linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: remove vma arg from page

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:30:56 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:53:45PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> page_evictable(page, vma) is an irritant: almost all its callers pass
> NULL for vma.  Remove the vma arg and use mlocked_vma_newpage(vma, page)
> explicitly in the couple of places it's needed.  But in those places we
> don't even need page_evictable() itself!  They're dealing with a freshly
> allocated anonymous page, which has no "mapping" and cannot be mlocked yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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