On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 11:53 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> If we do need the extra refcount, why is normal
> page migration safe? :)
Its mostly a matter of how convoluted you make the code, regular page
migration is about as bad as you can get
Normal does:
follow_page(FOLL_GET) +1
isolate_lru_page() +1
put_page() -1
ending up with a page with a single reference (for anon, or one extra
each for the mapping and buffer).
And while I suppose I could do a put_page() in migrate_misplaced_page()
that makes the function frob the page-count depending on the return
value.
I always try and avoid conditional locks/refs, therefore the code ends
up doing:
page = vm_normal_page()
if (page) {
get_page()
migrate_misplaced_page()
put_page()
}
where migrate_misplaced_page() does isolate_lru_page()/putback_lru_page,
and this leaves the page-count invariant.
We got a ref, therefore we must put a ref, is easier than we got a ref
and must put except when...
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