On Tue, 31 May 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > /* Our goal here is to return as much of the memory as > > * is possible back to the system as we are called from OOM. > > * To do this we must instruct the shmfs to drop all of its > > - * backing pages, *now*. Here we mirror the actions taken > > - * when by shmem_delete_inode() to release the backing store. > > + * backing pages, *now*. > > */ > > inode = obj->base.filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode; > > - truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0); > > if (inode->i_op->truncate_range) > > inode->i_op->truncate_range(inode, 0, (loff_t)-1); > > + else > > + truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0); > > Given that it relies on beeing on shmemfs it should just call it > directly. As agreed in other mail, I'll do a v2 series in a few days, making that change - thanks. Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>