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vmscan: convert page buffer handling to use folios 

This mostly just removes calls to compound_head() although nr_reclaimed
should be incremented by the number of pages, not just 1.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220504182857.4013401-11-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2022-05-12 20:23:02 -07:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 49bd2bf967
commit 0a36111c8c
1 changed files with 25 additions and 23 deletions
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@ -1859,38 +1859,40 @@ retry:
}
/*
* If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
* associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
* the page as well.
* If the folio has buffers, try to free the buffer
* mappings associated with this folio. If we succeed
* we try to free the folio as well.
*
* We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
* try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
* possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
* clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
* buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
* will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
* try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
* drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
* We do this even if the folio is dirty.
* filemap_release_folio() does not perform I/O, but it
* is possible for a folio to have the dirty flag set,
* but it is actually clean (all its buffers are clean).
* This happens if the buffers were written out directly,
* with submit_bh(). ext3 will do this, as well as
* the blockdev mapping. filemap_release_folio() will
* discover that cleanness and will drop the buffers
* and mark the folio clean - it can be freed.
*
* Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
* the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
* truncate_cleanup_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
* and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
* process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
* Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
* Rarely, folios can have buffers and no ->mapping.
* These are the folios which were not successfully
* invalidated in truncate_cleanup_folio(). We try to
* drop those buffers here and if that worked, and the
* folio is no longer mapped into process address space
* (refcount == 1) it can be freed. Otherwise, leave
* the folio on the LRU so it is swappable.
*/
if (page_has_private(page)) {
if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
if (folio_has_private(folio)) {
if (!filemap_release_folio(folio, sc->gfp_mask))
goto activate_locked;
if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1) {
unlock_page(page);
if (put_page_testzero(page))
if (!mapping && folio_ref_count(folio) == 1) {
folio_unlock(folio);
if (folio_put_testzero(folio))
goto free_it;
else {
/*
* rare race with speculative reference.
* the speculative reference will free
* this page shortly, so we may
* this folio shortly, so we may
* increment nr_reclaimed here (and
* leave it off the LRU).
*/