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mm: memcontrol: clarify migration where old page is uncharged

Better explain re-entrant migration when compaction races with reclaim,
and also mention swapcache readahead pages as possible uncharged migration
sources.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner 10 years ago
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      mm/memcontrol.c

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mm/memcontrol.c

@@ -6157,7 +6157,12 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage,
 	if (PageCgroupUsed(pc))
 		return;
 
-	/* Re-entrant migration: old page already uncharged? */
+	/*
+	 * Swapcache readahead pages can get migrated before being
+	 * charged, and migration from compaction can happen to an
+	 * uncharged page when the PFN walker finds a page that
+	 * reclaim just put back on the LRU but has not released yet.
+	 */
 	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(oldpage);
 	if (!PageCgroupUsed(pc))
 		return;