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Generally memcg charging is allowed from all the contexts including NMI
where even spinning on spinlock can cause locking issues. However one
call chain was missed during the addition of memcg charging from any
context support. That is try_charge_memcg() -> memcg_memory_event() ->
cgroup_file_notify().
The possible function call tree under cgroup_file_notify() can acquire
many different spin locks in spinning mode. Some of them are
cgroup_file_kn_lock, kernfs_notify_lock, pool_workqeue's lock. So, let's
just skip cgroup_file_notify() from memcg charging if the context does not
allow spinning.
Alternative approach was also explored where instead of skipping
cgroup_file_notify(), we defer the memcg event processing to irq_work [1].
However it adds complexity and it was decided to keep things simple until
we need more memcg events with !allow_spinning requirement.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5qi2llyzf7gklncflo6gxoozljbm4h3tpnuv4u4ej4ztysvi6f@x44v7nz2wdzd/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922220203.261714-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Fixes: 3ac4638a73 ("memcg: make memcg_rstat_updated nmi safe")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250905061919.439648-1-yepeilin@google.com/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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