diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index e304504..88a3948 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -428,6 +428,30 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * 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