From: Qinyun Tan <qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"David Hildenbrand" <david@kernel.org>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes" <ljs@kernel.org>, "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>,
"Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
"Nico Pache" <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
"Ryan Roberts" <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
"Dev Jain" <dev.jain@arm.com>, "Barry Song" <baohua@kernel.org>,
"Lance Yang" <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
"Usama Arif" <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry@kernel.org>, "Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
"Chengming Zhou" <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
"Kairui Song" <kasong@tencent.com>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
"Xunlei Pang" <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Qinyun Tan" <qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: restore SHRINKER_NONSLAB on the deferred split shrinker
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:35:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904033503.4067283-2-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904033503.4067283-1-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
On a system booted with cgroup.memory=nokmem, the deferred split
shrinker is quietly demoted to a non-memcg-aware one. As a result,
partially unmapped THPs are only split under global reclaim; memcg
(limit-induced) reclaim never splits them, so a cgroup under memory
pressure keeps its underused THPs intact.
This is a regression from commit fafaeceb89a5 ("mm: switch deferred
split shrinker to list_lru"), which re-registered the shrinker without
SHRINKER_NONSLAB. The shrinker had carried this flag since commit
0a432dcbeb32 ("mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg kmem")
precisely so it would keep working with kmem accounting disabled.
Without the flag, shrinker_memcg_alloc() fails with -ENOSYS under
nokmem and the shrinker loses its memcg awareness.
This was noticed by Michal during review of the patch "mm/list_lru:
don't copy stale shrinker id from non-memcg-aware shrinkers" [1].
Restore the flag.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/697713c4-0857-485b-aba7-c74f37a3c8b4@linux.alibaba.com/
Fixes: fafaeceb89a5 ("mm: switch deferred split shrinker to list_lru")
Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Qinyun Tan <qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 644d6905b49cc..16f9aa5b2d077 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1022,7 +1022,8 @@ int folio_memcg_alloc_deferred(struct folio *folio)
static int __init thp_shrinker_init(void)
{
deferred_split_shrinker = shrinker_alloc(SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE |
- SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE,
+ SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE |
+ SHRINKER_NONSLAB,
"thp-deferred_split");
if (!deferred_split_shrinker)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.43.7
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-04 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-04 3:35 [PATCH 0/2] mm: restore SHRINKER_NONSLAB on THP and zswap shrinkers Qinyun Tan
2026-09-04 3:35 ` Qinyun Tan [this message]
2026-09-04 15:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: restore SHRINKER_NONSLAB on the deferred split shrinker Zi Yan
2026-09-04 3:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: zswap: mark the zswap shrinker SHRINKER_NONSLAB Qinyun Tan
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