Re: [PATCH 3/7] remove putback_lru_pages() in hugepage migration context

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Hello,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Naoya Horiguchi
<n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This putback_lru_pages() is inserted at cf608ac19c to allow
> memory compaction to count the number of migration failed pages.
>
> But we should not do it for a hugepage because page->lru of a hugepage
> is used differently from that of a normal page:
>
>   in-use hugepage : page->lru is unlinked,
>   free hugepage   : page->lru is linked to the free hugepage list,
>
> so putting back hugepages to LRU lists collapses this rule.
> We just drop this change (without any impact on memory compaction.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>

As I said previously, It seems mistake during patch merge.
I didn't add it in my original patch. You can see my final patch.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/24/248

Anyway, I realized it recently so I sent the patch to Andrew.
Could you see this one?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/20/241

Thanks for notice me.



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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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