mm: introduce and use mapping_empty()

Patch series "Remove nrexceptional tracking", v2.

We actually use nrexceptional for very little these days.  It's a minor
pain to keep in sync with nrpages, but the pain becomes much bigger with
the THP patches because we don't know how many indices a shadow entry
occupies.  It's easier to just remove it than keep it accurate.

Also, we save 8 bytes per inode which is nothing to sneeze at; on my
laptop, it would improve shmem_inode_cache from 22 to 23 objects per
16kB, and inode_cache from 26 to 27 objects.  Combined, that saves
a megabyte of memory from a combined usage of 25MB for both caches.
Unfortunately, ext4 doesn't cross a magic boundary, so it doesn't save
any memory for ext4.

This patch (of 4):

Instead of checking the two counters (nrpages and nrexceptional), we can
just check whether i_pages is empty.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 469fa7ffcf96..a4bd41128bf3 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 
 struct pagevec;
 
+static inline bool mapping_empty(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	return xa_empty(&mapping->i_pages);
+}
+
 /*
  * Bits in mapping->flags.
  */