[PATCH 3/3] mm/zswap: Add per-memcg stat for proactive writeback

From: Hao Jia

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 06:56:03 EST


From: Hao Jia <jiahao1@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently, zswap writeback can be triggered by either the pool limit
being hit or by the proactive writeback mechanism. However, the
existing 'zswpwb' metric in memory.stat and /proc/vmstat counts all
written back pages, making it difficult to distinguish between pages
written back due to the pool limit and those written back proactively.

Add a new statistic 'zswpwb_proactive' to memory.stat and /proc/vmstat.
This counter tracks the number of pages written back due to proactive
writeback. This allows users to better monitor and tune the proactive
writeback mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 4 ++++
include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 +
mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
mm/zswap.c | 11 +++++++++--
5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 05b664b3b3e8..29a189b18efc 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1734,6 +1734,10 @@ The following nested keys are defined.
zswpwb
Number of pages written from zswap to swap.

+ zswpwb_proactive
+ Number of pages written from zswap to swap by proactive
+ writeback. This is a subset of zswpwb.
+
zswap_incomp
Number of incompressible pages currently stored in zswap
without compression. These pages could not be compressed to
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
index 03fe95f5a020..7a5bee0a20b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
ZSWPIN,
ZSWPOUT,
ZSWPWB,
+ ZSWPWB_PROACTIVE,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
DIRECT_MAP_LEVEL2_SPLIT,
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ba7f7b1954a8..830d895e77c3 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ static const unsigned int memcg_vm_event_stat[] = {
ZSWPIN,
ZSWPOUT,
ZSWPWB,
+ ZSWPWB_PROACTIVE,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
THP_FAULT_ALLOC,
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index f534972f517d..66fd06d1bb01 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1452,6 +1452,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
[I(ZSWPIN)] = "zswpin",
[I(ZSWPOUT)] = "zswpout",
[I(ZSWPWB)] = "zswpwb",
+ [I(ZSWPWB_PROACTIVE)] = "zswpwb_proactive",
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
[I(DIRECT_MAP_LEVEL2_SPLIT)] = "direct_map_level2_splits",
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index 1173ac6836fa..bf23c46e838e 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1048,7 +1048,8 @@ static bool zswap_decompress(struct zswap_entry *entry, struct folio *folio)
* freed.
*/
static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry,
- swp_entry_t swpentry)
+ swp_entry_t swpentry,
+ bool proactive)
{
struct xarray *tree;
pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(swpentry);
@@ -1108,6 +1109,12 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry,
if (entry->objcg)
count_objcg_events(entry->objcg, ZSWPWB, 1);

+ if (proactive) {
+ count_vm_event(ZSWPWB_PROACTIVE);
+ if (entry->objcg)
+ count_objcg_events(entry->objcg, ZSWPWB_PROACTIVE, 1);
+ }
+
zswap_entry_free(entry);

/* folio is up to date */
@@ -1223,7 +1230,7 @@ static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_o
*/
spin_unlock(&l->lock);

- writeback_result = zswap_writeback_entry(entry, swpentry);
+ writeback_result = zswap_writeback_entry(entry, swpentry, proactive_wb);

if (writeback_result) {
zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++;
--
2.34.1