[merged mm-stable] mm-page_alloc-avoid-unneeded-alike_pages-calculation.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-page_alloc-avoid-unneeded-alike_pages-calculation.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc: avoid unneeded alike_pages calculation
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-page_alloc-avoid-unneeded-alike_pages-calculation.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: avoid unneeded alike_pages calculation
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 20:37:23 +0800

When free_pages is 0, alike_pages is not used.  So alike_pages calculation
can be avoided by checking free_pages early to save cpu cycles.  Also fix
typo 'comparable'.  It should be 'compatible' here.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230801123723.2225543-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |   11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-avoid-unneeded-alike_pages-calculation
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1833,6 +1833,10 @@ static void steal_suitable_fallback(stru
 
 	free_pages = move_freepages_block(zone, page, start_type,
 						&movable_pages);
+	/* moving whole block can fail due to zone boundary conditions */
+	if (!free_pages)
+		goto single_page;
+
 	/*
 	 * Determine how many pages are compatible with our allocation.
 	 * For movable allocation, it's the number of movable pages which
@@ -1854,14 +1858,9 @@ static void steal_suitable_fallback(stru
 		else
 			alike_pages = 0;
 	}
-
-	/* moving whole block can fail due to zone boundary conditions */
-	if (!free_pages)
-		goto single_page;
-
 	/*
 	 * If a sufficient number of pages in the block are either free or of
-	 * comparable migratability as our allocation, claim the whole block.
+	 * compatible migratability as our allocation, claim the whole block.
 	 */
 	if (free_pages + alike_pages >= (1 << (pageblock_order-1)) ||
 			page_group_by_mobility_disabled)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@huawei.com are

mm-memory-failure-add-pageoffline-check.patch
mm-memory-failure-fix-potential-page-refcnt-leak-in-memory_failure.patch