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Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag

From Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag
Date 2017-02-16 18:50 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:36:07AM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> There are a few places the code assumes anonymous pages should have
> SwapBacked flag set. MADV_FREE pages are anonymous pages but we are
> going to add them to LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list and clear SwapBacked flag
> for them. The assumption doesn't hold any more, so fix them.
> 
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

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[PATCH V3 1/7] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> - 2017-02-14 20:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked  flag Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2017-02-16 18:50 +0100

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