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Miaohe Lin d17be2d9ff mm/vmscan: remove the PageDirty check after MADV_FREE pages are page_ref_freezed
Patch series "Cleanups for vmscan", v2.

This series contains cleanups to remove unneeded return value, misleading
setting and so on.  Also this remove the PageDirty check after MADV_FREE
pages are page_ref_freezed.  More details can be found in the respective
changelogs.

This patch (of 4):

If the MADV_FREE pages are redirtied before they could be reclaimed, put
the pages back to anonymous LRU list by setting SwapBacked flag and the
pages will be reclaimed in normal swapout way.  But as Yu Zhao pointed
out, "The page has only one reference left, which is from the isolation.
After the caller puts the page back on lru and drops the reference, the
page will be freed anyway.  It doesn't matter which lru it goes." So we
don't bother checking PageDirty here.

[Yu Zhao's comment is also quoted in the code.]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-2-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:17 -07:00
arch microblaze: simplify pte_alloc_one_kernel() 2021-09-03 09:58:15 -07:00
block mm: remove flush_kernel_dcache_page 2021-09-03 09:58:13 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto crypto: drbg - select SHA512 2021-07-16 15:49:31 +08:00
Documentation mm/migrate: add sysfs interface to enable reclaim migration 2021-09-03 09:58:16 -07:00
drivers mm: sparse: pass section_nr to find_memory_block 2021-09-03 09:58:14 -07:00
fs userfaultfd: prevent concurrent API initialization 2021-09-03 09:58:16 -07:00
include mm/vmpressure: replace vmpressure_to_css() with vmpressure_to_memcg() 2021-09-03 09:58:17 -07:00
init init: Suppress wrong warning for bootconfig cmdline parameter 2021-08-12 13:35:57 -04:00
ipc memcg: enable accounting of ipc resources 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
kernel memcg: enable accounting for posix_timers_cache slab 2021-09-03 09:58:13 -07:00
lib kasan: test: avoid corrupting memory in kasan_rcu_uaf 2021-09-03 09:58:15 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm/vmscan: remove the PageDirty check after MADV_FREE pages are page_ref_freezed 2021-09-03 09:58:17 -07:00
net This is a one-liner fix for a serious bug that can cause the server to 2021-08-26 13:26:40 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 (2nd) 2021-08-07 10:03:02 -07:00
security mm/pagemap: add mmap_assert_locked() annotations to find_vma*() 2021-09-03 09:58:13 -07:00
sound another sound-fixes for 5.14-rc7 2021-08-20 12:31:10 -07:00
tools selftests/vm/userfaultfd: wake after copy failure 2021-09-03 09:58:16 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories 2021-08-04 06:02:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: exfat: update my email address 2021-08-25 12:25:12 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14 2021-08-29 15:04:50 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.