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Commit fd3b1bc3 authored by Pavankumar Kondeti's avatar Pavankumar Kondeti Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/madvise: fix madvise_pageout for private file mappings

When MADV_PAGEOUT is called on a private file mapping VMA region, we bail
out early if the process is neither owner nor write capable of the file. 
However, this VMA may have both private/shared clean pages and private
dirty pages.  The opportunity of paging out the private dirty pages (Anon
pages) is missed.  Fix this behavior by allowing private file mappings
pageout further and perform the file access check along with PageAnon()
during page walk.

We observe ~10% improvement in zram usage, thus leaving more available
memory on a 4GB RAM system running Android.

[quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com: v2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1669962597-27724-1-git-send-email-quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1667971116-12900-1-git-send-email-quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPavankumar Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com>
Cc: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4c9473e8
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