Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Prevent activation of page in madvise_dontneed

[Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:

> Now zap_pte_range alwayas activates pages which are pte_young &&
> !VM_SequentialReadHint(vma). But in case of calling MADV_DONTNEED,
> it's unnecessary since the page wouldn't use any more.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> 
> Changelog since v2:
>  - remove unnecessary description
> Changelog since v1: 
>  - change word from promote to activate
>  - add activate argument to zap_pte_range and family function
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h |    4 ++--
>  mm/madvise.c       |    4 ++--
>  mm/memory.c        |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  mm/mmap.c          |    4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

Everyone else seems pretty happy with this, and I've not checked
at all whether it achieves your purpose; but personally I'd much
prefer a smaller patch which adds your "activate" or "ignore_references"
flag to struct zap_details, instead of passing this exceptional arg
down lots of levels.  That's precisely the purpose of zap_details,
to gather together a few things that aren't needed in the common case
(though I admit the NULL details defaulting may be ugly).

Hugh

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