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    mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc · 42cb14b1
    Hugh Dickins authored
    clear_page_dirty_for_io() has accumulated writeback and memcg subtleties
    since v2.6.16 first introduced page migration; and the set_page_dirty()
    which completed its migration of PageDirty, later had to be moderated to
    __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(); then PageSwapBacked had to skip that too.
    
    No actual problems seen with this procedure recently, but if you look into
    what the clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)+set_page_dirty(newpage) is actually
    achieving, it turns out to be nothing more than moving the PageDirty flag,
    and its NR_FILE_DIRTY stat from one zone to another.
    
    It would be good to avoid a pile of irrelevant decrementations and
    incrementations, and improper event counting, and unnecessary descent of
    the radix_tree under tree_lock (to set the PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY which
    radix_tree_replace_slot() left in place anyway).
    
    Do the NR_FILE_DIRTY movement, like the other stats movements, while
    interrupts still disabled in migrate_page_move_mapping(); and don't even
    bother if the zone is the same.  Do the PageDirty movement there under
    tree_lock too, where old page is frozen and newpage not yet visible:
    bearing in mind that as soon as newpage becomes visible in radix_tree, an
    un-page-locked set_page_dirty() might interfere (or perhaps that's just
    not possible: anything doing so should already hold an additional
    reference to the old page, preventing its migration; but play safe).
    
    But we do still need to transfer PageDirty in migrate_page_copy(), for
    those who don't go the mapping route through migrate_page_move_mapping().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
    Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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