From nobody Sat Feb 7 17:55:10 2026 Received: from out-189.mta1.migadu.com (out-189.mta1.migadu.com [95.215.58.189]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76E4E314B93 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2025 23:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=95.215.58.189 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762558864; cv=none; b=bmqjMZlpB5Lo6nuVVSCqPJk2ow3d0ijkpQt+1osWF5zk2bkfvoVgFQgPUI1arfq8PRmJmcHQI3BCGvHdSdBjZ5A2IjCaiiNtBvPS9MK97D+7JYc+Twfgm+SPENjt0UnuNVHTEVZJ8uOBAhTfyNAT3GYg3UjBl3RFsR3WA5byqn4= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762558864; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9DIh0ei5MKefQ/qdF5iYFlmczisqQRwbN9NQUjhQN+k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=U0nRTHgSlB+F6IGojIjCrS5q4L2zAiRtdIjBVJ5mmCtnW4gKPNHSesnugR8mbsXNxiw44+FTiqQeU6ArwvUR0msOgRLZIWvEPZZvjpxIf+5UUSgizK54AGFOGtDgfR5J5PzWTvZPQM3/iyoMC80cSAF+t9fFDMOlgYFPKCOlFyY= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b=CJdquOFk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=95.215.58.189 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b="CJdquOFk" X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.dev; s=key1; t=1762558850; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/IBXXmQT6HU9XyqJOJH4DC8oXV/wM5t8TSqxI0nVn0E=; b=CJdquOFkgso7i4s8SSmNNC0ZzfMELSZNYUpwf6zqIIQ/zYA33bEJWPtRQaUh/8XtjGDUs2 EbwO8BPL4v0NIoBKt6oLehSqCnJw0oTtg/tSr38hP5jijKmVa1O/VCTUrSh5Dm/NaYqI1m Fsqsa5stw7fanplmYSNHUSqMhB5vnPs= From: Shakeel Butt To: Andrew Morton Cc: Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Roman Gushchin , Muchun Song , David Rientjes , Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Meta kernel team Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcg: dump memcg protection info on oom or alloc failures Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 15:40:41 -0800 Message-ID: <20251107234041.3632644-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Currently kernel dumps memory state on oom and allocation failures. One of the question usually raised on those dumps is why the kernel has not reclaimed the reclaimable memory instead of triggering oom. One potential reason is the usage of memory protection provided by memcg. So, let's also dump the memory protected by the memcg in such reports to ease the debugging. Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 5 +++++ mm/memcontrol.c | 13 +++++++++++++ mm/oom_kill.c | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 8d2e250535a8..6861f0ff02b5 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -1779,6 +1779,7 @@ static inline bool memcg_is_dying(struct mem_cgroup *= memcg) return memcg ? css_is_dying(&memcg->css) : false; } =20 +void mem_cgroup_show_protected_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); #else static inline bool mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled(void) { @@ -1850,6 +1851,10 @@ static inline bool memcg_is_dying(struct mem_cgroup = *memcg) { return false; } + +static inline void mem_cgroup_show_protected_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem= cg) +{ +} #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */ =20 #if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && defined(CONFIG_ZSWAP) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index c34029e92bab..623446821b00 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5636,3 +5636,16 @@ bool mem_cgroup_node_allowed(struct mem_cgroup *memc= g, int nid) { return memcg ? cpuset_node_allowed(memcg->css.cgroup, nid) : true; } + +void mem_cgroup_show_protected_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) + return; + + if (!memcg) + memcg =3D root_mem_cgroup; + + pr_warn("Memory cgroup min protection %lukB -- low protection %lukB", + K(atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory.children_min_usage)*PAGE_SIZE), + K(atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory.children_low_usage)*PAGE_SIZE)); +} diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index c145b0feecc1..5eb11fbba704 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc) if (should_dump_unreclaim_slab()) dump_unreclaimable_slab(); } + mem_cgroup_show_protected_memory(oc->memcg); if (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks) dump_tasks(oc); } diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e4efda1158b2..26be5734253f 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3977,6 +3977,7 @@ static void warn_alloc_show_mem(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodem= ask_t *nodemask) filter &=3D ~SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES; =20 __show_mem(filter, nodemask, gfp_zone(gfp_mask)); + mem_cgroup_show_protected_memory(NULL); } =20 void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *fmt, ...) --=20 2.47.3