The patch titled
mm/migrate.c: don't account swapcache as shmem
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-migratec-dont-account-swapcache-as-shmem.patch
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Subject: mm/migrate.c: don't account swapcache as shmem
From: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
swapcache will reach the below code path in migrate_page_move_mapping,
and swapcache is accounted as NR_FILE_PAGES but it's not accounted as
NR_SHMEM.
This can make the NR_SHMEM counter underflow.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/migrate.c~mm-migratec-dont-account-swapcache-as-shmem mm/migrate.c
--- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migratec-dont-account-swapcache-as-shmem
+++ a/mm/migrate.c
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(str
*/
__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
__inc_zone_page_state(newpage, NR_FILE_PAGES);
- if (PageSwapBacked(page)) {
+ if (mapping != &swapper_space && PageSwapBacked(page)) {
__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM);
__inc_zone_page_state(newpage, NR_SHMEM);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
mm-remove-khugepaged-double-thp-vmstat-update-with-config_numa=n.patch
mm-migratec-dont-account-swapcache-as-shmem.patch
pagewalk-fix-walk_page_range-dont-check-find_vma-result-properly.patch
pagewalk-dont-look-up-vma-if-walk-hugetlb_entry-is-unused.patch
pagewalk-add-locking-rule-comments.patch
pagewalk-add-locking-rule-comments-fix.patch
pagewalk-fix-code-comment-for-thp.patch
mm-hugepages-can-cause-negative-commitlimit.patch
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