Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755928AbbGTT0e (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:26:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50292 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754044AbbGTT0b (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:26:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:24:40 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Jeff Moyer , Andrew Morton , Joonsoo Kim , Fengguang Wu , Johannes Weiner , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm-move-mremap-from-file_operations-to-vm_operations_struct-fix Message-ID: <20150720192440.GA20573@redhat.com> References: <20150716231405.GA25147@redhat.com> <20150716162444.26425f5e227387f1166a6d16@linux-foundation.org> <20150716235227.GA26551@redhat.com> <20150717140615.GA2779@kvack.org> <20150717223147.GA13259@redhat.com> <20150720173311.GA4379@redhat.com> <20150720175145.GH21558@kvack.org> <20150720183150.GA6868@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150720183150.GA6868@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 27 On 07/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > But again, again, please ignore. This all is off-topic and my understanding > is very limited. Yes, yes, but sorry for noise and let me repeat... This memory lives in page-cache/lru, it is visible for shrinker which will unmap these pages for no reason on memory shortage. IOW, aio fools the kernel, this memory looks reclaimable but it is not. And we only do this for migration. Even if this is not a problem, this does not look right. So perhaps at least mapping_set_unevictable() makes sense. But I simply do not know if migration will work with this change. And I should have changes the subject a long ago... So what do you think we should do with the build failure? Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/