Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: remove free_page_mlock

[Johannes Weiner]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:57:27PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> We should not be seeing non-0 unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed any longer.
> So remove free_page_mlock() from the page freeing paths: __PG_MLOCKED
> is already in PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE, so free_pages_check() will now
> be checking it, reporting "BUG: Bad page state" if it's ever found set.
> Comment UNEVICTABLE_MLOCKFREED and unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed always 0.

I would have just removed it because I don't see too many users
relying on it being there.  But I'm fine with keeping it for now.

> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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