[PATCH v2 1/1] mm: reduce NODE_RECLAIM_xxx and change to enum
From: Petr Tesarik
Date: Fri Jun 12 2026 - 04:51:06 EST
Change node_reclaim() to return an enum indicating whether any
pages have been reclaimed, because that's all the information
needed by the only caller, get_page_from_freelist().
This leads to the following translation of the old macro
identifiers to the new enum values:
- NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN -> NODE_RECLAIM_NONE
- NODE_RECLAIM_FULL -> NODE_RECLAIM_NONE
- NODE_RECLAIM_SOME -> NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS
- NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS -> NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS
Originally, I was looking for occurences of NODE_RECLAIM_SOME
and NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS, but I couldn't find any. That's because
they are typecast from the result of a relational operator. 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>
--
Changes from v1:
- use an enum instead of a bool
---
mm/internal.h | 17 +++++++++--------
mm/page_alloc.c | 19 ++++---------------
mm/vmscan.c | 18 +++++++++---------
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 181e79f1d6a20..89b0ea28051c1 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1373,23 +1373,24 @@ 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
+enum node_reclaim {
+ NODE_RECLAIM_NONE,
+ NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS,
+};
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
extern int node_reclaim_mode;
-extern int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *, gfp_t, unsigned int);
+extern enum node_reclaim 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,
- unsigned int order)
+static inline enum node_reclaim node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
+ gfp_t mask, unsigned int order)
{
- return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
+ return NODE_RECLAIM_NONE;
}
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..83a1caac5ac9c 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) == NODE_RECLAIM_NONE)
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..d5bd55620ee9a 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)
+enum node_reclaim 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 NODE_RECLAIM_NONE;
/*
* 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 NODE_RECLAIM_NONE;
/*
* 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 NODE_RECLAIM_NONE;
if (test_and_set_bit_lock(PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &pgdat->flags))
- return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
+ return NODE_RECLAIM_NONE;
- 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 NODE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS;
}
#else
--
2.54.0