Yu Zhao
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To activate a page, mark_page_accessed() always holds a reference on it. It either gets a new reference when adding a page to lru_pvecs.activate_page or reuses an existing one it previously got when it added a page to lru_pvecs.lru_add. So it doesn't call SetPageActive() on a page that doesn't have any reference left. Therefore, the race is impossible these days (I didn't brother to dig into its history). For other paths, namely reclaim and migration, a reference count is always held while calling SetPageActive() on a page. SetPageSlabPfmemalloc() also uses SetPageActive(), but it's irrelevant to LRU pages. Change-Id: I1fa1072b72751c2ce229f0407374c51e25762828 Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200818184704.3625199-2-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.