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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 10f9c59aed55..5c596654bd37 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -495,15 +495,6 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping, return PAGE_ACTIVATE; } - /* - * Wait on writeback if requested to. This happens when - * direct reclaiming a large contiguous area and the - * first attempt to free a range of pages fails. - */ - if (PageWriteback(page) && - (sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC)) - wait_on_page_writeback(page); - if (!PageWriteback(page)) { /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */ ClearPageReclaim(page); @@ -804,12 +795,10 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, if (PageWriteback(page)) { /* - * Synchronous reclaim is performed in two passes, - * first an asynchronous pass over the list to - * start parallel writeback, and a second synchronous - * pass to wait for the IO to complete. Wait here - * for any page for which writeback has already - * started. + * Synchronous reclaim cannot queue pages for + * writeback due to the possibility of stack overflow + * but if it encounters a page under writeback, wait + * for the IO to complete. */ if ((sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC) && may_enter_fs) @@ -1414,7 +1403,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack void update_isolated_counts(struct zone *zone, } /* - * Returns true if the caller should wait to clean dirty/writeback pages. + * Returns true if a direct reclaim should wait on pages under writeback. * * If we are direct reclaiming for contiguous pages and we do not reclaim * everything in the list, try again and wait for writeback IO to complete. |