Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 09:07:24 EST


On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:43:23PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the
> range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it
> also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing
> an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on
> seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked
> bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless
> reference count churn.

Looks fine to me.

But please drop a line of comment in the code. As is it might be confusing
for a reader.

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Kirill A. Shutemov