Re: [PATCH 14/17] mm: Do not use atomic operations when releasing pages

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On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:29:22AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > There should be no references to it any more and a parallel mark should
> > not be reordered against us. Use non-locked varient to clear page active.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  mm/swap.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> > index f2228b7..7a5bdd7 100644
> > --- a/mm/swap.c
> > +++ b/mm/swap.c
> > @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
> >  		}
> >  
> >  		/* Clear Active bit in case of parallel mark_page_accessed */
> > -		ClearPageActive(page);
> > +		__ClearPageActive(page);
> 
> Shouldn't this comment be removed also?

Why? We're still clearing the active bit.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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