linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: mlocking in try_to_unmap

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Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Izik Eidus <ieidus@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: mlocking in try_to_unmap_one

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> From 7332f765dbaa1fbfe48cf8d53b20048f7f8105e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:46:51 +0900
> Subject: comment adding to mlocking in try_to_unmap_one
> 
> Current code doesn't tell us why we don't bother to nonlinear kindly.
> This patch added small adding explanation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>

(if the "MLOCK_PAGES && " is removed from this one too)

> ---
>  mm/rmap.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 81a168c..c631407 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1061,7 +1061,11 @@ static int try_to_unmap_file(struct page *page, enum ttu_flags flags)
>  	if (list_empty(&mapping->i_mmap_nonlinear))
>  		goto out;
>  
> -	/* We don't bother to try to find the munlocked page in nonlinears */
> +	/*
> +	 * We don't bother to try to find the munlocked page in nonlinears.
> +	 * It's costly. Instead, later, page reclaim logic may call
> +	 * try_to_unmap(TTU_MUNLOCK) and recover PG_mlocked lazily.
> +	 */
>  	if (MLOCK_PAGES && TTU_ACTION(flags) == TTU_MUNLOCK)
>  		goto out;
>  
> -- 
> 1.6.2.5
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