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 15429825d667..f2f412cc1911 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1277,6 +1277,14 @@ 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 (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VIRTUAL_SWAP) && !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
--
2.47.1