Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: memcontrol: change val type to long in __mod_memcg_{lruvec_}state()

Qi Zheng
2026-03-27T02:38:26Z

On 3/26/26 10:37 PM, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:19:29 +0000
> "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 10:13:23PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
>>> From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
>>>
>>> The __mod_memcg_state() and __mod_memcg_lruvec_state() functions are also
>>> used to reparent non-hierarchical stats. In this scenario, the values
>>> passed to them are accumulated statistics that might be extremely large
>>> and exceed the upper limit of a 32-bit integer.
>>>
>>> Change the val parameter type from int to long in these functions and
>>> their corresponding tracepoints (memcg_rstat_stats) to prevent potential
>>> overflow issues.
>
> Won't that are be true on 32bit systems?
> Which means the underlying values need to be u64 not long.

On a 32-bit system, such a large number of values ​​should not accumulate.

Furthermore, changing it to u64/s64 would mean modifying
memcg_vmstats_percpu->state and lruvec_stats_percpu->state,
which involves significant changes, so I think it might be unnecessary.

Thanks,
Qi

>
> David
>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
>>
>> LGTM, so:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
>>
>>> ---
>>> include/trace/events/memcg.h | 10 +++++-----
>>> mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++----
>>> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/trace/events/memcg.h b/include/trace/events/memcg.h
>>> index dfe2f51019b4c..51b62c5931fc2 100644
>>> --- a/include/trace/events/memcg.h
>>> +++ b/include/trace/events/memcg.h
>>> @@ -11,14 +11,14 @@
>>>
>>> DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(memcg_rstat_stats,
>>>
>>> - TP_PROTO(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int item, int val),
>>> + TP_PROTO(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int item, long val),
>>>
>>> TP_ARGS(memcg, item, val),
>>>
>>> TP_STRUCT__entry(
>>> __field(u64, id)
>>> __field(int, item)
>>> - __field(int, val)
>>> + __field(long, val)
>>> ),
>>>
>>> TP_fast_assign(
>>> @@ -27,20 +27,20 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(memcg_rstat_stats,
>>> __entry->val = val;
>>> ),
>>>
>>> - TP_printk("memcg_id=%llu item=%d val=%d",
>>> + TP_printk("memcg_id=%llu item=%d val=%ld",
>>> __entry->id, __entry->item, __entry->val)
>>> );
>>>
>>> DEFINE_EVENT(memcg_rstat_stats, mod_memcg_state,
>>>
>>> - TP_PROTO(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int item, int val),
>>> + TP_PROTO(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int item, long val),
>>>
>>> TP_ARGS(memcg, item, val)
>>> );
>>>
>>> DEFINE_EVENT(memcg_rstat_stats, mod_memcg_lruvec_state,
>>>
>>> - TP_PROTO(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int item, int val),
>>> + TP_PROTO(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int item, long val),
>>>
>>> TP_ARGS(memcg, item, val)
>>> );
>>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> index 7fb9cbc10dfbb..4a78550f6174e 100644
>>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ unsigned long lruvec_page_state_local(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>>>
>>> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
>>> static void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn,
>>> - enum node_stat_item idx, int val);
>>> + enum node_stat_item idx, long val);
>>>
>>> void reparent_memcg_lruvec_state_local(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>> struct mem_cgroup *parent, int idx)
>>> @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static int memcg_page_state_unit(int item);
>>> * Normalize the value passed into memcg_rstat_updated() to be in pages. Round
>>> * up non-zero sub-page updates to 1 page as zero page updates are ignored.
>>> */
>>> -static int memcg_state_val_in_pages(int idx, int val)
>>> +static long memcg_state_val_in_pages(int idx, long val)
>>> {
>>> int unit = memcg_page_state_unit(idx);
>>>
>>> @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ static inline void get_non_dying_memcg_end(void)
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> static void __mod_memcg_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>> - enum memcg_stat_item idx, int val)
>>> + enum memcg_stat_item idx, long val)
>>> {
>>> int i = memcg_stats_index(idx);
>>> int cpu;
>>> @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ void reparent_memcg_state_local(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> static void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn,
>>> - enum node_stat_item idx, int val)
>>> + enum node_stat_item idx, long val)
>>> {
>>> struct mem_cgroup *memcg = pn->memcg;
>>> int i = memcg_stats_index(idx);
>>> --
>>> 2.20.1
>>>
>>
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