The patch titled
vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable scan control
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable-scan-control.patch
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Subject: vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable scan control
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
This scan control is abused to communicate a return value from
shrink_zones(). Write this idiomatically and remove the knob.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable-scan-control mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable-scan-control
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ struct scan_control {
int swappiness;
- int all_unreclaimable;
-
int order;
int lumpy_reclaim;
@@ -1701,14 +1699,14 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, st
* If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
* scan then give up on it.
*/
-static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
+static int shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
struct zoneref *z;
struct zone *zone;
+ int progress = 0;
- sc->all_unreclaimable = 1;
for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
sc->nodemask) {
if (!populated_zone(zone))
@@ -1724,19 +1722,19 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, s
if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
- sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
} else {
/*
* Ignore cpuset limitation here. We just want to reduce
* # of used pages by us regardless of memory shortage.
*/
- sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(sc->mem_cgroup,
priority);
}
shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
+ progress = 1;
}
+ return progress;
}
/*
@@ -1789,7 +1787,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page
sc->nr_scanned = 0;
if (!priority)
disable_swap_token();
- shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
+ ret = shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
/*
* Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from
* over limit cgroups
@@ -1826,7 +1824,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
}
/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
- if (!sc->all_unreclaimable && scanning_global_lru(sc))
+ if (ret && scanning_global_lru(sc))
ret = sc->nr_reclaimed;
out:
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
sparsemem-on-no-vmemmap-path-put-mem_map-on-node-high-too.patch
mincore-cleanups.patch
mincore-break-do_mincore-into-logical-pieces.patch
mincore-pass-ranges-as-startend-address-pairs.patch
mincore-do-nested-page-table-walks.patch
mm-document-follow_page.patch
vmscan-fix-unmapping-behaviour-for-reclaim_swap.patch
vmscan-remove-may_unmap-scan-control.patch
vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable-scan-control.patch
vmscan-remove-isolate_pages-callback-scan-control.patch
vmscan-remove-may_swap-scan-control.patch
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