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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: do not use page_count without a page pin
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:41:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611144132.GT3094@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120611133043.GA2340@barrios>

Hi Minchan,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:30:43PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> AFAIUC, you mean we have to increase reference count of head page?
> If so, it's not in __count_immobile_pages because it is already race-likely function
> so it shouldn't be critical although race happens.

I meant, shouldn't we take into account the full size? If it's in the
lru the whole thing can be moved away.

  if (!PageLRU(page)) {
     nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
     barrier();
     found += nr_pages;
     iter += nr_pages-1;
  }

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-11  0:17 [PATCH] mm: do not use page_count without a page pin Minchan Kim
2012-06-11  0:23 ` Wanpeng Li
2012-06-11  2:09   ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-11  7:20 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-11  7:44   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-06-11  8:48     ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-11 13:30     ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-11 14:41       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2012-06-11 22:49         ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-14  1:21           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-06-14  1:49             ` Minchan Kim

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