Re: [PATCH 1/4] pull out the page pre-release and sanity checklogic for reuse

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Wed,  1 Oct 2008 13:30:58 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When we are about to release a page we perform a number of actions
> on that page.  We clear down any anonymous mappings, confirm that
> the page is safe to release, check for freeing locks, before mapping
> the page should that be required.  Pull this processing out into a
> helper function for reuse in a later patch.
> 
> Note that we do not convert the similar cleardown in free_hot_cold_page()
> as the optimiser is unable to squash the loops during the inline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiruyo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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