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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] Swap Migration V5: LRU operations
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> +static void lru_add_drain_per_cpu(void *dummy)
> +{
> + lru_add_drain();
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Isolate one page from the LRU lists and put it on the
> + * indicated list. Do necessary cache draining if the
> + * page is not on the LRU lists yet.
> + *
> + * Result:
> + * 0 = page not on LRU list
> + * 1 = page removed from LRU list and added to the specified list.
> + * -1 = page is being freed elsewhere.
> + */
> +int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + int rc = 0;
> + struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
> +
> +redo:
> + spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> + rc = __isolate_lru_page(zone, page);
> + spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> + if (rc == 0) {
> + /*
> + * Maybe this page is still waiting for a cpu to drain it
> + * from one of the lru lists?
> + */
> + smp_call_function(&lru_add_drain_per_cpu, NULL, 0 , 1);

lru_add_drain() ends up doing spin_unlock_irq(), so we'll enable interrupts
within the smp_call_function() handler. Is that legal on all
architectures?

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