Re: [PATCH 14/17] mm: Do not use atomic operations when releasing pages

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu May 01 2014 - 09:29:32 EST


On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There should be no references to it any more and a parallel mark should
> not be reordered against us. Use non-locked varient to clear page active.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/swap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index f2228b7..7a5bdd7 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
> }
>
> /* Clear Active bit in case of parallel mark_page_accessed */
> - ClearPageActive(page);
> + __ClearPageActive(page);

Shouldn't this comment be removed also?
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