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mm: fix anonymous dirtying
authorHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:03:29 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:28:07 +0000 (08:28 -0700)
commit5d6ac1a7861f806ee68810a08a7064fec15477ed
tree3bf9fddbca35aa7b99ab87de4d48e8b039dad7a7
parent30f5582a68a013f742657c3f2b8737f0c5ad6c79
mm: fix anonymous dirtying

commit 1ac0cb5d0e22d5e483f56b2bc12172dec1cf7536 upstream.

do_anonymous_page() has been wrong to dirty the pte regardless.
If it's not going to mark the pte writable, then it won't help
to mark it dirty here, and clogs up memory with pages which will
need swap instead of being thrown away.  Especially wrong if no
overcommit is chosen, and this vma is not yet VM_ACCOUNTed -
we could exceed the limit and OOM despite no overcommit.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/memory.c