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    Revert "mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim" · 55ab834a
    Michal Hocko authored
    This reverts commit 12a5d395.
    
    Although it is recognized that a finer grained pro-active reclaim is
    something we need and want the semantic of this implementation is really
    ambiguous.
    
    In a follow up discussion it became clear that there are two essential
    usecases here.  One is to use memory.reclaim to pro-actively reclaim
    memory and expectation is that the requested and reported amount of memory
    is uncharged from the memcg.  Another usecase focuses on pro-active
    demotion when the memory is merely shuffled around to demotion targets
    while the overall charged memory stays unchanged.
    
    The current implementation considers demoted pages as reclaimed and that
    break both usecases.  [1] has tried to address the reporting part but
    there are more issues with that summarized in [2] and follow up emails.
    
    Let's revert the nodemask based extension of the memcg pro-active
    reclaim for now until we settle with a more robust semantic.
    
    [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206023406.3182800-1-almasrymina@google.com
    [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5bsmpCyeryu3Zz1@dhcp22.suse.cz
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5xASNe1x8cusiTx@dhcp22.suse.cz
    Fixes: 12a5d395 ("mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
    Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
    Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
    Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
    Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
    Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
    Cc: zefan li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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