From 0ef8faff490be6aa1a1e5dfcb0c8492689e91c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Usama Arif Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:35:16 -0700 Subject: fs: push nr_cached_objects memcg gating into individual filesystems Commit 0baad6f9b997 ("fs/super: skip non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects in memcg slab shrink") added a check in fs/super.c that skipped every ->nr_cached_objects() hook whenever the shrinker was invoked for a non-root memcg, on the assumption that none of them honour sc->memcg. That assumption is wrong for XFS, whose inode-reclaim hook is intentionally driven from per-memcg contexts to free memcg-charged slab. Encoding a blanket "never memcg-aware" policy in fs/super.c short-circuits that path. Push the check down into the callbacks whose counters really are irrelevant to per-memcg reclaim - btrfs_nr_cached_objects() and shmem_unused_huge_count() - and drop the fs/super.c gate. Each filesystem can now lift the restriction independently if its counter later grows memcg awareness, without touching fs/super.c. Introduce mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root() in so the callbacks don't open-code "sc->memcg is NULL or root". Fixes: 0baad6f9b997 ("fs/super: skip non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects in memcg slab shrink") Acked-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: Usama Arif Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260715103516.2410175-1-usama.arif@linux.dev Acked-by: David Sterba Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) --- fs/btrfs/super.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c index a7d804219bec..cc4537435399 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -2434,6 +2435,15 @@ static long btrfs_nr_cached_objects(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_contro struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = btrfs_sb(sb); const s64 nr = percpu_counter_read_positive(&fs_info->evictable_extent_maps); + /* + * The evictable extent map counter is filesystem-global and does not + * honour sc->memcg, so it is only meaningful on the global (kswapd or + * root direct reclaim) shrink path. Skip the per-memcg iterations of + * shrink_slab_memcg() to avoid queueing duplicate global work. + */ + if (!mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(sc)) + return 0; + trace_btrfs_extent_map_shrinker_count(fs_info, nr); return nr; -- cgit v1.2.3