Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Set folio swapbacked iff folios are dirty in try_to_unmap_one

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Mon Jan 13 2025 - 08:21:21 EST


On 13.01.25 14:19, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 13.01.25 04:38, Barry Song wrote:
From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>

The refcount may be temporarily or long-term increased, but this does
not change the fundamental nature of the folio already being lazy-
freed. Therefore, we only reset 'swapbacked' when we are certain the
folio is dirty and not droppable.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
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Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>


Ah, should this have a Fixes: ?

Because of a speculative reference, we might not reclaim MADV_FREE folios as we silently mark them as swapbacked again, which sounds fairly wrong.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb