[merged mm-stable] mm-vmscan-filter-empty-page_list-at-the-beginning.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-vmscan-filter-empty-page_list-at-the-beginning.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

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

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From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
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@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 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@gmail.com are