From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
To: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
andrii@kernel.org, eddyz87@gmail.com, memxor@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v9 0/3] bpf: arena: handle memory.max on fault-in with reclaim
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:10:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179012940739.177114.1298290865811499101.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922101831.192102-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Hello:
This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:17:32 +0800 you wrote:
> Since commit e66fe1bc6d25 ("bpf: arena: Reintroduce memcg accounting"),
> arena pages are charged to the memcg of the process that created the arena.
> That exposes a problem in the arena user page fault path: the fault-in
> allocation runs under arena->spinlock, so it can only use the non-blocking
> allocator, which never reclaims. Once memory.current is at memory.max the
> allocation simply fails, even when the memcg is full of page cache that
> could be dropped right away. Reaching memory.max is completely normal for a
> healthy application - e.g. reading a large file fills memory.current with
> page cache - and the process then gets SIGSEGV on a perfectly valid arena
> address.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [bpf-next,v9,1/3] bpf: arena: allocate the fault-in page outside the lock
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/c7cd8be3d72f
- [bpf-next,v9,2/3] selftests/bpf: Add read_cgroup_file() to cgroup_helpers
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/a781db31b484
- [bpf-next,v9,3/3] selftests/bpf: Add a test for arena fault-in under memory.max
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/1fe5a5cd01e4
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 10:17 Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-22 10:17 ` [PATCH bpf-next v9 1/3] bpf: arena: allocate the fault-in page outside the lock Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-22 10:17 ` [PATCH bpf-next v9 2/3] selftests/bpf: Add read_cgroup_file() to cgroup_helpers Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-22 10:17 ` [PATCH bpf-next v9 3/3] selftests/bpf: Add a test for arena fault-in under memory.max Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-22 11:28 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 2:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf [this message]
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