The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/vmscan: filter empty page_list at the beginning has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-vmscan-filter-empty-page_list-at-the-beginning.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch\nof git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmscan: filter empty page_list at the beginning node_page_list would always be !empty on finishing the loop, except page_list is empty. Let's handle empty page_list before doing any real work including touching PF_MEMALLOC flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429014426.29223-1-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-filter-empty-page_list-at-the-beginning +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2568,9 +2568,12 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_ struct page *page; unsigned int noreclaim_flag; + if (list_empty(page_list)) + return nr_reclaimed; + noreclaim_flag = memalloc_noreclaim_save(); - while (!list_empty(page_list)) { + do { page = lru_to_page(page_list); if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) nid = page_to_nid(page); @@ -2583,10 +2586,9 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_ nr_reclaimed += reclaim_page_list(&node_page_list, NODE_DATA(nid)); nid = NUMA_NO_NODE; - } + } while (!list_empty(page_list)); - if (!list_empty(&node_page_list)) - nr_reclaimed += reclaim_page_list(&node_page_list, NODE_DATA(nid)); + nr_reclaimed += reclaim_page_list(&node_page_list, NODE_DATA(nid)); memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are