[PATCH v4 15/21] zswap: do not start zswap shrinker if there is no physical swap slots

Nhat Pham
2026-03-18T22:30:31Z

When swap is virtualized, we no longer pre-allocate a slot on swapfile
for each zswap entry. Do not start the zswap shrinker if there is no
physical swap slots available.

Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
---
mm/zswap.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index c5e1d252cb463..9d1822753d321 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1211,6 +1211,14 @@ static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker,
if (!zswap_shrinker_enabled || !mem_cgroup_zswap_writeback_enabled(memcg))
return 0;

+ /*
+ * When swap is virtualized, we do not have any swap slots on swapfile
+ * preallocated for zswap objects. If there is no slot available, we
+ * cannot writeback and should just bail out here.
+ */
+ if (!get_nr_swap_pages())
+ return 0;
+
/*
* The shrinker resumes swap writeback, which will enter block
* and may enter fs. XXX: Harmonize with vmscan.c __GFP_FS
--
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