  8 +++----
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 20 ++++++++--------
>  mm/migrate.c               | 20 ++++++++--------
>  mm/page-writeback.c        |  2 +-
>  mm/rmap.c                  |  4 ++--
>  mm/shmem.c                 |  6 ++---
>  mm/vmscan.c                |  4 ++--
>  mm/workingset.c            |  2 +-
>  13 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.47.3
>