[merged mm-stable] memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: memcg: bail out memory.max when memcg is dying
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Jiayuan Chen <[email protected]>
Subject: memcg: bail out memory.max when memcg is dying
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:02:28 +0800

memory.max has the same high-latency reclaim loop as memory.high, and may
additionally invoke the OOM killer on a cgroup that is already going away,
further delaying its removal.

Mitigate this by bailing out of the loop once memcg_is_dying().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Kairui Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/memcontrol.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4854,6 +4854,10 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct k
 		if (signal_pending(current))
 			break;
 
+		/* cgroup_rmdir() waits for us with cgroup_mutex held. */
+		if (memcg_is_dying(memcg))
+			break;
+
 		if (!drained) {
 			drain_all_stock(memcg);
 			drained = true;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are