[RFC] mm:do recheck for freeable page in reclaim path

[Wang, Yalin]

In reclaim path, if encounter a freeable page,
the try_to_unmap may fail, because the page's pte is
dirty, we can recheck this page as normal non-freeable page,
this means we can swap out this page into swap partition.

Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 260c413..9930850 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1000,6 +1000,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 			}
 		}
 
+recheck:
 		if (!force_reclaim)
 			references = page_check_references(page, sc,
 							&freeable);
@@ -1045,6 +1046,10 @@ unmap:
 			switch (try_to_unmap(page,
 				freeable ? TTU_FREE : ttu_flags)) {
 			case SWAP_FAIL:
+				if (freeable) {
+					freeable = false;
+					goto recheck;
+				}
 				goto activate_locked;
 			case SWAP_AGAIN:
 				goto keep_locked;
-- 
2.2.2
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