linux-kernel - [PATCH 81/97] mm: do not use atomic operations when releasing pages

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:35:29 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	Linux-Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 81/97] mm: do not use atomic operations when releasing pages

commit e3741b506c5088fa8c911bb5884c430f770fb49d upstream.

There should be no references to it any more and a parallel mark should
not be reordered against us.  Use non-locked varient to clear page active.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
---
 mm/swap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 026113d..afeabe3 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
 		}
 
 		/* Clear Active bit in case of parallel mark_page_accessed */
-		ClearPageActive(page);
+		__ClearPageActive(page);
 
 		list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
 	}
-- 
1.8.4.5

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