The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim freed folios has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-vmscan-dont-try-to-reclaim-freed-folios.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim freed folios Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 22:14:32 +0800 If folios were freed from under us, there's no need to reclaim them. Skip these folios to save lots of cpu cycles and avoid possible unnecessary disk I/O. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220608141432.23258-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-dont-try-to-reclaim-freed-folios +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1610,13 +1610,19 @@ retry: folio = lru_to_folio(page_list); list_del(&folio->lru); + nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); + + if (folio_ref_count(folio) == 1 && + folio_ref_freeze(folio, 1)) { + /* folio was freed from under us. So we are done. */ + goto free_it; + } + if (!folio_trylock(folio)) goto keep; VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_active(folio), folio); - nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); - /* Account the number of base pages */ sc->nr_scanned += nr_pages; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-migration-remove-unneeded-lock-page-and-pagemovable-check.patch mm-migration-return-errno-when-isolate_huge_page-failed.patch mm-migration-fix-potential-pte_unmap-on-an-not-mapped-pte.patch mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages.patch mm-swapfile-fix-possible-data-races-of-inuse_pages-v3.patch mm-swap-remove-swap_cache_info-statistics.patch mm-page_alloc-minor-clean-up-for-memmap_init_compound.patch mm-madvise-minor-cleanup-for-swapin_walk_pmd_entry.patch mm-mmapc-fix-missing-call-to-vm_unacct_memory-in-mmap_region.patch mm-khugepaged-remove-unneeded-shmem_huge_enabled-check.patch mm-khugepaged-stop-swapping-in-page-when-vm_fault_retry-occurs.patch mm-khugepaged-trivial-typo-and-codestyle-cleanup.patch mm-khugepaged-minor-cleanup-for-collapse_file.patch mm-khugepaged-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch mm-khugepaged-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-khugepaged_add_pte_mapped_thp.patch mm-khugepaged-try-to-free-transhuge-swapcache-when-possible.patch filemap-minor-cleanup-for-filemap_write_and_wait_range.patch