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