If we disabled memcg by cgroup_disable=memory, page->memcg will be NULL and so the charge is skipped and that will trigger a warning like below. Let's return from the funcs earlier. anon flags:0x5005b48008000d(locked|uptodate|dirty|swapbacked) raw: 005005b48008000d dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff8897c7c76ad1 raw: 0000000000000022 0000000000000000 0000000200000000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(!memcg) ... RIP: 0010:vprintk_emit+0x1f7/0x260 Code: 00 84 d2 74 72 0f b6 15 27 58 64 01 48 c7 c0 00 d4 72 82 84 d2 74 09 f3 90 0f b6 10 84 d2 75 f7 e8 de 0d 00 00 4c 89 e7 57 9d <0f> 1f 44 00 00 e9 62 ff ff ff 80 3d 88 c9 3a 01 00 0f 85 54 fe ff RSP: 0018:ffffc9000faab358 EFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: ffffffff8272d400 RBX: 000000000000005e RCX: ffff88afd80d0040 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000202 RBP: ffffc9000faab3a8 R08: ffffffff8272d440 R09: 0000000000022480 R10: 00120c77be68bfac R11: 0000000000cd7568 R12: 0000000000000202 R13: 0057ffffc0080005 R14: ffffffff820a0130 R15: ffffc9000faab3e8 ? vprintk_emit+0x140/0x260 vprintk_default+0x1a/0x20 vprintk_func+0x4f/0xc4 ? vprintk_func+0x4f/0xc4 printk+0x53/0x6a ? xas_load+0xc/0x80 __dump_page.cold.6+0xff/0x4ee ? xas_init_marks+0x23/0x50 ? xas_store+0x30/0x40 ? free_swap_slot+0x43/0xd0 ? put_swap_page+0x119/0x320 ? update_load_avg+0x82/0x580 dump_page+0x9/0xb mem_cgroup_try_charge_swap+0x16e/0x1d0 get_swap_page+0x130/0x210 add_to_swap+0x41/0xc0 shrink_page_list+0x99e/0xdf0 shrink_inactive_list+0x199/0x360 shrink_lruvec+0x40d/0x650 ? _cond_resched+0x14/0x30 ? _cond_resched+0x14/0x30 shrink_node+0x226/0x6e0 do_try_to_free_pages+0xd0/0x400 try_to_free_pages+0xef/0x130 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.127+0x38d/0xbd0 ? ___slab_alloc+0x31d/0x6f0 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x27f/0x2c0 alloc_pages_vma+0x75/0x220 shmem_alloc_page+0x46/0x90 ? release_pages+0x1ae/0x410 shmem_alloc_and_acct_page+0x77/0x1c0 shmem_getpage_gfp+0x162/0x910 shmem_fault+0x74/0x210 ? filemap_map_pages+0x29c/0x410 __do_fault+0x37/0x190 handle_mm_fault+0x120a/0x1770 exc_page_fault+0x251/0x450 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index ffdc622e5828..5974b449d783 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -7098,6 +7098,9 @@ void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry) VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page); + if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) + return; + if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) return; @@ -7163,6 +7166,9 @@ int mem_cgroup_try_charge_swap(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry) struct mem_cgroup *memcg; unsigned short oldid; + if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) + return 0; + if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) return 0; -- 1.8.3.1