cb731d6 ("vmscan: per memory cgroup slab shrinkers") sought to
optimize accumulating slab reclaim results in sc->nr_reclaimed only
once per zone, but the memcg hierarchy walk itself uses
sc->nr_reclaimed as an exit condition. This can lead to overreclaim.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 27d580b..a02654e 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2441,11 +2441,18 @@ static bool shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct 
scan_control *sc,
                        shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, sc, &lru_pages);
                        zone_lru_pages += lru_pages;
 
-                       if (memcg && is_classzone)
+                       if (memcg && is_classzone) {
                                shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, zone_to_nid(zone),
                                            memcg, sc->nr_scanned - scanned,
                                            lru_pages);
 
+                               if (reclaim_state) {
+                                       sc->nr_reclaimed +=
+                                               reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
+                                       reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
+                               }
+                       }
+
                        /*
                         * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
                         * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
@@ -2467,14 +2474,16 @@ static bool shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct 
scan_control *sc,
                 * Shrink the slab caches in the same proportion that
                 * the eligible LRU pages were scanned.
                 */
-               if (global_reclaim(sc) && is_classzone)
+               if (global_reclaim(sc) && is_classzone) {
                        shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, zone_to_nid(zone), NULL,
                                    sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
                                    zone_lru_pages);
 
-               if (reclaim_state) {
-                       sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
-                       reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
+                       if (reclaim_state) {
+                               sc->nr_reclaimed +=
+                                       reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
+                               reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
+                       }
                }
 
                vmpressure(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
-- 
2.6.1

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