The patch titled Subject: mm/swapfile.c: remove the extra check in scan_swap_map_slots() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-swapfilec-remove-the-extra-check-in-scan_swap_map_slots.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swapfilec-remove-the-extra-check-in-scan_swap_map_slots.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swapfilec-remove-the-extra-check-in-scan_swap_map_slots.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/swapfile.c: remove the extra check in scan_swap_map_slots() scan_swap_map_slots() is only called by scan_swap_map() and get_swap_pages(). Both ensure nr would not exceed SWAP_BATCH. Just remove it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200325220309.9803-2-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swapfile.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swapfilec-remove-the-extra-check-in-scan_swap_map_slots +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -740,9 +740,6 @@ static int scan_swap_map_slots(struct sw int latency_ration = LATENCY_LIMIT; int n_ret = 0; - if (nr > SWAP_BATCH) - nr = SWAP_BATCH; - /* * We try to cluster swap pages by allocating them sequentially * in swap. Once we've allocated SWAPFILE_CLUSTER pages this _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are mm-swapfilec-offset-is-only-used-when-there-is-more-slots.patch mm-swapfilec-explicitly-show-ssd-non-ssd-is-handled-mutually-exclusive.patch mm-swapfilec-remove-the-unnecessary-goto-for-ssd-case.patch mm-swapfilec-simplify-the-calculation-of-n_goal.patch mm-swapfilec-remove-the-extra-check-in-scan_swap_map_slots.patch mm-page_allocc-bad_-is-not-necessary-when-pagehwpoison.patch mm-page_allocc-bad_flags-is-not-necessary-for-bad_page.patch mm-page_allocc-rename-free_pages_check_bad-to-check_free_page_bad.patch mm-page_allocc-rename-free_pages_check-to-check_free_page.patch mm-page_allocc-extract-check__page_bad-common-part-to-page_bad_reason.patch mm-page_allocc-use-node_mask_none-in-build_zonelists.patch mm-rename-gfpflags_to_migratetype-to-gfp_migratetype-for-same-convention.patch mm-vmscanc-use-update_lru_size-in-update_lru_sizes.patch