reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() assumes that shrink_page_list() returns number of pages removed from the candidate list. But shrink_page_list() puts back mlocked pages without passing it to caller and without counting as nr_reclaimed. This incurrs increasing nr_isolated. To fix this, this patch changes shrink_page_list() to pass unevictable pages back to caller. Caller will take care those pages.
Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31....@samsung.com> --- Changes since v1 1/ changed subject from vmscan: reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() must count mlocked pages 2/ changed to return unevictable pages rather than returning the number of unevictable pages mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 5e8eadd..a4b2d07 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ cull_mlocked: if (PageSwapCache(page)) try_to_free_swap(page); unlock_page(page); - putback_lru_page(page); + list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages); continue; activate_locked: -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/