mm: take pagevecs off reclaim stack

Replace pagevecs in putback_lru_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru()
by lists of pages_to_free: then apply Konstantin Khlebnikov's
free_hot_cold_page_list() to them instead of pagevec_release().

Which simplifies the flow (no need to drop and retake lock whenever
pagevec fills up) and reduces stale addresses in stack backtraces
(which often showed through the pagevecs); but more importantly,
removes another 120 bytes from the deepest stacks in page reclaim.
Although I've not recently seen an actual stack overflow here with
a vanilla kernel, move_active_pages_to_lru() has often featured in
deep backtraces.

However, free_hot_cold_page_list() does not handle compound pages
(nor need it: a Transparent HugePage would have been split by the
time it reaches the call in shrink_page_list()), but it is possible
for putback_lru_pages() or move_active_pages_to_lru() to be left
holding the last reference on a THP, so must exclude the unlikely
compound case before putting on pages_to_free.

Remove pagevec_strip(), its work now done in move_active_pages_to_lru().
The pagevec in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() remains in mm/vmscan.c,
but that is never on the reclaim path, and cannot be replaced by a list.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index db6defa..79c22a6 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
-#include <linux/buffer_head.h>	/* for try_to_release_page() */
 #include <linux/percpu_counter.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
@@ -730,24 +729,6 @@ void ____pagevec_lru_add(struct pagevec *pvec, enum lru_list lru)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(____pagevec_lru_add);
 
-/*
- * Try to drop buffers from the pages in a pagevec
- */
-void pagevec_strip(struct pagevec *pvec)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(pvec); i++) {
-		struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
-
-		if (page_has_private(page) && trylock_page(page)) {
-			if (page_has_private(page))
-				try_to_release_page(page, 0);
-			unlock_page(page);
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 /**
  * pagevec_lookup - gang pagecache lookup
  * @pvec:	Where the resulting pages are placed