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Added slightly more detail to the Documentation of merge_across_nodes, a
few comments in areas indicated by review, and renamed get_ksm_page()'s
argument from "locked" to "lock_it".  No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins
2013-02-22 16:36:03 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 49cd0a5c29
commit 8fdb3dbf02
2 changed files with 27 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
* take 10 attempts to find a page in the unstable tree, once it is found,
* it is secured in the stable tree. (When we scan a new page, we first
* compare it against the stable tree, and then against the unstable tree.)
*
* If the merge_across_nodes tunable is unset, then KSM maintains multiple
* stable trees and multiple unstable trees: one of each for each NUMA node.
*/
/**
@@ -526,7 +529,7 @@ static void remove_node_from_stable_tree(struct stable_node *stable_node)
* a page to put something that might look like our key in page->mapping.
* is on its way to being freed; but it is an anomaly to bear in mind.
*/
static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct stable_node *stable_node, bool locked)
static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct stable_node *stable_node, bool lock_it)
{
struct page *page;
void *expected_mapping;
@@ -575,7 +578,7 @@ again:
goto stale;
}
if (locked) {
if (lock_it) {
lock_page(page);
if (ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping) {
unlock_page(page);
@@ -705,10 +708,17 @@ static int remove_stable_node(struct stable_node *stable_node)
return 0;
}
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page)))
err = -EBUSY;
else {
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page))) {
/*
* This should not happen: but if it does, just refuse to let
* merge_across_nodes be switched - there is no need to panic.
*/
err = -EBUSY;
} else {
/*
* The stable node did not yet appear stale to get_ksm_page(),
* since that allows for an unmapped ksm page to be recognized
* right up until it is freed; but the node is safe to remove.
* This page might be in a pagevec waiting to be freed,
* or it might be PageSwapCache (perhaps under writeback),
* or it might have been removed from swapcache a moment ago.