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Message-Id: <20130109162042.79a9fedd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:20:42 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...gle.com>,
	Bryan Freed <bfreed@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: prevent to add a page to swap if may_writepage
 is unset

On Wed,  9 Jan 2013 15:21:13 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:

> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -780,6 +780,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
>  		if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
>  			if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
>  				goto keep_locked;
> +			if (!sc->may_writepage)
> +				goto keep_locked;
>  			if (!add_to_swap(page))
>  				goto activate_locked;
>  			may_enter_fs = 1;

We should add a comment here explaining what's going on.  But I can't
suggest anything which sounds rational because this looks so wrong :(

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