Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/migration: remove unneeded lock page and PageMovable check

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed May 25 2022 - 04:34:09 EST


On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 04:18:20PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> When non-lru movable page was freed from under us, __ClearPageMovable must
> have been done. So we can remove unneeded lock page and PageMovable check
> here. Also free_pages_prepare() will clear PG_isolated for us, so we can
> further remove ClearPageIsolated as suggested by David.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 9 ++-------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index e88ebb88fa6f..337336115e43 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1090,15 +1090,10 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
> return -ENOSYS;
>
> if (page_count(page) == 1) {
> - /* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
> + /* Page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
> ClearPageActive(page);
> ClearPageUnevictable(page);
> - if (unlikely(__PageMovable(page))) {
> - lock_page(page);
> - if (!PageMovable(page))
> - ClearPageIsolated(page);
> - unlock_page(page);
> - }
> + /* free_pages_prepare() will clear PG_isolated. */
> goto out;
> }
>
> --
> 2.23.0
>
>

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs