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diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index e3045040dc3e..88a394872677 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -428,6 +428,30 @@ void pagevec_strip(struct pagevec *pvec)
}
/**
+ * pagevec_swap_free - try to free swap space from the pages in a pagevec
+ * @pvec: pagevec with swapcache pages to free the swap space of
+ *
+ * The caller needs to hold an extra reference to each page and
+ * not hold the page lock on the pages. This function uses a
+ * trylock on the page lock so it may not always free the swap
+ * space associated with a page.
+ */
+void pagevec_swap_free(struct pagevec *pvec)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(pvec); i++) {
+ struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
+
+ if (PageSwapCache(page) && trylock_page(page)) {
+ if (PageSwapCache(page))
+ remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref(page);
+ unlock_page(page);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/**
* pagevec_lookup - gang pagecache lookup
* @pvec: Where the resulting pages are placed
* @mapping: The address_space to search