linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] mm: make the try_to

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:31:45 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        kernel-team@....com, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function

On 03/15/2017 06:24 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> try_to_munlock returns SWAP_MLOCK if the one of VMAs mapped
> the page has VM_LOCKED flag. In that time, VM set PG_mlocked to
> the page if the page is not pte-mapped THP which cannot be
> mlocked, either.
> 
> With that, __munlock_isolated_page can use PageMlocked to check
> whether try_to_munlock is successful or not without relying on
> try_to_munlock's retval. It helps to make try_to_unmap/try_to_unmap_one
> simple with upcoming patches.
> 
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>