linux-kernel - [PATCH 00/11] mm: lru related cleanups

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Date:   Mon,  7 Dec 2020 15:09:38 -0700
From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00/11] mm: lru related cleanups

The cleanups are intended to reduce the verbosity in lru list
operations and make them less error-prone. A typical example
would be how the patches change __activate_page():

 static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
 {
 	if (!PageActive(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
-		int lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
 		int nr_pages = thp_nr_pages(page);
 
-		del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
+		del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec);
 		SetPageActive(page);
-		lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
-		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
+		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
 		trace_mm_lru_activate(page);
 
There are a few more places like __activate_page() and they are
unnecessarily repetitive in terms of figuring out which list a page
should be added onto or deleted from. And with the duplicated code
removed, they are easier to read, IMO.

Patch 1 to 5 basically cover the above. Patch 6 and 7 make code more
robust by improving bug reporting. Patch 8, 9 and 10 take care of
some dangling helpers left in header files. Patch 11 isn't strictly a
clean-up patch, but it seems still relevant to include it here.

Yu Zhao (11):
  mm: use add_page_to_lru_list()
  mm: shuffle lru list addition and deletion functions
  mm: don't pass "enum lru_list" to lru list addition functions
  mm: don't pass "enum lru_list" to trace_mm_lru_insertion()
  mm: don't pass "enum lru_list" to del_page_from_lru_list()
  mm: add __clear_page_lru_flags() to replace page_off_lru()
  mm: VM_BUG_ON lru page flags
  mm: fold page_lru_base_type() into its sole caller
  mm: fold __update_lru_size() into its sole caller
  mm: make lruvec_lru_size() static
  mm: enlarge the "int nr_pages" parameter of update_lru_size()

 include/linux/memcontrol.h     |  10 +--
 include/linux/mm_inline.h      | 115 ++++++++++++++-------------------
 include/linux/mmzone.h         |   2 -
 include/linux/vmstat.h         |   6 +-
 include/trace/events/pagemap.h |  11 ++--
 mm/compaction.c                |   2 +-
 mm/memcontrol.c                |  10 +--
 mm/mlock.c                     |   3 +-
 mm/swap.c                      |  50 ++++++--------
 mm/vmscan.c                    |  21 ++----
 10 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)

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