Re: [PATCH 02/11] mm,migration: Do not try to migrate unmappedanonymous pages

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Mar 26 2010 - 09:49:53 EST


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:07:02PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> very small nit
>
> > There were minor changes in how the rcu_read_lock is taken and released
> > based on other comments. With your suggestion, the block now looks like;
> >
> > if (PageAnon(page)) {
> > rcu_read_lock();
> > rcu_locked = 1;
> >
> > /*
> > * If the page has no mappings any more, just bail. An
> > * unmapped anon page is likely to be freed soon but
> > * worse,
> > * it's possible its anon_vma disappeared between when
> > * the page was isolated and when we reached here while
> > * the RCU lock was not held
> > */
> > if (!page_mapcount(page) && !PageSwapCache(page))
>
> page_mapped?
>

Will be fixed in V6.

Thanks

> > goto rcu_unlock;
> >
> > anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page);
> > atomic_inc(&anon_vma->external_refcount);
> > }
>
>
>

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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