diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index a7d804219bec..cc4537435399 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
 #include <linux/magic.h>
+#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/crc32c.h>
@@ -2434,6 +2435,15 @@ static long btrfs_nr_cached_objects(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_contro
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = btrfs_sb(sb);
 	const s64 nr = percpu_counter_read_positive(&fs_info->evictable_extent_maps);
 
+	/*
+	 * The evictable extent map counter is filesystem-global and does not
+	 * honour sc->memcg, so it is only meaningful on the global (kswapd or
+	 * root direct reclaim) shrink path. Skip the per-memcg iterations of
+	 * shrink_slab_memcg() to avoid queueing duplicate global work.
+	 */
+	if (!mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(sc))
+		return 0;
+
 	trace_btrfs_extent_map_shrinker_count(fs_info, nr);
 
 	return nr;
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index e1f46a0016fc..5407e4200460 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -520,6 +520,22 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_is_root(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	return (memcg == root_mem_cgroup);
 }
 
+/**
+ * mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root - is this a global or root-memcg shrink invocation?
+ * @sc: shrink_control describing the current shrinker call
+ *
+ * Returns true when @sc represents a global reclaim shrink (sc->memcg == NULL)
+ * or a root-memcg shrink, i.e. not a per-memcg iteration of
+ * shrink_slab_memcg(). Filesystems whose ->nr_cached_objects()/
+ * ->free_cached_objects() implementations operate on filesystem-global state
+ * and do not honour sc->memcg can use this to early-return 0 in per-memcg
+ * contexts.
+ */
+static inline bool mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(struct shrink_control *sc)
+{
+	return !sc->memcg || mem_cgroup_is_root(sc->memcg);
+}
+
 static inline bool obj_cgroup_is_root(const struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
 {
 	return objcg->is_root;
@@ -1071,6 +1087,11 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_is_root(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	return true;
 }
 
+static inline bool mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(struct shrink_control *sc)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+
 static inline bool obj_cgroup_is_root(const struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
 {
 	return true;
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b51f83c970bb..9001aaf3b7b9 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -846,6 +846,16 @@ static long shmem_unused_huge_count(struct super_block *sb,
 		struct shrink_control *sc)
 {
 	struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(sb);
+
+	/*
+	 * The per-superblock shrinklist is filesystem-global and does not
+	 * honour sc->memcg, so it is only meaningful on the global (kswapd or
+	 * root direct reclaim) shrink path. Skip the per-memcg iterations of
+	 * shrink_slab_memcg() to avoid queueing duplicate global work.
+	 */
+	if (!mem_cgroup_shrink_is_root(sc))
+		return 0;
+
 	return READ_ONCE(sbinfo->shrinklist_len);
 }
 #else /* !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */