Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] mm: distinguish large folio swap allocation failures

Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.cgroups,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 11:01:12AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 10:51:23PM +0800, Xueyuan Chen wrote:
> > @@ -5550,10 +5558,7 @@ long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> >  
> >  	if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || do_memsw_account())
> >  		return nr_swap_pages;
> > -	for (; !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg); memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))
> > -		nr_swap_pages = min_t(long, nr_swap_pages,
> > -				      READ_ONCE(memcg->swap.max) -
> > -				      page_counter_read(&memcg->swap));
> > +	nr_swap_pages = min(nr_swap_pages, page_counter_margin(&memcg->swap));
> 
> This hunk is unrelated to this patch. Don't mix refactor work with new
> functionality. Make the previous patch a pure refactor job (where you
> add page_counter_margin() and use it here ^), like I had proposed.

I also liked my version of mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages() a bit
better. Please just use my patch, keep the From: and you can add

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
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