Jianyue Wu 2253208bec mm/swap: colocate page-cluster sysctl with swap readahead
Patch series "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations", v9.

This series splits folio LRU and swap cleanup into three steps:

  - move the page-cluster sysctl next to swap readahead in
    mm/swap_state.c
  - rename mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c after the swap-specific code
    moves out
  - move MM-internal reclaim declarations out of include/linux/swap.h

After this series, swap cache and swap-in readahead stay in
mm/swap_state.c.  Folio LRU helpers live in mm/folio.c, and MM-internal
reclaim/workingset declarations move from include/linux/swap.h to
mm/internal.h (public LRU helpers used outside mm/ remain in swap.h).

The first patch handles the swap-specific page-cluster state before the
file rename, so the rename commit only carries folio LRU code.  The last
patch keeps the LRU helpers used outside mm/ in include/linux/swap.h and
moves the internal reclaim/workingset declarations to mm/internal.h.


This patch (of 3):

page_cluster and the vm.page-cluster sysctl are only used by swap-in
readahead in swap_state.c.  Move them out of swap.c together with
swap_readahead_setup(), and make page_cluster static to that file.

Rename swap_setup() while moving it as well.  The helper is internal to MM
and now only sets up swap readahead defaults and its sysctl hook, so the
more specific name matches its reduced scope.

Call swap_readahead_setup() from swap_init() after moving it, keeping the
readahead defaults and sysctl registration with swap_state.c
initialization.

swap_setup() previously lived in mm/swap.c, which is built
unconditionally, so the vm.page-cluster sysctl was registered also on
CONFIG_SWAP=n kernels.  After moving the setup into swap_state.c, which is
built only when CONFIG_SWAP is enabled, vm.page-cluster is no longer
registered there.  The knob only tunes swap-in readahead and had no effect
without swap.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708-ch-swap-series-plus-folio-lru-cleanup-v9-0-2bc72b4f8730@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708-ch-swap-series-plus-folio-lru-cleanup-v9-1-2bc72b4f8730@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jianyue Wu <wujianyue000@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04 19:18:34 -07:00
2026-01-26 19:07:09 -08:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
2026-07-26 14:45:48 -07:00

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