From: Qinyun Tan <qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
shakeel.butt@linux.dev, muchun.song@linux.dev, mkoutny@suse.com,
david@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
usama.arif@linux.dev, david@fromorbit.com, qi.zheng@linux.dev,
yosry@kernel.org, nphamcs@gmail.com, chengming.zhou@linux.dev,
xlpang@linux.alibaba.com, ryncsn@gmail.com, gourry@gourry.net,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Qinyun Tan <qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/5] mm: thp: restore SHRINKER_NONSLAB on the deferred split shrinker
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:12:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261013031221.1997194-5-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261013031221.1997194-1-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com>
On a system booted with cgroup.memory=nokmem, the deferred split
shrinker is 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.
The shrinker has carried SHRINKER_NONSLAB since commit 0a432dcbeb32
("mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg kmem") precisely
so it would keep working with kmem accounting disabled. Commit
fafaeceb89a5 ("mm: switch deferred split shrinker to list_lru")
dropped it knowingly: under nokmem the list_lru collapses into a
shared per-node list while __list_lru_add() still sets the shrinker
bit on whichever memcg happens to add the first item, and with the
flag set the shrinker would run twice per reclaim cycle.
NONSLAB-backed lrus keep their per-memcg lists under nokmem now, so
the shrinker bit identifies the owning memcg again. Restore the
flag.
This was noticed by Michal during review of the patch "mm/list_lru:
don't copy stale shrinker id from non-memcg-aware shrinkers".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ah9PGv12mqai84ES@cmpxchg.org/
Link: 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>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
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 a62d6592af7e..4ddbbdbfcc2d 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1059,7 +1059,8 @@ 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:[~2026-10-13 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-13 3:12 [PATCH v4 0/5] mm: restore per-memcg reclaim for NONSLAB shrinkers under nokmem Qinyun Tan
2026-10-13 3:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] mm: list_lru: pass the memcg index directly to the walker Qinyun Tan
2026-10-13 3:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] mm: memcontrol: drop kmemcg_id and use mem_cgroup_id() for list_lru indexing Qinyun Tan
2026-10-13 3:12 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] mm: list_lru: keep per-memcg lists with nokmem for NONSLAB-backed lrus Qinyun Tan
2026-10-13 3:12 ` Qinyun Tan [this message]
2026-10-13 3:12 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] mm: zswap: mark the zswap shrinker SHRINKER_NONSLAB Qinyun Tan
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20261013031221.1997194-5-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com \
--to=qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com \
--cc=cgroups@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=chengming.zhou@linux.dev \
--cc=david@fromorbit.com \
--cc=david@kernel.org \
--cc=gourry@gourry.net \
--cc=hannes@cmpxchg.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=mhocko@kernel.org \
--cc=mkoutny@suse.com \
--cc=muchun.song@linux.dev \
--cc=nphamcs@gmail.com \
--cc=qi.zheng@linux.dev \
--cc=roman.gushchin@linux.dev \
--cc=ryncsn@gmail.com \
--cc=shakeel.butt@linux.dev \
--cc=usama.arif@linux.dev \
--cc=xlpang@linux.alibaba.com \
--cc=yosry@kernel.org \
--cc=ziy@nvidia.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®