Re: [PATCH v4] mm, drm/i915: mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

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On Mon 05-11-18 22:33:13, Kuo-Hsin Yang wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:02 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon 05-11-18 19:13:48, Kuo-Hsin Yang wrote:
[...]
> > > + * @pvec: pagevec with pages to check
> > >   *
> > > - * Checks pages for evictability and moves them to the appropriate lru list.
> > > - *
> > > - * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
> > > + * This function is only used to move shmem pages.
> >
> > I do not really see anything that would be shmem specific here. We can
> > use this function for any LRU pages unless I am missing something
> > obscure. I would just drop the last sentence.
> 
> OK, this function should not be specific to shmem pages.
> 
> Is it OK to remove the #ifdef SHMEM surrounding check_move_unevictable_pages?

Yes, I think so.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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