Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the tip tree

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 03:35:19 EST


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:10:44AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in
> > mm/migrate.c between the tip tree and commit "mm: memcg: fix
> > compaction/migration failing due to memcg limits" from the
> > akpm tree.
> >
> > The commit 4783af477d3d ("mm: Migrate misplaced page") was
> > removed (among several others) from the tip tree since
> > yesterday (and thus linux-next) so the above akpm tree patch
> > no longer applies.
> >
> > I have dropped this patch form the akpm tree (and the following patches
> > as well:
> > mm-memcg-fix-compaction-migration-failing-due-to-memcg-limits-checkpatch-fixes
> > mm: memcg: push down PageSwapCache check into uncharge entry functions
> > mm: memcg: only check for PageSwapCache when uncharging anon
> > mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
> > mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
> > )
> >
> > Hopefully this doesn't cause other problems. I guess that
> > they will need rebasing depending on what gets merged via the
> > tip tree.
>
> Andrew, sorry about this last minute fallout: I felt that
> sched/numa was still not fully cooked and did not want to hold
> up the rest of the scheduler tree on that - nor did I want to
> send an uncooked tree to Linus.
>
> PeterZ posted another series of sched/numa patches two days ago
> - once that is ready (probably after the merge window) it will
> all reappear again, in a slightly different form. I could stick
> the mm/ bits into a separate tree to make it easier for you.

As this is unlikely to reappear in this merge window, the conflict
resolution is quite simple. All that's needed is remove the 3 hunks
from my patch that converted a user in Peter's patch to a new API. I
can resend the series if needed, but it's probably easier to just
remove the hunks against mm/migrate.c::migrate_misplaced_page():

@@ -1519,10 +1512,9 @@ migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
{
struct page *oldpage = page, *newpage;
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
- struct mem_cgroup *mcg;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
unsigned int gfp;
int rc = 0;
- int charge = -ENOMEM;

VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page));
@@ -1556,12 +1548,7 @@ migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
if (!trylock_page(newpage))
BUG(); /* new page should be unlocked!!! */

- // XXX hnaz, is this right?
- charge = mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(page, newpage, &mcg, gfp);
- if (charge == -ENOMEM) {
- rc = charge;
- goto out;
- }
+ mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(page, newpage, &memcg);

newpage->index = page->index;
newpage->mapping = page->mapping;
@@ -1581,11 +1568,9 @@ migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
page = newpage;
}

+ mem_cgroup_end_migration(memcg, oldpage, newpage, !rc);
out:
- if (!charge)
- mem_cgroup_end_migration(mcg, oldpage, newpage, !rc);
-
- if (oldpage != page)
+ if (oldpage != page)
put_page(oldpage);

if (rc) {
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