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From: "Harry Yoo (Meta)" <harry@kernel.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,  Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>,
	Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@meta.com,  "Harry Yoo (Meta)" <harry@kernel.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH slab/for-next 13/14] mm/memcontrol: do not allow charging objects without SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:46:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021-memalloc-prof-dont-waste-slabobj-ext-metadata-v1-13-096800aa3330@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021-memalloc-prof-dont-waste-slabobj-ext-metadata-v1-0-096800aa3330@kernel.org>

Objects of a cache without SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT cannot store the objcg
pointer once slabobj_ext space is no longer reserved for every cache.
Skip charging when __GFP_ACCOUNT hits such a cache, and warn once under
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to catch callers that did not opt in.

Refusing the charge here is sufficient for correctness: an object that
is never charged does not access the objcg slot again, and the free
path already skips such caches via slab_needs_objcg().

Assisted-by: LLM # Changelog
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1271d390b617..9f996206592f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3622,6 +3622,12 @@ bool __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list_lru *lru,
 	if (unlikely(*p == NULL))
 		return true;
 
+	/* Do not allow __GFP_ACCOUNT without SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT */
+	if (unlikely(!cache_needs_objcg(s))) {
+		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		return true;
+	}
+
 	flags &= gfp_allowed_mask;
 
 	if (lru) {

-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-21 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-21 11:46 [PATCH slab/for-next 00/14] mm/slab: mandate SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations to avoid wasting memory for slab metadata Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 01/14] mm/slab: allow passing SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT to kmem_cache_create() Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 02/14] lib/maple_tree: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for maple_node cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 03/14] lib/xarray: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for radix_tree_node cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 04/14] fs/buffer: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for buffer_head cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 05/14] net: skbuff: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for skbuff_head_cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 06/14] kernel/fork: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for thread_stack cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 07/14] arm64/mm: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for pgd_cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 08/14] powerpc/mm: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for pgtable caches Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 09/14] iommu: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for slab-backed page table caches Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 10/14] fanotify: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for event caches Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 11/14] smack: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for smack_rule cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 12/14] hostfs: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for inode cache Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-10-21 11:46 ` Harry Yoo (Meta) [this message]
2026-10-21 11:46 ` [PATCH slab/for-next 14/14] mm/slab: do not set SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for all caches Harry Yoo (Meta)

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