The patch titled Subject: mm/fs: delete PF_SWAPWRITE has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-fs-delete-pf_swapwrite.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/fs: delete PF_SWAPWRITE PF_SWAPWRITE has been redundant since v3.2 commit ee72886d8ed5 ("mm: vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim"). Coincidentally, NeilBrown's current patch "remove inode_congested()" deletes may_write_to_inode(), which appeared to be the one function which took notice of PF_SWAPWRITE. But if you study the old logic, and the conditions under which may_write_to_inode() was called, you discover that flag and function have been pointless for a decade. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/75e80e7-742d-e3bd-531-614db8961e4@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 3 --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 1 - mm/migrate.c | 7 ------- mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++------ 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c~mm-fs-delete-pf_swapwrite +++ a/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -2197,7 +2197,6 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work) long pages_written; set_worker_desc("flush-%s", bdi_dev_name(wb->bdi)); - current->flags |= PF_SWAPWRITE; if (likely(!current_is_workqueue_rescuer() || !test_bit(WB_registered, &wb->state))) { @@ -2226,8 +2225,6 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work) wb_wakeup(wb); else if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb) && dirty_writeback_interval) wb_wakeup_delayed(wb); - - current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPWRITE; } /* --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c~mm-fs-delete-pf_swapwrite +++ a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c @@ -2818,7 +2818,7 @@ xfs_btree_split_worker( * in any way. */ if (args->kswapd) - new_pflags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD; + new_pflags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_KSWAPD; current_set_flags_nested(&pflags, new_pflags); xfs_trans_set_context(args->cur->bc_tp); --- a/include/linux/sched.h~mm-fs-delete-pf_swapwrite +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1689,7 +1689,6 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid; * I am cleaning dirty pages from some other bdi. */ #define PF_KTHREAD 0x00200000 /* I am a kernel thread */ #define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00400000 /* Randomize virtual address space */ -#define PF_SWAPWRITE 0x00800000 /* Allowed to write to swap */ #define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000 /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_mask */ #define PF_MCE_EARLY 0x08000000 /* Early kill for mce process policy */ #define PF_MEMALLOC_PIN 0x10000000 /* Allocation context constrained to zones which allow long term pinning. */ --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-fs-delete-pf_swapwrite +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -1350,7 +1350,6 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from bool is_thp = false; struct page *page; struct page *page2; - int swapwrite = current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE; int rc, nr_subpages; LIST_HEAD(ret_pages); LIST_HEAD(thp_split_pages); @@ -1359,9 +1358,6 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from trace_mm_migrate_pages_start(mode, reason); - if (!swapwrite) - current->flags |= PF_SWAPWRITE; - thp_subpage_migration: for (pass = 0; pass < 10 && (retry || thp_retry); pass++) { retry = 0; @@ -1516,9 +1512,6 @@ out: trace_mm_migrate_pages(nr_succeeded, nr_failed_pages, nr_thp_succeeded, nr_thp_failed, nr_thp_split, mode, reason); - if (!swapwrite) - current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPWRITE; - if (ret_succeeded) *ret_succeeded = nr_succeeded; --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-fs-delete-pf_swapwrite +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4457,7 +4457,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place). */ - tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD; + tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_KSWAPD; set_freezable(); WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0); @@ -4508,7 +4508,7 @@ kswapd_try_sleep: goto kswapd_try_sleep; } - tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD); + tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_KSWAPD); return 0; } @@ -4749,11 +4749,8 @@ static int __node_reclaim(struct pglist_ fs_reclaim_acquire(sc.gfp_mask); /* * We need to be able to allocate from the reserves for RECLAIM_UNMAP - * and we also need to be able to write out pages for RECLAIM_WRITE - * and RECLAIM_UNMAP. */ noreclaim_flag = memalloc_noreclaim_save(); - p->flags |= PF_SWAPWRITE; set_task_reclaim_state(p, &sc.reclaim_state); if (node_pagecache_reclaimable(pgdat) > pgdat->min_unmapped_pages) { @@ -4767,7 +4764,6 @@ static int __node_reclaim(struct pglist_ } set_task_reclaim_state(p, NULL); - current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPWRITE; memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag); fs_reclaim_release(sc.gfp_mask); psi_memstall_leave(&pflags); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-delete-__clearpagewaiters.patch mm-filemap_unaccount_folio-large-skip-mapcount-fixup.patch mm-thp-fix-nr_file_mapped-accounting-in-page__file_rmap.patch mm-warn-on-deleting-redirtied-only-if-accounted.patch mm-unmap_mapping_range_tree-with-i_mmap_rwsem-shared.patch