Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: move folio LRU code out of swap

From: Baoquan He

Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 07:37:09 EST


On 06/02/26 at 09:01am, Jianyue Wu wrote:
> Rename mm/swap.c to mm/folio_lru.c so the filename better matches
> the code's main responsibility.

Isn't the main action of this patch renaming mm/swap.c to
mm/folio_lru.c? Why the subject still saying moving folio LRU code out
of swap? I am a little confused?

>
> This keeps the implementation split from swap-specific code without
> changing the published LRU helper interfaces.
>
> Update MAINTAINERS and the remaining mm/swap.c documentation references
> after the rename.
>
> Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jianyue Wu <wujianyue000@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 2 +-
> MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> mm/Makefile | 2 +-
> mm/{swap.c => folio_lru.c} | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> index 97e12359775c..31d135e107cb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ of the virtual memory (VM) subsystem of the Linux kernel and
> the writeout of dirty data to disk.
>
> Default values and initialization routines for most of these
> -files can be found in mm/swap.c.
> +files can be found in mm/swap_state.c.

Sorry, I don't get what are 'these files' for most of which default
values and initialization routines can be found in mm/swap.c or
mm/swap_state.c. I tried to search some of them, they are not in
mm/swap*. Could you double check if this sentence is still meaningful.

>
> Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
> index aabdd3cba58e..d6d189b9a996 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ More Memory Management Functions
> .. #kernel-doc:: mm/hmm.c (build warnings)
> .. kernel-doc:: mm/memremap.c
> .. kernel-doc:: mm/hugetlb.c
> -.. kernel-doc:: mm/swap.c
> +.. kernel-doc:: mm/folio_lru.c
> .. kernel-doc:: mm/memcontrol.c
> .. #kernel-doc:: mm/memory-tiers.c (build warnings)
> .. kernel-doc:: mm/shmem.c
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e3ee97f5474e..6bd39e0afceb 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -16900,7 +16900,7 @@ F: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst
> F: Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
> F: include/linux/mm_inline.h
> F: include/linux/mmzone.h
> -F: mm/swap.c
> +F: mm/folio_lru.c
> F: mm/vmscan.c
> F: mm/workingset.c
>
> @@ -17045,7 +17045,6 @@ F: include/linux/swap.h
> F: include/linux/swapfile.h
> F: include/linux/swapops.h
> F: mm/page_io.c
> -F: mm/swap.c
> F: mm/swap.h
> F: mm/swap_table.h
> F: mm/swap_state.c
> diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
> index eff9f9e7e061..5f712f9bbe73 100644
> --- a/mm/Makefile
> +++ b/mm/Makefile
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ endif
>
> obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
> maccess.o page-writeback.o folio-compat.o \
> - readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o shrinker.o \
> + readahead.o folio_lru.o truncate.o vmscan.o shrinker.o \
> shmem.o util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
> mm_init.o percpu.o slab_common.o \
> compaction.o show_mem.o \
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/folio_lru.c
> similarity index 99%
> rename from mm/swap.c
> rename to mm/folio_lru.c
> index e4b3dadaa6dc..7dab6a544d94 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/folio_lru.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> /*
> - * linux/mm/swap.c
> + * linux/mm/folio_lru.c
> *
> * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Linus Torvalds
> */
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>