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On Tue, 27 May 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Code could be easily added to alloc_pages_vma() to consider the pinned
> > status on allocation. Remove GFP_MOVABLE if the vma is pinned.
>
> Yes, but alloc_pages_vma() isn't used for shared pages (with exception
> of shmem and hugetlbfs).

alloc_pages_vma() is used for all paths where we populate address ranges
with pages. This is what we are doing when pinning. Pages are not
allocated outside of a vma context.

What do you mean by shared pages that are not shmem pages? AnonPages that
are referenced from multiple processes?

> So whichever way around we have to do the mm_populate() + eviction hook
> + migration code, and since that equally covers the anon case, why
> bother?

Migration is expensive and the memory registration overhead already
causes lots of complaints.