Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: shmem: make unused huge shrinker memcg aware

Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kvack.linux-mm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 8/17/26 5:03 PM, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
> 
> The shmem unused huge shrinker keeps a per-superblock list of inodes whose
> tail huge folio extends beyond i_size. Since that list is not memcg aware,
> reclaim triggered by one memcg can scan inodes from the whole superblock
> and split shmem huge folios charged to unrelated memcgs.
> 
> Convert the shrink list to a memcg-aware list_lru. Queue each inode on the
> list_lru sublist matching the memcg and node of the current tail huge
> folio, so non-root memcg reclaim only walks candidates charged to the
> reclaiming memcg. Global reclaim, root memcg reclaim and shmem quota
> reclaim keep global semantics.
> 
> Rather than pinning a struct mem_cgroup reference in shmem_inode_info,
> store a struct obj_cgroup reference instead.  The list_lru add and delete
> paths resolve the current memcg from the objcg under RCU, so that memcg
> offline and list_lru entry migration remain consistent: list_lru migrates
> entries to the parent memcg sublist on offline, and obj_cgroup_memcg()
> follows the same reparenting, ensuring the correct sublist is always found
> at delete time.  This avoids pinning a dying memcg through a long-lived
> CSS reference.
> 
> The list_lru still tracks inodes while the actual split target is the
> current tail huge folio, so validate the folio memcg/node during scan. If
> the folio no longer matches the reclaim context or splitting cannot
> proceed, requeue the inode according to the current tail folio; if the
> inode is no longer shrinkable, drop the scan entry.
> 
> This can be tested with the shrinker debugfs interface by allocating 32
> tmpfs tail THPs in each of two memcgs, then scanning the sb-tmpfs shrinker
> with memcg A's cgroup id:
> 
>                 before A scan    after A scan
>    base         A=64M, B=64M     A=64M, B=64M (per-memcg count is skipped)
>    patched      A=64M, B=64M     A=0,   B=64M
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
> ---

Nothing else jumped out at me. Thanks.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
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