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SubjectRe: 230-objrmap fixes for 2.6.3-mjb2
--Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote (on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 02:58:20 -0800):

> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>> --- sles-objrmap/mm/rmap.c.~1~ 2004-03-03 06:45:38.995594456 +0100
>> +++ sles-objrmap/mm/rmap.c 2004-03-03 07:01:39.200621104 +0100
>> @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ try_to_unmap_obj_one(struct vm_area_stru
>> if (!pte)
>> goto out;
>>
>> - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
>> + if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED)) {
>> ret = SWAP_FAIL;
>> goto out_unmap;
>
> I keep on wanting to put that in there too. But pages in a VM_RESERVED vma
> should not find their way onto the LRU. Maybe we should be checking for
> that in do_no_page().

There was talk at one point of moving the "unswappable" state down into
the struct page. Is that still realistic? It would seem rather more
efficient, but I forget what problem we ran into with it.

M.

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