linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearing

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:24:58 +0800
From:	Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Moussa Ba <moussa.a.ba@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	jaredeh@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or
	mapped vma clearing

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:58:20PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Moussa Ba wrote:
>
>> The other alternative would be to just forgo the additional function
>> clear_refs_walk_vma and rewrite the for loop as:
>> 
>>         for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
>> 			clear_refs_walk.private = vma;
>> 			if (type < CLEAR_REFS_ALL || type > CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED)
>> 				continue;
>> 			if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
>> 				continue;
>> 			if (type == CLEAR_REFS_ANON && vma->vm_file)
>> 				continue;
>> 			if (type == CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED && !vma->vm_file)
>> 				continue;
>> 			walk_page_range(vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, this_walk);
>>         }
>> 
>
>That looks good, with the exception of the check for
>type < CLEAR_REFS_ALL || type > CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED being in the loop.

And also that it looks like is_vm_hugetlb_page() is already checked
outside, no need to check it again. :-)

Thanks.
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