The patch titled Subject: memcg: bypass root memcg check for skmem charging has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is memcg-bypass-root-memcg-check-for-skmem-charging.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memcg-bypass-root-memcg-check-for-skmem-charging.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: bypass root memcg check for skmem charging Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:23:54 -0800 The root memcg is never associated with a socket in mem_cgroup_sk_alloc, so there is no need to check if the given memcg is root for the skmem charging code path. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228022354.2624249-1-shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-bypass-root-memcg-check-for-skmem-charging +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4888,7 +4888,7 @@ bool mem_cgroup_charge_skmem(struct mem_ if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) return memcg1_charge_skmem(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask); - if (try_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, nr_pages) == 0) { + if (try_charge_memcg(memcg, gfp_mask, nr_pages) == 0) { mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, nr_pages); return true; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx are memcg-add-hierarchical-effective-limits-for-v2.patch memcg-dont-call-propagate_protected_usage-for-v1.patch page_counter-track-failcnt-only-for-legacy-cgroups.patch page_counter-reduce-struct-page_counter-size.patch memcg-bypass-root-memcg-check-for-skmem-charging.patch