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From:   Pankaj Suryawanshi <pankaj.suryawanshi@einfochips.com>
To:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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        "minchan@kernel.org" <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [External] Re: vmscan: Reclaim unevictable pages
Thread-Topic: Re: [External] Re: vmscan: Reclaim unevictable pages
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Hello ,

Please ignore the curly braces, they are just for debugging.

Below is the updated patch.


diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index be56e2e..12ac353 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head =
*page_list,
                sc->nr_scanned++;

                if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page)))
-                       goto activate_locked;
+                      goto cull_mlocked;

                if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
                        goto keep_locked;
@@ -1331,7 +1331,12 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_he=
ad *page_list,
                } else
                        list_add(&page->lru, &free_pages);
                continue;
-
+cull_mlocked:
+                if (PageSwapCache(page))
+                        try_to_free_swap(page);
+                unlock_page(page);
+                list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
+                continue;
 activate_locked:
                /* Not a candidate for swapping, so reclaim swap space. */
                if (PageSwapCache(page) && (mem_cgroup_swap_full(page) ||


Regards,
Pankaj


From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Sent: 14 March 2019 14:55:34
To: Pankaj Suryawanshi; Michal Hocko
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; minchan@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [External] Re: vmscan: Reclaim unevictable pages


On 14.03.2019 11:52, Pankaj Suryawanshi wrote:
>
> I am using kernel version 4.14.65 (on Android pie [ARM]).
>
> No additional patches applied on top of vanilla.(Core MM).
>
> If  I change in the vmscan.c as below patch, it will work.

Sorry, but 4.14.65 does not have braces around trylock_page(),
like in your patch below.

See   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree=
/mm/vmscan.c?h=3Dv4.14.65

[...]

>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>> index be56e2e..2e51edc 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -990,15 +990,17 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_=
head *page_list,
>>                  page =3D lru_to_page(page_list);
>>                  list_del(&page->lru);
>>
>>                 if (!trylock_page(page)) {
>>                          goto keep;
>>                 }

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