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mm: fix page-faults detection in swap-token logic
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:20 +0000 (10:50 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:53:27 +0000 (14:53 +1000)
commitdbc8b9b9bf3264ed74c5daf0dfcc487e1cd1d245
tree159b9a4d3c4347b03a5fb61b4ee37efb4e69ee2e
parent66ab31b31cab0c304eb83ec01a5e91b3b7a96520
mm: fix page-faults detection in swap-token logic

After commit v2.6.36-5896-gd065bd8 "mm: retry page fault when blocking on
disk transfer" we usually wait in page-faults without mmap_sem held, so
all swap-token logic was broken, because it based on using
rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem) as sign of in progress page-faults.

Add an atomic counter of in progress page-faults for mm to the mm_struct
with swap-token.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
include/linux/mm_types.h
include/linux/swap.h
kernel/fork.c
mm/memory.c
mm/rmap.c