mm-vmscan-fix-node-reclaim-ignoring-swappiness-parameter.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmscan-fix-node-reclaim-ignoring-swappiness-parameter.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: Ridong Chen <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:24:34 +0800

sc_swappiness() had two separate definitions depending on CONFIG_MEMCG. The !CONFIG_MEMCG variant simply returned vm_swappiness, ignoring the proactive_swappiness value passed through scan_control. This caused the swappiness parameter written to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim to have no effect when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled.

Fix this by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single definition that checks sc->proactive_swappiness first, then falls back to mem_cgroup_swappiness() which already handles both CONFIG_MEMCG and !CONFIG_MEMCG.

Before fix (swappiness=max ignored, mostly file pages reclaimed):

    # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
    60
    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 1840
    pgsteal_anon 25
    pgsteal_file 1815
    # echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 18013
    pgsteal_anon 337
    pgsteal_file 17676

After fix (swappiness=max honored, anon pages reclaimed as expected):

    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 0
    pgsteal_anon 0
    pgsteal_file 0
    # echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 16283
    pgsteal_anon 16283
    pgsteal_file 0

---

 mm/vmscan.c |   19 +++++++------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@ struct scan_control {
  */
 int vm_swappiness = 60;
 
+static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	if (sc->proactive && sc->proactive_swappiness)
+		return *sc->proactive_swappiness;
+	return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 
 /* Returns true for reclaim through cgroup limits or cgroup interfaces. */

@@ -239,13 +246,6 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(st
 #endif
 	return false;
 }
-
-static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	if (sc->proactive && sc->proactive_swappiness)
-		return *sc->proactive_swappiness;
-	return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
-}
 #else
 static bool cgroup_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
 {

@@ -261,11 +261,6 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(st
 {
 	return true;
 }
-
-static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
-}
 #endif
 
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