mm: delete __ClearPageWaiters()

The PG_waiters bit is not included in PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE, and
vmscan.c's free_unref_page_list() callers rely on that not to generate
bad_page() alerts.  So __page_cache_release(), put_pages_list() and
release_pages() (and presumably copy-and-pasted free_zone_device_page())
are redundant and misleading to make a special point of clearing it (as
the "__" implies, it could only safely be used on the freeing path).

Delete __ClearPageWaiters().  Remark on this in one of the "possible"
comments in folio_wake_bit(), and delete the superfluous comments.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3eafa969-5b1a-accf-88fe-318784c791a@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index d2e6a79fe69d..98dfeff82ef0 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1185,24 +1185,17 @@ static void folio_wake_bit(struct folio *folio, int bit_nr)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * It is possible for other pages to have collided on the waitqueue
-	 * hash, so in that case check for a page match. That prevents a long-
-	 * term waiter
+	 * It's possible to miss clearing waiters here, when we woke our page
+	 * waiters, but the hashed waitqueue has waiters for other pages on it.
+	 * That's okay, it's a rare case. The next waker will clear it.
 	 *
-	 * It is still possible to miss a case here, when we woke page waiters
-	 * and removed them from the waitqueue, but there are still other
-	 * page waiters.
+	 * Note that, depending on the page pool (buddy, hugetlb, ZONE_DEVICE,
+	 * other), the flag may be cleared in the course of freeing the page;
+	 * but that is not required for correctness.
 	 */
-	if (!waitqueue_active(q) || !key.page_match) {
+	if (!waitqueue_active(q) || !key.page_match)
 		folio_clear_waiters(folio);
-		/*
-		 * It's possible to miss clearing Waiters here, when we woke
-		 * our page waiters, but the hashed waitqueue has waiters for
-		 * other pages on it.
-		 *
-		 * That's okay, it's a rare case. The next waker will clear it.
-		 */
-	}
+
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
 }