From 641aade99f06df0037e52b5c81645461b7132947 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:03:25 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] fs: fix missed removal of super_fs_objects_eligible() Commit 0ef8faff490be ("fs: push nr_cached_objects memcg gating into individual filesystems") was meant to drop the blanket memcg gate in fs/super.c and let each ->nr_cached_objects() implementation decide for itself whether it is meaningful in per-memcg reclaim. However, when that patch was applied the removal of super_fs_objects_eligible() and its two call sites in super_cache_scan() / super_cache_count() was lost, so the helper is still gating every ->nr_cached_objects() hook and 0ef8faff490be is effectively a no-op. Consequences of the leftover gate: - XFS's inode-reclaim hook, which is intentionally driven from per-memcg contexts to free memcg-charged slab, is still short-circuited in fs/super.c exactly the regression from commit 0baad6f9b997 ("fs/super: skip non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects in memcg slab shrink") that 0ef8faff490be was written to undo. Memcg-charged XFS inode slab therefore keeps piling up under per-memcg pressure until global reclaim kicks in. - Any future ->nr_cached_objects()/->free_cached_objects() that grows memcg awareness is likewise blocked before it can run, so filesystems cannot opt in to per-memcg reclaim on their own defeating the whole point of pushing the gating decision down into the callbacks. Drop the leftover helper and its call sites so the intent of 0ef8faff490be actually takes effect. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1786955972.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3b038d373c70ebac7cdabfb0035bb91d1d6e6cfe.1786955972.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260715103516.2410175-1-usama.arif@linux.dev/ [0] Fixes: 0ef8faff490b ("fs: push nr_cached_objects memcg gating into individual filesystems") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Acked-by: Usama Arif Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/super.c | 18 ++---------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 05e443173038..3ecce24328f6 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -171,19 +171,6 @@ static void super_wake(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int flag) wake_up_var(&sb->s_flags); } -/* - * The s_op->nr_cached_objects hooks (used for example by btrfs and xfs) - * operate on filesystem-global state and ignore sc->memcg. Driving them - * from per-memcg shrink_slab_memcg() invocations only burns CPU walking - * per-cpu counters and queueing duplicate work: the actual reclaim happens on - * the global path (kswapd or root direct reclaim) regardless. Restrict them - * to that path. - */ -static inline bool super_fs_objects_eligible(struct shrink_control *sc) -{ - return !sc->memcg || mem_cgroup_is_root(sc->memcg); -} - /* * One thing we have to be careful of with a per-sb shrinker is that we don't * drop the last active reference to the superblock from within the shrinker. @@ -213,7 +200,7 @@ static unsigned long super_cache_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, if (!super_trylock_shared(sb)) return SHRINK_STOP; - if (sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects && super_fs_objects_eligible(sc)) + if (sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects) fs_objects = sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects(sb, sc); inodes = list_lru_shrink_count(&sb->s_inode_lru, sc); @@ -274,8 +261,7 @@ static unsigned long super_cache_count(struct shrinker *shrink, return 0; smp_rmb(); - if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects && - super_fs_objects_eligible(sc)) + if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects) total_objects = sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects(sb, sc); total_objects += list_lru_shrink_count(&sb->s_dentry_lru, sc);