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    mm: page migration avoid touching newpage until no going back · cf4b769a
    Hugh Dickins authored
    We have had trouble in the past from the way in which page migration's
    newpage is initialized in dribs and drabs - see commit 8bdd6380
    
     ("mm:
    fix direct reclaim writeback regression") which proposed a cleanup.
    
    We have no actual problem now, but I think the procedure would be clearer
    (and alternative get_new_page pools safer to implement) if we assert that
    newpage is not touched until we are sure that it's going to be used -
    except for taking the trylock on it in __unmap_and_move().
    
    So shift the early initializations from move_to_new_page() into
    migrate_page_move_mapping(), mapping and NULL-mapping paths.  Similarly
    migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(), but its NULL-mapping path can just be
    deleted: you cannot reach hugetlbfs_migrate_page() with a NULL mapping.
    
    Adjust stages 3 to 8 in the Documentation file accordingly.
    
    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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