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Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:28:21 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm/vmscan: fix misleading comment in
 isolate_lru_pages()
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On Sat 10-07-21 18:03:29, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We couldn't know whether the page is being freed elsewhere until we failed
> to increase the page count.

This is moving a hard to understand comment from one place to another.
If anything this would benefit from what that elsewhere might be
typically or simply drop the comment altogether.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index a74760c48bd8..6e26b3c93242 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1891,7 +1891,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
>  		 */
>  		scan += nr_pages;
>  		if (!__isolate_lru_page_prepare(page, mode)) {
> -			/* It is being freed elsewhere */
>  			list_move(&page->lru, src);
>  			continue;
>  		}
> @@ -1901,6 +1900,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
>  		 * page release code relies on it.
>  		 */
>  		if (unlikely(!get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
> +			/* It is being freed elsewhere. */
>  			list_move(&page->lru, src);
>  			continue;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.23.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs