[PATCH 1/1] mm: remove NODE_RECLAIM_xxx macros

From: Petr Tesarik

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 08:45:15 EST


Change node_reclaim() to return a bool indicating whether any
pages have been reclaimed, because that's the only information
needed by the only caller, get_page_from_freelist().

Originally, I wanted to convert the preprocessor macros to an
enum, but I couldn't find any explicit use of NODE_RECLAIM_SOME
and NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS. That's because they are typecast from
a bool. This seemed a bit fragile, so I dug a bit deeper and
came up with this proposed cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 12 ++++--------
mm/page_alloc.c | 19 ++++---------------
mm/vmscan.c | 18 +++++++++---------
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 181e79f1d6a20..6e09157a97692 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1373,23 +1373,19 @@ static inline void mminit_verify_zonelist(void)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT */

-#define NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN -2
-#define NODE_RECLAIM_FULL -1
-#define NODE_RECLAIM_SOME 0
-#define NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS 1
-
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
extern int node_reclaim_mode;

-extern int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *, gfp_t, unsigned int);
+extern bool node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ unsigned int order);
extern int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask);
#else
#define node_reclaim_mode 0

-static inline int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t mask,
+static inline bool node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t mask,
unsigned int order)
{
- return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
+ return false;
}
static inline int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask)
{
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f7db8f049bd23..9db7eaa7091c9 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3899,8 +3899,6 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
if (!zone_watermark_fast(zone, order, mark,
ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags,
gfp_mask)) {
- int ret;
-
if (cond_accept_memory(zone, order, alloc_flags))
goto try_this_zone;

@@ -3921,22 +3919,13 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
!zone_allows_reclaim(zonelist_zone(ac->preferred_zoneref), zone))
continue;

- ret = node_reclaim(zone->zone_pgdat, gfp_mask, order);
- switch (ret) {
- case NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN:
- /* did not scan */
- continue;
- case NODE_RECLAIM_FULL:
- /* scanned but unreclaimable */
+ if (!node_reclaim(zone->zone_pgdat, gfp_mask, order))
continue;
- default:
- /* did we reclaim enough */
- if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark,
- ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags))
- goto try_this_zone;

+ /* did we reclaim enough */
+ if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark,
+ ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags))
continue;
- }
}

try_this_zone:
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 3f3ff25e561ac..64f6b649eeac1 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -7786,9 +7786,9 @@ static unsigned long __node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask,
return sc->nr_reclaimed;
}

-int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+bool node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
- int ret;
+ unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
/* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */
const unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
struct scan_control sc = {
@@ -7815,13 +7815,13 @@ int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
if (node_pagecache_reclaimable(pgdat) <= pgdat->min_unmapped_pages &&
node_page_state_pages(pgdat, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B) <=
pgdat->min_slab_pages)
- return NODE_RECLAIM_FULL;
+ return false;

/*
* Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
*/
if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
- return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
+ return false;

/*
* Only run node reclaim on the local node or on nodes that do not
@@ -7830,20 +7830,20 @@ int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
* as wide as possible.
*/
if (node_state(pgdat->node_id, N_CPU) && pgdat->node_id != numa_node_id())
- return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
+ return false;

if (test_and_set_bit_lock(PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &pgdat->flags))
- return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
+ return false;

- ret = __node_reclaim(pgdat, gfp_mask, nr_pages, &sc) >= nr_pages;
+ nr_reclaimed = __node_reclaim(pgdat, gfp_mask, nr_pages, &sc);
clear_bit_unlock(PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &pgdat->flags);

- if (ret)
+ if (nr_reclaimed >= nr_pages)
count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS);
else
count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED);

- return ret;
+ return true;
}

#else
--
2.54.0