From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add PageMlocked() page state bit and lru infrastructure
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:51:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070215145138.GT10108@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702141829410.5747@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:30:06PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > I think we should be much more precise in documenting the semantics of
> > these bits. This particular comment is imprecise enough to be
> > incorrect. This bit being set indicates that we saw that it was
> > mlocked at some point in the past, not any guarantee that it's mlocked
> > now. And the same for the converse.
>
> See further down in the patch. The semantics are described when the
> PageMlockedXXX ops are defined.
Fine. But -this- comment is still incorrect. If someone were to ask
"what does this bit mean?" they would go the list of bit definitions
and leave with the -wrong- answer. The page is not necessarily
mlocked, it's just on the lazy mlock list.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-15 1:24 [PATCH 0/7] Move mlocked pages off the LRU and track them V1 Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make try_to_unmap return a special exit code Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add PageMlocked() page state bit and lru infrastructure Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 2:09 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-15 2:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 14:51 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-02-15 15:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 15:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-02-15 16:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:25 ` [PATCH 3/7] Add NR_MLOCK ZVC Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:25 ` [PATCH 4/7] Logic to move mlocked pages Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 5:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 15:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 5:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 15:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:25 ` [PATCH 5/7] Consolidate new anonymous page code paths Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:25 ` [PATCH 6/7] Avoid putting new mlocked anonymous pages on LRU Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 1:25 ` [PATCH 7/7] Opportunistically move mlocked pages off the LRU Christoph Lameter
2007-02-15 4:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-02-15 15:15 ` Christoph Lameter
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