linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: vmscan: init reclaim_state in do_try_to_free

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Message-ID: <20150112222634.GC25609@phnom.home.cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:26:34 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: vmscan: init reclaim_state in
 do_try_to_free_pages

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:30:38PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> All users of do_try_to_free_pages() want to have current->reclaim_state
> set in order to account reclaimed slab pages. So instead of duplicating
> the reclaim_state initialization code in each call site, let's do it
> directly in do_try_to_free_pages().

Couldn't this be contained in shrink_slab() directly?
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