The patch titled Subject: mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration-fix It is possible for pages to be dirty after the check in reclaim_clean_pages_from_list so that it ends up paging out the pages, which is never what we want for speed up. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration-fix mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration-fix +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(st struct address_space *mapping; struct page *page; int may_enter_fs; - enum page_references references = PAGEREF_RECLAIM; + enum page_references references = PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN; cond_resched(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are memory-hotplug-reset-pgdat-kswapd-to-null-if-creating-kernel-thread-fails.patch linux-next.patch mm-remove-__gfp_no_kswapd.patch mm-fix-nonuniform-page-status-when-writing-new-file-with-small-buffer.patch mm-fix-nonuniform-page-status-when-writing-new-file-with-small-buffer-fix.patch mm-fix-nonuniform-page-status-when-writing-new-file-with-small-buffer-fix-fix.patch mm-compaction-update-comment-in-try_to_compact_pages.patch mm-vmscan-scale-number-of-pages-reclaimed-by-reclaim-compaction-based-on-failures.patch mm-vmscan-scale-number-of-pages-reclaimed-by-reclaim-compaction-based-on-failures-fix.patch mm-compaction-capture-a-suitable-high-order-page-immediately-when-it-is-made-available.patch mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration.patch mm-cma-discard-clean-pages-during-contiguous-allocation-instead-of-migration-fix.patch mm-move-all-mmu-notifier-invocations-to-be-done-outside-the-pt-lock-fix-fix.patch mm-page_alloc-use-get_freepage_migratetype-instead-of-page_private.patch mm-remain-migratetype-in-freed-page.patch memory-hotplug-bug-fix-race-between-isolation-and-allocation.patch memory-hotplug-fix-pages-missed-by-race-rather-than-failing.patch memory-hotplug-fix-pages-missed-by-race-rather-than-failng-fix.patch swap-add-a-simple-detector-for-inappropriate-swapin-readahead.patch swap-add-a-simple-detector-for-inappropriate-swapin-readahead-fix.patch mm-memblock-reduce-overhead-in-binary-search.patch mm-memblock-use-existing-interface-to-set-nid.patch mm-memblock-cleanup-early_node_map-related-comments.patch mm-compaction-abort-compaction-loop-if-lock-is-contended-or-run-too-long.patch mm-compaction-abort-compaction-loop-if-lock-is-contended-or-run-too-long-fix.patch mm-compaction-check-lock-contention-first-before-taking-lock.patch mm-page_alloc-refactor-out-__alloc_contig_migrate_alloc.patch mm-page_alloc-refactor-out-__alloc_contig_migrate_alloc-checkpatch-fixes.patch memory-hotplug-dont-replace-lowmem-pages-with-highmem.patch mm-compaction-move-fatal-signal-check-out-of-compact_checklock_irqsave.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html