+ mm-zswap-fix-global-shrinker-when-memory-cgroup-is-disabled.patch added to mm-new branch

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/zswap: fix global shrinker when memory cgroup is disabled
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-zswap-fix-global-shrinker-when-memory-cgroup-is-disabled.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-zswap-fix-global-shrinker-when-memory-cgroup-is-disabled.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Hao Jia <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/zswap: fix global shrinker when memory cgroup is disabled
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:42:05 +0800

Patch series "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink", v3.

This series fixes and improves the zswap global shrinker
(shrink_worker()).


This patch (of 2):

Zswap writeback when the global pool limit is hit fails when memory
cgroup is disabled. The pool remains full until it is organically
drained by swapins or memory freeing, leading to zswap store failures
and pages bypassing getting written directly to the backing swap device,
causing LRU inversion (hotter pages with higher fault latency).

This happens because mem_cgroup_iter() always returns NULL when
memory cgroups are disabled. As a result, the global shrinker
shrink_worker() repeatedly takes empty walks. After MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES
failed attempts, the worker gives up without writing back any pages.

Therefore, when memory cgroup is disabled, fall through with the !memcg
branch and shrink the root memcg directly.

With memcg disabled, shrink_memcg() only returns -ENOENT when the root
LRU is empty, which means the total pages are already below thr. In the
absence of heavy concurrent zswap stores, the loop then safely bails out
via the zswap_total_pages() <= thr check; otherwise, it will resume
shrinking the memcg after processing the reschedule check. For any other
return value from shrink_memcg(), the loop is guaranteed to terminate,
either after MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES failures or once the threshold is met.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: a65b0e7607cc ("zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware")
Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO9r8zPVzMKFbCixxD-qgtRrkFxWVrHiZZeLc=eyTPKPVQgX4g@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Chengming Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Koutný <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/zswap.c |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/zswap.c~mm-zswap-fix-global-shrinker-when-memory-cgroup-is-disabled
+++ a/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1358,11 +1358,12 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_st
 		} while (memcg && !mem_cgroup_tryget_online(memcg));
 		spin_unlock(&zswap_shrink_lock);
 
-		if (!memcg) {
-			/*
-			 * Continue shrinking without incrementing failures if
-			 * we found candidate memcgs in the last tree walk.
-			 */
+		/*
+		 * A NULL memcg ends a full hierarchy pass (except when memcg is
+		 * disabled, where it is always NULL: fall through to the root LRU).
+		 * Count a failure only if the last pass found no candidates.
+		 */
+		if (!memcg && !mem_cgroup_disabled()) {
 			if (!attempts && ++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
 				break;
 
@@ -1381,7 +1382,7 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_st
 		 * and failures.
 		 */
 		if (ret == -ENOENT)
-			continue;
+			goto resched;
 		++attempts;
 
 		if (ret && ++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-zswap-fix-global-shrinker-when-memory-cgroup-is-disabled.patch
mm-zswap-support-batch-writeback-in-shrink_memcg.patch