mm: add SHRINK_EMPTY shrinker methods return value

We need to distinguish the situations when shrinker has very small
amount of objects (see vfs_pressure_ratio() called from
super_cache_count()), and when it has no objects at all.  Currently, in
the both of these cases, shrinker::count_objects() returns 0.

The patch introduces new SHRINK_EMPTY return value, which will be used
for "no objects at all" case.  It's is a refactoring mostly, as
SHRINK_EMPTY is replaced by 0 by all callers of do_shrink_slab() in this
patch, and all the magic will happen in further.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153063069574.1818.11037751256699341813.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Cc: Li RongQing <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Sahitya Tummala <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 7ca9c18cf130..b154fd2b084c 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -34,12 +34,15 @@ struct shrink_control {
 };
 
 #define SHRINK_STOP (~0UL)
+#define SHRINK_EMPTY (~0UL - 1)
 /*
  * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
  *
  * @count_objects should return the number of freeable items in the cache. If
- * there are no objects to free or the number of freeable items cannot be
- * determined, it should return 0. No deadlock checks should be done during the
+ * there are no objects to free, it should return SHRINK_EMPTY, while 0 is
+ * returned in cases of the number of freeable items cannot be determined
+ * or shrinker should skip this cache for this time (e.g., their number
+ * is below shrinkable limit). No deadlock checks should be done during the
  * count callback - the shrinker relies on aggregating scan counts that couldn't
  * be executed due to potential deadlocks to be run at a later call when the
  * deadlock condition is no longer pending.