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SubjectRe: [121/136] mm: fix anonymous dirtying
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> > From: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
> >
> > commit 1ac0cb5d0e22d5e483f56b2bc12172dec1cf7536 upstream.
> >
> > do_anonymous_page() has been wrong to dirty the pte regardless.
> > If it's not going to mark the pte writable, then it won't help
> > to mark it dirty here, and clogs up memory with pages which will
> > need swap instead of being thrown away. Especially wrong if no
> > overcommit is chosen, and this vma is not yet VM_ACCOUNTed -
> > we could exceed the limit and OOM despite no overcommit.
>
> Thanks a lot for including this little fix in 2.6.31.2.
> It is equally relevant to both 2.6.27.36 and 2.6.30.9,
> so if not too late, please consider adding it into those too.

Ok, will do.

thanks,

greg k-h


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