[merged mm-stable] mm-do-not-allocate-shrinker-info-with-cgroupmemory=nokmem.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-do-not-allocate-shrinker-info-with-cgroupmemory=nokmem.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: do not allocate shrinker info with cgroup.memory=nokmem
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-do-not-allocate-shrinker-info-with-cgroupmemory=nokmem.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: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Subject: mm: do not allocate shrinker info with cgroup.memory=nokmem
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:38:44 +0100

There'd be no work for memcg-aware shrinkers when kernel memory is not
accounted per cgroup, so we can skip allocating per memcg shrinker data. 
This saves some memory, avoids holding shrinker_mutex with O(nr_memcgs)
and saves work in shrink_slab_memcg().

Then there are SHRINKER_NONSLAB shrinkers which handle non-kernel memory
so nokmem should not disable their per-memcg behavior.  Such shrinkers
(e.g.  deferred_split_shrinker) still need access to per-memcg data (see
also commit 0a432dcbeb32e ("mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on
memcg kmem")).

The savings with this patch come on container hosts that create many
superblocks (each with own shrinker) but tracking and processing per-memcg
data is pointless with nokmem (shrink_slab_memcg() is partially guarded
with !memcg_kmem_online already).

The patch uses "boottime" predicate mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled() (not
memcg_kmem_online()) to avoid mistakenly un-MEMCG_AWARE-ing shrinkers
registered before first non-root memcg is mkdir'd.

[mkoutny@suse.com: update comment, per Qi Zheng]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260309-cgroup-ml-nokmem-shrinker-v2-1-3e7a7eefb6c9@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-cgroup-ml-nokmem-shrinker-v1-1-d703899bdda4@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/shrinker.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/shrinker.c~mm-do-not-allocate-shrinker-info-with-cgroupmemory=nokmem
+++ a/mm/shrinker.c
@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ static int shrinker_memcg_alloc(struct s
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
 		return -ENOSYS;
+	if (mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled() && !(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NONSLAB))
+		return -ENOSYS;
 
 	mutex_lock(&shrinker_mutex);
 	id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, shrinker, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -721,6 +723,7 @@ non_memcg:
 	 *  - non-memcg-aware shrinkers
 	 *  - !CONFIG_MEMCG
 	 *  - memcg is disabled by kernel command line
+	 *  - non-slab shrinkers: when memcg kmem is disabled
 	 */
 	size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred);
 	if (flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mkoutny@suse.com are