Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] memcg: disable kmem charging in nmi for unsupported arch

[Johannes Weiner]

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:32:27AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The memcg accounting and stats uses this_cpu* and atomic* ops. There are
> archs which define CONFIG_HAVE_NMI but does not define
> CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS and ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, so
> memcg accounting for such archs in nmi context is not possible to
> support. Let's just disable memcg accounting in nmi context for such
> archs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - reorder the in_nmi() check as suggested by Vlastimil
> 
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |  5 +++++
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index f7848f73f41c..53920528821f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie {
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS) || \
> +	!defined(CONFIG_HAVE_NMI) || defined(ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG)

                                             CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG?

> +#define MEMCG_SUPPORTS_NMI_CHARGING
> +#endif

Since it's derived from config symbols, it's better to make this an
internal symbol as well. Something like:

	config MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE
		bool
		depends on HAVE_NMI
		depends on !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG

>  #define MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT	16
>  
>  struct mem_cgroup_id {
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index e17b698f6243..0f182e4a9da0 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2647,11 +2647,26 @@ static struct obj_cgroup *current_objcg_update(void)
>  	return objcg;
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef MEMCG_SUPPORTS_NMI_CHARGING
> +static inline bool nmi_charging_allowed(void)
> +{
> +	return true;
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline bool nmi_charging_allowed(void)
> +{
> +	return false;
> +}
> +#endif

...drop these...

> +
>  __always_inline struct obj_cgroup *current_obj_cgroup(void)
>  {
>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>  	struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
>  
> +	if (!nmi_charging_allowed() && in_nmi())
> +		return NULL;

..and finally do

	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMCG_NMI_UNSAFE && in_nmi())
		return NULL;

here.