Re: [PATCH v14 081/138] mm: Add folio_evictable()

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:41:30PM +0100, David Howells wrote:

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [off-list ref] wrote:

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This is the folio equivalent of page_evictable().  Unfortunately, it's
different from !folio_test_unevictable(), but I think it's used in places
where you have to be a VM expert and can reasonably be expected to know
the difference.

It would be useful to say how it is different.  I'm guessing it's because a
page is always entirely mlocked or not, but a folio might be partially
mlocked?

folio_test_unevictable() checks the unevictable page flag.
folio_evictable() tests whether the folio is evictable (is any page
in the folio part of an mlocked VMA, or has the filesystem marked
the inode as being unevictable (eg is it ramfs).

It does end up looking a bit weird though.

                if (page_evictable(page) && PageUnevictable(page)) {
                        del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec);
                        ClearPageUnevictable(page);
                        add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);

but it's all mm-internal, not exposed to filesystems.