Make the scan helpers return the exact number of folios being scanned or isolated. Since the reclaim loop now has a natural scan budget that controls the scan progress, returning the scan number and consuming the budget makes the scan more accurate and easier to follow. The number of scanned folios for each iteration is always larger than 0, unless the reclaim must stop for a forced aging, so there is no more need for any special handling when there is no progress made: - `return isolated || !remaining ? scanned : 0` in scan_folios: both the function and the call now just return the exact scan count, combined with the scan budget introduced in the previous commit to avoid livelock or under scan. - `scanned += try_to_inc_min_seq` in evict_folios: adding a bool as a scan count was kind of confusing and no longer needed, as scan number should never be zero as long as there are still evictable gens. We may encounter a empty old gen that returns 0 scan count, to avoid that, do a try_to_inc_min_seq before toisolation which have slight to none overhead in most cases. - `evictable_min_seq + MIN_NR_GENS > max_seq` guard in evict_folios: the per-type get_nr_gens == MIN_NR_GENS check in scan_folios naturally returns 0 when only two gens remain and breaks the loop. Also change try_to_inc_min_seq to return void, as its return value is no longer used by any caller. Call it before isolate_folios to flush any empty gens left by external folio freeing, and again after isolate_folios when scanning moved or protected folios may have emptied the oldest gen. The scan still stops if only two gens are left, as the scan number will be zero. This matches the previous behavior. This forced gen protection may be removed or softened later to improve reclaim further. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-5-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>