Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed Mar 15 2017 - 03:32:34 EST


On 03/15/2017 06:24 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> try_to_munlock returns SWAP_MLOCK if the one of VMAs mapped
> the page has VM_LOCKED flag. In that time, VM set PG_mlocked to
> the page if the page is not pte-mapped THP which cannot be
> mlocked, either.
>
> With that, __munlock_isolated_page can use PageMlocked to check
> whether try_to_munlock is successful or not without relying on
> try_to_munlock's retval. It helps to make try_to_unmap/try_to_unmap_one
> simple with upcoming patches.
>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>