The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: fix shrink nr.unqueued_dirty counter issue has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-fix-shrink-nrunqueued_dirty-counter-issue.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 ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: fix shrink nr.unqueued_dirty counter issue Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:23:52 +0800 It is needed to ensure sc->nr.unqueued_dirty > 0, which can avoid setting PGDAT_DIRTY flag when sc->nr.unqueued_dirty and sc->nr.file_taken are both zero. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240112012353.1387-1-justinjiang@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-fix-shrink-nrunqueued_dirty-counter-issue +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -5990,7 +5990,8 @@ again: set_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags); /* Allow kswapd to start writing pages during reclaim.*/ - if (sc->nr.unqueued_dirty == sc->nr.file_taken) + if (sc->nr.unqueued_dirty && + sc->nr.unqueued_dirty == sc->nr.file_taken) set_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags); /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from justinjiang@xxxxxxxx are