Re: [RFC] some page can't be migrated

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Shaohua Li wrote:

> +
> +	/*
> +	 * See truncate_complete_page(). Anonymous page might have
> +	 * fs-private metadata, the page is truncated. Such page can't be
> +	 * migrated. Try to free metadata, so the page can be freed.
> +	 */

Well maybe you should change the comment to refer to an orphaned page. 
That is what Nick used. Also change the comment in truncate_complete_page. 
Anonymous page is confusing here because you check that it is *not* an 
anonymous page.

> +	if (!page->mapping && !PageAnon(page) && PagePrivate(page)) {
> +		try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		goto unlock;
> +	}
> +


Could you move that into the corner case handling that follows?

So it would be something like

if (!page->mapping) {
	if (!PageAnon(page) && PagePrivate(page))
		try_to_relase_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
	goto rcu_unlock;
}

?

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