Re: [PATCH 1/3] When migrate_pages returns 0, all pages must have been released
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2011-01-26 23:07:27
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:17:05 +0900 Minchan Kim [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted> From: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted> In some cases migrate_pages could return zero while still leaving a few pages in the pagelist (and some caller wouldn't notice it has to call putback_lru_pages after commit cf608ac19c95804dc2df43b1f4f9e068aa9034ab). Add one missing putback_lru_pages not added by commit cf608ac19c95804dc2df43b1f4f9e068aa9034ab. Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <redacted> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted>
Some patch administrivia:
a) you were on the delivery path for this patch, so you should have
added your signed-off-by:. I have made that change to my copy.
There's no harm in also having a Reviewed-by:, but Signed-off-by:
does imply that, we hope.
b) Andrea's From: line appeared twice.
c) Please choose patch titles which identify the subsystem which is
being patched. Plain old "mm:" will suit, although "mm:
compaction:" or "mm/compaction" would be nicer.
For some weird reason people keep on sending me patches with titles like
drivers: mmc: host: omap.c: frob the nozzle
or similar. I think there might be some documentation file which
(mis)leads them to do this. I simply do the utterly obvious and
convert it to
drivers/mmc/host/omap.c: frob the nozzle
duh.
d) Please don't identify patches via bare commit IDs. Because
commits can have different IDs in different trees. Instead use the
form cf608ac19c95 ("mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED
counting"). I end up having to do this operation multiple times a
day and it's dull. And sometimes I don't even have that commit ID
in any of my trees, because they were working against some other
tree.
Also note that the 40-character commit ID has been trimmed to 12
characters or so.
Thanks.
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