From: MinChan Kim Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:32:44 +0000 (-0700) Subject: vmscan: prevent shrinking of active anon lru list in case of no swap space V3 X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~27882^2~110 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69c854817566db82c362797b4a6521d0b00fe1d8;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git vmscan: prevent shrinking of active anon lru list in case of no swap space V3 shrink_zone() can deactivate active anon pages even if we don't have a swap device. Many embedded products don't have a swap device. So the deactivation of anon pages is unnecessary. This patch prevents unnecessary deactivation of anon lru pages. But, it don't prevent aging of anon pages to swap out. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 7592d8eb1148..879d034930c4 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone, * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio. */ - if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc)) + if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc) && nr_swap_pages > 0) shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0); throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);