fs/super: skip non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects in memcg slab shrink

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The super_block shrinker is registered with SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE because its
dentry and inode LRUs are memcg-aware (via list_lru). But the optional
->nr_cached_objects() hooks that the shrinker also drives are not memcg-aware:
btrfs extent maps and xfs inode reclaim operate on filesystem-global
state, and shmem's unused-huge shrinker walks a per-superblock shrinklist.
None of them filter by sc->memcg.

The mismatch shows up under memcg-heavy slab reclaim. shrink_slab_memcg()
calls do_shrink_slab() once per (memcg, NUMA node) pair for every memcg
whose bit is set in the per-superblock shrinker bitmap, which on a busy
host means hundreds of calls per reclaim pass. Each scan queues the same
global shrinker work item that's already kicked from the root path.

Because btrfs/xfs global count is typically non-zero on any in-use filesystem,
the returned total stays positive even if a memcg's own dentry/inode LRUs
are empty. shrink_slab_memcg() therefore never clears the SB shrinker bit
in the memcg bitmap, so subsequent reclaim passes from the same memcg
re-enter super_cache_count() and pay for the global counter walk again.

Restrict ->nr_cached_objects() to the global shrink path (sc->memcg NULL
or root). The memcg-aware dentry/inode LRUs keep being counted and
scanned per memcg as before; only the global fs-specific hooks are skipped.
The root/global shrink path still drives those hooks; only their
invocation from non-root memcg slab reclaim is removed.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609123047.1948242-1-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

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Usama Arif 2026-06-09 05:30:47 -07:00 • committed by Christian Brauner

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