Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Feb 16 2017 - 12:40:15 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:36:07AM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> There are a few places the code assumes anonymous pages should have
> SwapBacked flag set. MADV_FREE pages are anonymous pages but we are
> going to add them to LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list and clear SwapBacked flag
> for them. The assumption doesn't hold any more, so fix them.
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>