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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm: prevent to add a page to swap if may_writepage is unset
On Wed,  9 Jan 2013 15:21:13 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:

> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -780,6 +780,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
> if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
> if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
> goto keep_locked;
> + if (!sc->may_writepage)
> + goto keep_locked;
> if (!add_to_swap(page))
> goto activate_locked;
> may_enter_fs = 1;

We should add a comment here explaining what's going on. But I can't
suggest anything which sounds rational because this looks so wrong :(



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