mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper

This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order
pages.  It frees pages directly from list without temporary page-vector.
It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free()
behaviour.

bloat-o-meter:

add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 267/-295 (-28)
function                                     old     new   delta
free_hot_cold_page_list                        -     264    +264
get_page_from_freelist                      2129    2132      +3
__pagevec_free                               243     239      -4
split_free_page                              380     373      -7
release_pages                                606     510     -96
free_page_list                               188       -    -188

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7990ca1..cd0c95c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1189,6 +1189,19 @@ out:
 }
 
 /*
+ * Free a list of 0-order pages
+ */
+void free_hot_cold_page_list(struct list_head *list, int cold)
+{
+	struct page *page, *next;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) {
+		trace_mm_pagevec_free(page, cold);
+		free_hot_cold_page(page, cold);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
  * split_page takes a non-compound higher-order page, and splits it into
  * n (1<<order) sub-pages: page[0..n]
  * Each sub-page must be freed individually.