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    mm/munlock: maintain page->mlock_count while unevictable · 07ca7606
    Hugh Dickins authored
    Previous patches have been preparatory: now implement page->mlock_count.
    The ordering of the "Unevictable LRU" is of no significance, and there is
    no point holding unevictable pages on a list: place page->mlock_count to
    overlay page->lru.prev (since page->lru.next is overlaid by compound_head,
    which needs to be even so as not to satisfy PageTail - though 2 could be
    added instead of 1 for each mlock, if that's ever an improvement).
    
    But it's only safe to rely on or modify page->mlock_count while lruvec
    lock is held and page is on unevictable "LRU" - we can save lots of edits
    by continuing to pretend that there's an imaginary LRU here (there is an
    unevictable count which still needs to be maintained, but not a list).
    
    The mlock_count technique suffers from an unreliability much like with
    page_mlock(): while someone else has the page off LRU, not much can
    be done.  As before, err on the safe side (behave as if mlock_count 0),
    and let try_to_unlock_one() move the page to unevictable if reclaim finds
    out later on - a few misplaced pages don't matter, what we want to avoid
    is imbalancing reclaim by flooding evictable lists with unevictable pages.
    
    I am not a fan of "if (!isolate_lru_page(page)) putback_lru_page(page);":
    if we have taken lruvec lock to get the page off its present list, then
    we save everyone trouble (and however many extra atomic ops) by putting
    it on its destination list immediately.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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