linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/14] mm,migration: Allow the migration of PageSwapCache pages

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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:30:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] mm,migration: Allow the migration of PageSwapCache
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> @@ -520,10 +521,12 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
>  	else
>  		rc = fallback_migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page);
>
> -	if (!rc)
> -		remove_migration_ptes(page, newpage);
> -	else
> +	if (rc) {
>  		newpage->mapping = NULL;
> +	} else {
> +		if (remap_swapcache)
> +			remove_migration_ptes(page, newpage);
> +	}

You are going to keep the migration ptes after the page has been unlocked?
Or is remap_swapcache true if its not a swapcache page?

Maybe you meant

if (!remap_swapcache)

?

>  	unlock_page(newpage);
>

>
>  skip_unmap:
>  	if (!page_mapped(page))
> -		rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page);
> +		rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page, remap_swapcache);
>
> -	if (rc)
> +	if (rc && remap_swapcache)
>  		remove_migration_ptes(page, page);
>  rcu_unlock:
>

Looks like you meant !remap_swapcache

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