From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753923Ab0CZDHK (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:07:10 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:33694 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753850Ab0CZDHI (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:07:08 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] mm,migration: Do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Lameter , Adam Litke , Avi Kivity , David Rientjes , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <20100325133936.GR2024@csn.ul.ie> References: <20100325191229.8e3d2ba1.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100325133936.GR2024@csn.ul.ie> Message-Id: <20100326120429.6C98.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:07:02 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org very small nit > There were minor changes in how the rcu_read_lock is taken and released > based on other comments. With your suggestion, the block now looks like; > > if (PageAnon(page)) { > rcu_read_lock(); > rcu_locked = 1; > > /* > * If the page has no mappings any more, just bail. An > * unmapped anon page is likely to be freed soon but > * worse, > * it's possible its anon_vma disappeared between when > * the page was isolated and when we reached here while > * the RCU lock was not held > */ > if (!page_mapcount(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) page_mapped? > goto rcu_unlock; > > anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page); > atomic_inc(&anon_vma->external_refcount); > }