mm-let-node_reclaim-return-the-number-of-pages-reclaimed.patch removed from -mm tree
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: let node_reclaim() return the number of pages reclaimed
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-let-node_reclaim-return-the-number-of-pages-reclaimed.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: let node_reclaim() return the number of pages reclaimed
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:23:00 +0200
There is only one caller, get_page_from_freelist(), and it does not make any use of the reason for skipping the reclaim, nor does it make any distinction between a full and partially successful reclaim.
Therefore, node_reclaim() can simply return the number of pages that have been reclaimed, same as __node_reclaim(), and the NODE_RECLAIM_xxx macros can be removed.
There is one small change of behavior when __node_reclaim() was attempted but returned zero. The allocation now skips the zone immediately; before this patch, the zone watermarks were checked first. I believe it was an oversight rather than intention, because the chances that zone watermark is OK after __node_reclaim() did not reclaim any pages are very close to zero.
Originally, I was looking for occurences of NODE_RECLAIM_SOME and NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS, but I couldn't find any. That's because they are typecast from the result of a relational operator. This seemed a bit fragile, so I dug a bit deeper and came up with this proposed cleanup.
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mm/internal.h | 14 +++++--------- mm/page_alloc.c | 19 ++++--------------- mm/vmscan.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
mm/internal.h renamed from mm/internal.h~mm-let-node_reclaim-return-the-number-of-pages-reclaimed +5 -9
@@ -1098,23 +1098,19 @@ static inline void mlock_drain_local(voistatic inline void mlock_drain_remote (int cpu) { }#endif /* !CONFIG_MMU */ -#define NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN -2 -#define NODE_RECLAIM_FULL -1 -#define NODE_RECLAIM_SOME 0 -#define NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS 1 -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA extern int node_reclaim_mode; -extern int node_reclaim (struct pglist_data *,gfp_t ,unsigned int ); +extern unsigned long node_reclaim (struct pglist_data *pgdat, +gfp_t gfp_mask,unsigned int order);extern int find_next_best_node (int node,nodemask_t *used_node_mask);#else #define node_reclaim_mode 0 -static inline int node_reclaim (struct pglist_data *pgdat,gfp_t mask, -unsigned int order) +static inline unsigned long node_reclaim (struct pglist_data *pgdat, +gfp_t mask,unsigned int order) { -return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN ; +return 0 ; }static inline int find_next_best_node (int node,nodemask_t *used_node_mask) {
mm/page_alloc.c renamed from mm/page_alloc.c~mm-let-node_reclaim-return-the-number-of-pages-reclaimed +4 -15
@@ -3908,8 +3908,6 @@ check_alloc_wmark:if (!zone_watermark_fast (zone, order, mark, ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags, gfp_mask)) { -int ret; -if (cond_accept_memory (zone, order, alloc_flags)) goto try_this_zone;
@@ -3930,22 +3928,13 @@ check_alloc_wmark: !zone_allows_reclaim(zonelist_zone(ac->preferred_zoneref), zone)) continue; - ret =node_reclaim (zone->zone_pgdat, gfp_mask, order); -switch (ret) { -case NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN : -/* did not scan */ -continue ; -case NODE_RECLAIM_FULL : -/* scanned but unreclaimable */ +if (!node_reclaim (zone->zone_pgdat, gfp_mask, order))continue ; -default : -/* did we reclaim enough */ -if (zone_watermark_ok (zone, order, mark, - ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags)) - goto try_this_zone; +/* did we reclaim enough */ +if (!zone_watermark_ok (zone, order, mark, + ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags))continue ; - } } try_this_zone:
mm/vmscan.c renamed from mm/vmscan.c~mm-let-node_reclaim-return-the-number-of-pages-reclaimed +8 -8
@@ -7773,9 +7773,9 @@ static unsigned long __node_reclaim(strureturn sc->nr_reclaimed; } -int node_reclaim (struct pglist_data *pgdat,gfp_t gfp_mask,unsigned int order) +unsigned long node_reclaim (struct pglist_data *pgdat,gfp_t gfp_mask,unsigned int order) { -int ret; +unsigned long ret;/* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */ const unsigned long nr_pages =1 << order;struct scan_control sc = {
@@ -7802,13 +7802,13 @@ int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdif (node_pagecache_reclaimable (pgdat) <= pgdat->min_unmapped_pages &&node_page_state_pages (pgdat,NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B ) <= pgdat->min_slab_pages) -return NODE_RECLAIM_FULL ; +return 0 ;/* * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed. */ if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking (gfp_mask) || (current->flags &PF_MEMALLOC )) -return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN ; +return 0 ;/* * Only run node reclaim on the local node or on nodes that do not
@@ -7817,15 +7817,15 @@ int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgd* as wide as possible. */ if (node_state (pgdat->node_id,N_CPU ) && pgdat->node_id !=numa_node_id ()) -return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN ; +return 0 ;if (test_and_set_bit_lock (PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED , &pgdat->flags)) -return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN ; +return 0 ; - ret =__node_reclaim (pgdat, gfp_mask, nr_pages, &sc) >= nr_pages; + ret =__node_reclaim (pgdat, gfp_mask, nr_pages, &sc);clear_bit_unlock (PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED , &pgdat->flags); -if (ret) +if (ret >= nr_pages)count_vm_event (PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS );else count_vm_event (PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED );
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