Re: [PATCH -mm] split_lru: fix pagevec_move_tail() doesn't treat unevictable page

["MinChan Kim" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> even under writebacking, page can move to unevictable list.
> so shouldn't pagevec_move_tail() check unevictable?
>
Hi, Kosaki-san.

I can't understand this race situation.
How the page can move to unevictable list while it is under writeback?

Could you explain for me ? :)

> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> ---
>  mm/swap.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: b/mm/swap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void pagevec_move_tail(struct pag
>                        zone = pagezone;
>                        spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock);
>                }
> -               if (PageLRU(page) && !PageActive(page)) {
> +               if (PageLRU(page) && !PageActive(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
>                        int lru = page_is_file_cache(page);
>                        list_move_tail(&page->lru, &zone->lru[lru].list);
>                        pgmoved++;
>
>
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Kinds regards,
MinChan Kim

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