mm: merge writeout into pageout

writeout is only called from pageout, and a straight flow at the end, so
merge the two functions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601113449.3464734-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig 2026-06-01 13:34:28 +02:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 1d0ac576f3
commit 6f64c06f43

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@ -612,11 +612,38 @@ typedef enum {
PAGE_CLEAN,
} pageout_t;
static pageout_t writeout(struct folio *folio, struct address_space *mapping,
struct swap_iocb **plug, struct list_head *folio_list)
/*
* pageout is called by shrink_folio_list() for each dirty folio.
*/
static pageout_t pageout(struct folio *folio, struct address_space *mapping,
struct swap_iocb **plug, struct list_head *folio_list)
{
int res;
/*
* We no longer attempt to writeback filesystem folios here, other
* than tmpfs/shmem. That's taken care of in page-writeback.
* If we find a dirty filesystem folio at the end of the LRU list,
* typically that means the filesystem is saturating the storage
* with contiguous writes and telling it to write a folio here
* would only make the situation worse by injecting an element
* of random access.
*
* If the folio is swapcache, write it back even if that would
* block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
* swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
* congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
*
* A freeable shmem or swapcache folio is referenced only by the
* caller that isolated the folio and the page cache.
*/
if (folio_ref_count(folio) != 1 + folio_nr_pages(folio) || !mapping)
return PAGE_KEEP;
if (!shmem_mapping(mapping) && !folio_test_anon(folio))
return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
if (!folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio))
return PAGE_CLEAN;
folio_set_reclaim(folio);
/*
@ -645,38 +672,6 @@ static pageout_t writeout(struct folio *folio, struct address_space *mapping,
return PAGE_SUCCESS;
}
/*
* pageout is called by shrink_folio_list() for each dirty folio.
*/
static pageout_t pageout(struct folio *folio, struct address_space *mapping,
struct swap_iocb **plug, struct list_head *folio_list)
{
/*
* We no longer attempt to writeback filesystem folios here, other
* than tmpfs/shmem. That's taken care of in page-writeback.
* If we find a dirty filesystem folio at the end of the LRU list,
* typically that means the filesystem is saturating the storage
* with contiguous writes and telling it to write a folio here
* would only make the situation worse by injecting an element
* of random access.
*
* If the folio is swapcache, write it back even if that would
* block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
* swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
* congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
*
* A freeable shmem or swapcache folio is referenced only by the
* caller that isolated the folio and the page cache.
*/
if (folio_ref_count(folio) != 1 + folio_nr_pages(folio) || !mapping)
return PAGE_KEEP;
if (!shmem_mapping(mapping) && !folio_test_anon(folio))
return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
if (!folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio))
return PAGE_CLEAN;
return writeout(folio, mapping, plug, folio_list);
}
/*
* Same as remove_mapping, but if the folio is removed from the mapping, it
* gets returned with a refcount of 0.