Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2012-12-20

Re: [PATCH] CMA: call to putback_lru_pages

From: Michal Nazarewicz <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-17 22:24:25

[+marek]

On Mon, Dec 17 2012, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
As per documentation and other places calling putback_lru_pages,
on error only, except for CMA. I am not sure this is a problem
for CMA or not.
If ret >= 0 than the list is empty anyway so the effect of this patch is
to save a function call.  It's also true that other callers call it only
on error so __alloc_contig_migrate_range() is an odd man out here.  As
such:

Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 83637df..5a887bf 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5802,8 +5802,8 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,
 				    alloc_migrate_target,
 				    0, false, MIGRATE_SYNC);
 	}
-
-	putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
 	return ret > 0 ? 0 : ret;
 }
-- 
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