[PATCH] mm: vmscan: recompute page status when putting back

[Hillf Danton]

If unlikely the given page is isolated from lru list again, its status is
recomputed before putting back to lru list, since the comment says page's
status can change while we move it among lru.


Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
---

--- a/mm/vmscan.c	Thu Dec 29 20:20:16 2011
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c	Fri Jan  6 21:31:56 2012
@@ -633,12 +633,14 @@ int remove_mapping(struct address_space
 void putback_lru_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	int lru;
-	int active = !!TestClearPageActive(page);
-	int was_unevictable = PageUnevictable(page);
+	int active;
+	int was_unevictable;

 	VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));

 redo:
+	active = !!TestClearPageActive(page);
+	was_unevictable = PageUnevictable(page);
 	ClearPageUnevictable(page);

 	if (page_evictable(page, NULL)) {
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