Re: [PATCH] vmscan: Make move_active_pages_to_lru more generic

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sun Nov 21 2010 - 13:07:44 EST


On 11/21/2010 09:24 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
Now move_active_pages_to_lru can move pages into active or inactive.
if it moves the pages into inactive, it itself can clear PG_acive.
It makes the function more generic.

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index aa4f1cb..bd408b3 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1457,6 +1457,10 @@ static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct zone *zone,
VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
SetPageLRU(page);

+ /* we are de-activating */
+ if (!is_active_lru(lru))
+ ClearPageActive(page);
+

Does that mean we also want code to ensure that pages have
the PG_active bit set when we add them to an active list?

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