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

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