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Johannes Weiner 264e56d824 mm: disable user interface to manually rescue unevictable pages 
At one point, anonymous pages were supposed to go on the unevictable list
when no swap space was configured, and the idea was to manually rescue
those pages after adding swap and making them evictable again.  But
nowadays, swap-backed pages on the anon LRU list are not scanned without
available swap space anyway, so there is no point in moving them to a
separate list anymore.

The manual rescue could also be used in case pages were stranded on the
unevictable list due to race conditions.  But the code has been around for
a while now and newly discovered bugs should be properly reported and
dealt with instead of relying on such a manual fixup.

In addition to the lack of a usecase, the sysfs interface to rescue pages
from a specific NUMA node has been broken since its introduction, so it's
unlikely that anybody ever relied on that.

This patch removes the functionality behind the sysctl and the
node-interface and emits a one-time warning when somebody tries to access
either of them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
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backing-dev.c mm-add-comment-explaining-task-state-setting-in-bdi_forker_thread-fix 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
bootmem.c crash_dump: export is_kdump_kernel to modules, consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn 2011-03-23 19:47:19 -07:00
bounce.c bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec() 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache core ops functions and config 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: make compact_zone_order() static 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c debug-pagealloc: add support for highmem pages 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
dmapool.c devres: fix possible use after free 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c fault-injection: add ability to export fault_attr in arbitrary directory 2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
filemap_xip.c mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex 2011-05-25 08:39:18 -07:00
filemap.c vfs: iov_iter: have iov_iter_advance decrement nr_segs appropriately 2011-10-28 13:55:08 +02:00
fremap.c mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int' 2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
highmem.c mm: fix kunmap_high() comment 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
huge_memory.c thp: mremap support and TLB optimization 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm: hugetlb: fix coding style issues 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: nommu: sort mm->mmap list properly 2011-05-25 08:39:05 -07:00
Kconfig memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol 2011-10-31 17:30:47 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
ksm.c oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Make write/read src const void * 2011-05-25 19:56:23 -04:00
madvise.c fs: kill i_alloc_sem 2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: small function definition fixes 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: extend memory hotplug API to allow memory hotplug in virtual machines 2011-07-25 20:57:08 -07:00
memory-failure.c HWPOISON: convert pr_debug()s to pr_info()s 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
memory.c mm/futex: fix futex writes on archs with SW tracking of dirty & young 2011-07-25 20:57:11 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: make copy_from_user() provably correct 2011-09-14 18:09:36 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: migration: clean up unmap_and_move() 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
mincore.c mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
mlock.c mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int' 2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm/mmap.c: eliminate the ret variable from mm_take_all_locks() 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c thp: mmu_notifier_test_young 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low 2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c thp: mremap support and TLB optimization 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c memblock/nobootmem: remove unneeded code from alloc_bootmem_node_high() 2011-05-25 08:39:31 -07:00
nommu.c mmap: fix and tidy up overcommit page arithmetic 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: neaten warn_alloc_failed 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm: Convert vmalloc/memset to vzalloc 2011-09-15 13:56:56 +02:00
page_io.c block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG 2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: document bdi_min_ratio 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: fix code comment for THP 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas 2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead: readahead page allocations are OK to fail 2011-05-25 08:39:25 -07:00
rmap.c ksm: fix the comment of try_to_unmap_one() 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'next-evm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/ima-2.6 into next 2011-08-09 10:31:03 +10:00
slab.c mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs 2011-09-27 22:59:27 +03:00
slob.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
slub.c lib/string.c: introduce memchr_inv() 2011-10-31 17:30:47 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
sparse.c mm: make some struct page's const 2011-07-25 20:57:07 -07:00
swap_state.c block: remove per-queue plugging 2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
swap.c mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention 2011-05-25 08:39:37 -07:00
swapfile.c oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
thrash.c mm: swap-token: add a comment for priority aging 2011-07-25 20:57:08 -07:00
truncate.c mm: a few small updates for radix-swap 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
util.c mm: nommu: sort mm->mmap list properly 2011-05-25 08:39:05 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: report more vmalloc failures 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: disable user interface to manually rescue unevictable pages 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: vmscan: immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes 2011-10-31 17:30:47 -07:00