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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2006-06-25 05:46:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-25 10:00:55 -0700
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[PATCH] Allow migration of mlocked pages
Hugh clarified the role of VM_LOCKED. So we can now implement page migration for mlocked pages. Allow the migration of mlocked pages. This means that try_to_unmap must unmap mlocked pages in the migration case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 0576c0535988..3f1e0c2c942c 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -616,15 +616,13 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
/*
* Establish migration ptes or remove ptes
*/
- if (try_to_unmap(page, 1) != SWAP_FAIL) {
- if (!page_mapped(page))
- rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page);
- } else
- /* A vma has VM_LOCKED set -> permanent failure */
- rc = -EPERM;
+ try_to_unmap(page, 1);
+ if (!page_mapped(page))
+ rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page);
if (rc)
remove_migration_ptes(page, page);
+
unlock:
unlock_page(page);