[PATCH -v4 1/2] memcg: move mem_cgroup_swappiness and vm_swappiness to mm/swap.h

From: Ridong

Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 23:30:20 EST


From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>

The per-memcg swappiness knob is v1-only; v2 always uses global
vm_swappiness and ignores the per-cgroup field.

Both mem_cgroup_swappiness() and vm_swappiness are only used within
mm/ (memcontrol.c, memcontrol-v1.c, vmscan.c), so move them out of the
public include/linux/swap.h into the mm-private mm/swap.h. This keeps
unrelated declarations out of include/linux/swap.h.

Guard memcg->swappiness with CONFIG_MEMCG_V1 as well, so v2-only
kernels drop the unused field.

No functional change for v1; v2-only kernels drop the unused field.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Song Hu <husong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/swap.h | 19 -------------------
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++--
mm/swap.h | 13 +++++++++++++
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 957260677678..e7a794dfb40e 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -239,8 +239,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
*/
bool oom_group;

- int swappiness;
-
/* memory.events and memory.events.local */
struct cgroup_file events_file;
struct cgroup_file events_local_file;
@@ -318,6 +316,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
/* List of events which userspace want to receive */
struct list_head event_list;
spinlock_t event_list_lock;
+
+ int swappiness;
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_V1 */

struct mem_cgroup_per_node *nodeinfo[];
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 0544b2ec4c56..45f301d73e2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -309,7 +309,6 @@ static inline bool lru_cache_disabled(void)
}

extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
-extern int vm_swappiness;
long remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct folio *folio);

#if defined(CONFIG_SYSFS) && defined(CONFIG_NUMA)
@@ -473,25 +472,7 @@ static inline int add_swap_extent(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
-static inline int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- /* Cgroup2 doesn't have per-cgroup swappiness */
- if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys))
- return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
-
- /* root ? */
- if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
- return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
-
- return READ_ONCE(memcg->swappiness);
-}
-
void lru_reparent_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *parent, int nid);
-#else
-static inline int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
-}
#endif

#if defined(CONFIG_SWAP) && defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && defined(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 8319ad8c5c23..6864b76456fb 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include "internal.h"
+#include "swap.h"
#include "swap_table.h"
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/ip.h>
@@ -4176,11 +4177,10 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
#endif
page_counter_set_high(&memcg->swap, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
if (parent) {
- WRITE_ONCE(memcg->swappiness, mem_cgroup_swappiness(parent));
-
page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, &parent->memory, memcg_on_dfl);
page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, &parent->swap, false);
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
+ WRITE_ONCE(memcg->swappiness, mem_cgroup_swappiness(parent));
memcg->memory.track_failcnt = !memcg_on_dfl;
WRITE_ONCE(memcg->oom_kill_disable, READ_ONCE(parent->oom_kill_disable));
page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem, false);
diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h
index abd26588abd2..d077e5893a42 100644
--- a/mm/swap.h
+++ b/mm/swap.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@

#include <linux/atomic.h> /* for atomic_long_t */
#include <linux/mm.h> /* for PAGE_SHIFT */
+#include <linux/memcontrol.h> /* for mem_cgroup_swappiness() */

struct mempolicy;
struct swap_iocb;
@@ -99,6 +100,18 @@ struct swap_ops {
void (*submit_read)(struct swap_io_ctx *ctx);
};

+extern int vm_swappiness;
+
+static inline int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
+ if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) &&
+ !mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
+ return READ_ONCE(memcg->swappiness);
+#endif
+ return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
#include <linux/swapops.h> /* for swp_offset */
#include <linux/blk_types.h> /* for bio_end_io_t */
--
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