linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] HWPOISON: Stop shrinking at right page count

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Date:	Wed,  6 Oct 2010 22:49:01 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	fengguang.wu@...el.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] HWPOISON: Stop shrinking at right page count

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

When we call the slab shrinker to free a page we need to stop at
page count one because the caller always holds a single reference, not zero.

This avoids useless looping over slab shrinkers and freeing too much
memory.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 886144b..7c1af9b 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ void shake_page(struct page *p, int access)
 		int nr;
 		do {
 			nr = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000);
-			if (page_count(p) == 0)
+			if (page_count(p) == 1)
 				break;
 		} while (nr > 10);
 	}
-- 
1.7.1

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