mm: let node_reclaim() return the number of pages reclaimed

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There is only one caller, get_page_from_freelist(), and it does not make
any use of the reason for skipping the reclaim, nor does it make any
distinction between a full and partially successful reclaim.

Therefore, node_reclaim() can simply return the number of pages that have
been reclaimed, same as __node_reclaim(), and the NODE_RECLAIM_xxx macros
can be removed.

There is one small change of behavior when __node_reclaim() was attempted
but returned zero.  The allocation now skips the zone immediately; before
this patch, the zone watermarks were checked first.  I believe it was an
oversight rather than intention, because the chances that zone watermark
is OK after __node_reclaim() did not reclaim any pages are very close to
zero.

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.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260714132300.2136018-1-ptesarik@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Petr Tesarik 2026-07-14 15:23:00 +02:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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