linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru

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Message-ID: <20180531072627.bdnclijtjkbpmxds@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 08:26:27 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page()

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 08:23:16PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> George Boole would have noticed a slight error in 4.16 commit 69d763fc6d3a
> ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page").
> Fix it, to match both the comment above it, and the original behaviour.
> 
> Although anonymous pages are not marked PageDirty at first, we have an
> old habit of calling SetPageDirty when a page is removed from swap cache:
> so there's a category of ex-swap pages that are easily migratable, but
> were inadvertently excluded from compaction's async migration in 4.16.
> 
> Fixes: 69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs