Re: [PATCH v4] mm: add replace_page_cache_page() function

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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:27:33 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:28:44 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:18:11 +0100
> > Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > +int replace_page_cache_page(struct page *old, struct page *new, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > > +{
> > > +	int error;
> > > +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
> > 
> > I'm suspecting that the unneeded initialisation was added to suppress a
> > warning?
> > 
> No.
> It's necessary for mem_cgroup_{prepare|end}_migration().
> mem_cgroup_prepare_migration() will return without doing anything in
> "if (mem_cgroup_disabled()" case(iow, "memcg" is not overwritten),
> but mem_cgroup_end_migration() depends on the value of "memcg" to decide
> whether prepare_migration has succeeded or not.
> This may not be a good implementation, but IMHO I'd like to to initialize
> valuable before using it in general.
> 

I think it can be initlized in mem_cgroup_prepare_migration().
I'll send patch later.

Thanks,
-Kame

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