Re: [RFC 2/7] mm: change PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN with PAGE_REFRECLAIM
From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 12:52:42 EST
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 12:52:49PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> The local variable references in shrink_page_list is PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
> as default. It is for preventing to reclaim dirty pages when CMA try to
> migrate pages. Strictly speaking, we don't need it because CMA didn't allow
> to write out by .may_writepage = 0 in reclaim_clean_pages_from_list.
>
> Moreover, it has a problem to prevent anonymous pages's swap out even
> though force_reclaim = true in shrink_page_list on upcoming patch.
> So this patch makes references's default value to PAGEREF_RECLAIM and
> rename force_reclaim with skip_reference_check to make it more clear.
>
> This is a preparatory work for next patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me, just one nit below.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index d9c3e873eca6..a28e5d17b495 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
> struct scan_control *sc,
> enum ttu_flags ttu_flags,
> struct reclaim_stat *stat,
> - bool force_reclaim)
> + bool skip_reference_check)
"ignore_references" would be better IMO