From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:18:40 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: [PATCH] fix page_launder() reactivation
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Hi Alan,

here's a quick fix to make page_launder() not move
pages under ->writepage() back to the active list.

regards,

Rik
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--- linux-2.4.8-ac8/mm/vmscan.c.orig	Tue Aug 21 21:10:03 2001
+++ linux-2.4.8-ac8/mm/vmscan.c	Tue Aug 21 21:11:05 2001
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
 		/* Page is or was in use?  Move it to the active list. */
 		if (PageReferenced(page) || page->age > 0 ||
 				page_count(page) > (1 + !!page->buffers) ||
-				page_ramdisk(page)) {
+				page_ramdisk(page) && !PageLocked(page)) {
 			del_page_from_inactive_dirty_list(page);
 			add_page_to_active_list(page);
 			continue;

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