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| author |   Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2020-04-06 20:04:41 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-07 10:43:38 -0700 |
| commit | 9de4f22a60f731943f050f4448bf2933ed3fa70b (patch) | |
| tree | a748811bb7451c957caf32df4cbd67fa28e1013b /include/linux/page-flags.h | |
| parent | mm/ksm.c: update get_user_pages() argument in comment (diff) | |
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mm: code cleanup for MADV_FREE
Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand
the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked. This makes
page_is_file_cache() isn't consistent with its comments. So the function
is renamed to page_is_file_lru() to make them consistent again. All these
are put in one patch as one logical change.
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317100342.2730705-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-flags.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 77de28bfefb0..acf7988fd640 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ * page_waitqueue(page) is a wait queue of all tasks waiting for the page * to become unlocked. * + * PG_swapbacked is set when a page uses swap as a backing storage. This are + * usually PageAnon or shmem pages but please note that even anonymous pages + * might lose their PG_swapbacked flag when they simply can be dropped (e.g. as + * a result of MADV_FREE). + * * PG_uptodate tells whether the page's contents is valid. When a read * completes, the page becomes uptodate, unless a disk I/O error happened. * |