> + /*
> + * XXX: This is the Holy Hand Grenade of PotentiallyInvalidMapping. As
> + * the page lock has been dropped by ->writepage, that mapping could
> + * be anything
> + */
Why is this an XXX comment?
> + /*
> + * Wait on writeback if requested to. This happens when
> + * direct reclaiming a large contiguous area and the
> + * first attempt to free a range of pages fails.
> + */
> + if (PageWriteback(page) && sync_writeback == PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC)
> + wait_on_page_writeback(page);
> +
> + if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
> + /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
> + ClearPageReclaim(page);
> + }
how about:
if (PageWriteback(page) {
if (sync_writeback == PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC)
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
} else {
/* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
ClearPageReclaim(page);
}
> if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping->backing_dev_info))
> return PAGE_KEEP;
>
> /*
> + * Clean a list of pages. It is expected that all the pages on page_list have been
> + * locked as part of isolation from the LRU.
A rather pointless line of 80 chars. I see the point for long string
literals, but here's it's just a pain.
> + *
> + * XXX: Is there a problem with holding multiple page locks like this?
I think there is. There's quite a few places that do hold multiple
pages locked, but they always lock pages in increasing page->inxex order.
Given that this locks basically in random order it could cause problems
for those places.
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