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 2/2] mm: zswap: mark the zswap shrinker SHRINKER_NONSLAB
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:35:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904033503.4067283-3-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904033503.4067283-1-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
With kmem accounting disabled (cgroup.memory=nokmem), memcg reclaim
never invokes the zswap shrinker: a cgroup under memory pressure does
not write back its own zswapped pages to make room; they are only
written back by global reclaim or once the global pool limit kicks in.
The zswap shrinker is registered memcg-aware but without
SHRINKER_NONSLAB, so under nokmem it is treated as a slab shrinker:
before commit 03375203e1da ("mm: do not allocate shrinker info with
cgroup.memory=nokmem") it was skipped by the !memcg_kmem_online()
check in shrink_slab_memcg(); since that commit it is demoted to
non-memcg-aware at registration. But the zswap shrinker is not a slab
shrinker: it tracks zswap entries and resolves the owning memcg from
the folio's objcg, independent of kmem accounting.
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].
Mark it SHRINKER_NONSLAB so it keeps its memcg awareness and runs
under memcg reclaim with nokmem.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/697713c4-0857-485b-aba7-c74f37a3c8b4@linux.alibaba.com/
Fixes: b5ba474f3f51 ("zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressure")
Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Qinyun Tan <qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
---
mm/zswap.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index 761cd699e0a3e..8bcc2997d7719 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1263,8 +1263,8 @@ static struct shrinker *zswap_alloc_shrinker(void)
{
struct shrinker *shrinker;
- shrinker =
- shrinker_alloc(SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE, "mm-zswap");
+ shrinker = shrinker_alloc(SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE |
+ SHRINKER_NONSLAB, "mm-zswap");
if (!shrinker)
return NULL;
--
2.43.7
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 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: restore SHRINKER_NONSLAB on the deferred split shrinker Qinyun Tan
2026-09-04 15:17 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-04 3:35 ` Qinyun Tan [this message]
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