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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:50:03 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] memcg: fix handling of shmem migration

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:46:59 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:31:49 +0900
> Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > PG_swapbacked flag of newpage should be set(if needed) before
> > mem_cgroup_prepare_migration, because mem_cgroup_charge_common
> > checks the flag and determines whether it sets PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_FILE or not.
> > 
> > Before this patch, if migrating shmem/tmpfs pages, newpage would be
> > charged with PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_FILE set, while oldpage has been charged
> > without the flag.
> > 
> Nice catch !
> Thank you. 
> 
> Hmm, should I add MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_SHMEM rather than
> setting flag to newpage ?
> 
> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
I acked but.. can't this change moved into memcontrol.c ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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