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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 <linux/memcontrol.h> so the callbacks don't open-code "sc->memcg is NULL or root".

Usama Arif committed 4 months ago

Commit 0ef8faf1 parent 62d98533 files · +41 −0Browse files

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  1. fs/btrfs/super.c +10 −0
  2. include/linux/memcontrol.h +21 −0
  3. mm/shmem.c +10 −0
fs/btrfs/super.c+10−0
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ · 21 unmodified lines
2222 #include <linux/namei.h>
2323 #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
2424 #include <linux/magic.h>
25+#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
2526 #include <linux/slab.h>
2627 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
2728 #include <linux/crc32c.h>
@@ -2434,6 +2435,15 @@ static long btrfs_nr_cached_objects(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_contro · 2406 unmodified lines
24342435 struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = btrfs_sb(sb);
24352436 const s64 nr = percpu_counter_read_positive(&fs_info->evictable_extent_maps);
24362437
2438+ /*
2439+ * The evictable extent map counter is filesystem-global and does not
2440+ * honour sc->memcg, so it is only meaningful on the global (kswapd or
2441+ * root direct reclaim) shrink path. Skip the per-memcg iterations of
2442+ * shrink_slab_memcg() to avoid queueing duplicate global work.
2443+ */
2444+ if (!mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(sc))
2445+ return 0;
2446+
24372447 trace_btrfs_extent_map_shrinker_count(fs_info, nr);
24382448
24392449 return nr;
include/linux/memcontrol.h+21−0
@@ -520,6 +520,22 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_is_root(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) · 519 unmodified lines
520520 return (memcg == root_mem_cgroup);
521521 }
522522
523+/**
524+ * mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root - is this a global or root-memcg shrink invocation?
525+ * @sc: shrink_control describing the current shrinker call
526+ *
527+ * Returns true when @sc represents a global reclaim shrink (sc->memcg == NULL)
528+ * or a root-memcg shrink, i.e. not a per-memcg iteration of
529+ * shrink_slab_memcg(). Filesystems whose ->nr_cached_objects()/
530+ * ->free_cached_objects() implementations operate on filesystem-global state
531+ * and do not honour sc->memcg can use this to early-return 0 in per-memcg
532+ * contexts.
533+ */
534+static inline bool mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(struct shrink_control *sc)
535+{
536+ return !sc->memcg || mem_cgroup_is_root(sc->memcg);
537+}
538+
523539 static inline bool obj_cgroup_is_root(const struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
524540 {
525541 return objcg->is_root;
@@ -1071,6 +1087,11 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_is_root(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) · 545 unmodified lines
10711087 return true;
10721088 }
10731089
1090+static inline bool mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(struct shrink_control *sc)
1091+{
1092+ return true;
1093+}
1094+
10741095 static inline bool obj_cgroup_is_root(const struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
10751096 {
10761097 return true;
mm/shmem.c+10−0
@@ -846,6 +846,16 @@ static long shmem_unused_huge_count(struct super_block *sb, · 845 unmodified lines
846846 struct shrink_control *sc)
847847 {
848848 struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(sb);
849+
850+ /*
851+ * The per-superblock shrinklist is filesystem-global and does not
852+ * honour sc->memcg, so it is only meaningful on the global (kswapd or
853+ * root direct reclaim) shrink path. Skip the per-memcg iterations of
854+ * shrink_slab_memcg() to avoid queueing duplicate global work.
855+ */
856+ if (!mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(sc))
857+ return 0;
858+
849859 return READ_ONCE(sbinfo->shrinklist_len);
850860 }
851861 #else /* !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */