On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1626,9 +1626,10 @@
>                        */
>                       page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address,
>                                                        &ptl);
> -                     page_cache_release(old_page);
> +                     new_page = NULL;
>                       if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))
>                               goto unlock;
> +                     page_cache_release(old_page);
>  
>                       page_mkwrite = 1;
>               }

This is deferring frees and not moving the callouts. KVM specific? What 
exactly is this doing?

A significant portion of this seems to be undoing what the first patch 
did.

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