linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: fix typo in isolating lru pages

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Date:	Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:07:17 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: fix typo in isolating lru pages

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:38:41 +0800
Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com> wrote:

> It is not the tag page but the cursor page that we should process, and it looks
> a typo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> ---
> 
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c	Thu Dec 29 20:20:16 2011
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c	Thu Dec 29 20:23:30 2011
> @@ -1231,13 +1231,13 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u
> 
>  				mem_cgroup_lru_del(cursor_page);
>  				list_move(&cursor_page->lru, dst);
> -				isolated_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
> +				isolated_pages = hpage_nr_pages(cursor_page);
>  				nr_taken += isolated_pages;
>  				nr_lumpy_taken += isolated_pages;
>  				if (PageDirty(cursor_page))
>  					nr_lumpy_dirty += isolated_pages;
>  				scan++;
> -				pfn += isolated_pages-1;
> +				pfn += isolated_pages - 1;
>  			} else {
>  				/*
>  				 * Check if the page is freed already.

This problem looks pretty benign in mainline.  But Andrea's "mm:
vmscan: check if we isolated a compound page during lumpy scan" came
along and uses isolated_pages rather a lot more, including using it to
advance across the pfn array.

I jiggled your patch to suit current mainline then reworked everything
else so we end up with this result.

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