mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma

Shrink shmem's stack usage by eliminating the pseudo-vma from its folio
allocation.  alloc_pages_mpol(gfp, order, pol, ilx, nid) becomes the
principal actor for passing mempolicy choice down to __alloc_pages(),
rather than vma_alloc_folio(gfp, order, vma, addr, hugepage).

vma_alloc_folio() and alloc_pages() remain, but as wrappers around
alloc_pages_mpol().  alloc_pages_bulk_*() untouched, except to provide the
additional args to policy_nodemask(), which subsumes policy_node(). 
Cleanup throughout, cutting out some unhelpful "helpers".

It would all be much simpler without MPOL_INTERLEAVE, but that adds a
dynamic to the constant mpol: complicated by v3.6 commit 09c231cb8bfd
("tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes"), which added ino bias
to the interleave, hidden from mm/mempolicy.c until this commit.

Hence "ilx" throughout, the "interleave index".  Originally I thought it
could be done just with nid, but that's wrong: the nodemask may come from
the shared policy layer below a shmem vma, or it may come from the task
layer above a shmem vma; and without the final nodemask then nodeid cannot
be decided.  And how ilx is applied depends also on page order.

The interleave index is almost always irrelevant unless MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
with one exception in alloc_pages_mpol(), where the NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX
passed down from vma-less alloc_pages() is also used as hint not to use
THP-style hugepage allocation - to avoid the overhead of a hugepage arg
(though I don't understand why we never just added a GFP bit for THP - if
it actually needs a different allocation strategy from other pages of the
same order).  vma_alloc_folio() still carries its hugepage arg here, but
it is not used, and should be removed when agreed.

get_vma_policy() no longer allows a NULL vma: over time I believe we've
eradicated all the places which used to need it e.g.  swapoff and madvise
used to pass NULL vma to read_swap_cache_async(), but now know the vma.

[[email protected]: handle NULL mpol being passed to __read_swap_cache_async()]
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Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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