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Message-ID: <20120919164625.GQ1560@cmpxchg.org> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:46:25 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:53:45PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > page_evictable(page, vma) is an irritant: almost all its callers pass > NULL for vma. Remove the vma arg and use mlocked_vma_newpage(vma, page) > explicitly in the couple of places it's needed. But in those places we > don't even need page_evictable() itself! They're dealing with a freshly > allocated anonymous page, which has no "mapping" and cannot be mlocked yet. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> > Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> > Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com> > Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com> Much better. With documentation updates and everything, thank you! Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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