[RFC PATCH 14/14] zswap: do not start zswap shrinker if there is no physical swap slots

[Nhat Pham]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 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
-- 
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