Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the tip tree

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:10:44AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in 
> > mm/migrate.c between the tip tree and commit "mm: memcg: fix 
> > compaction/migration failing due to memcg limits" from the 
> > akpm tree.
> > 
> > The commit 4783af477d3d ("mm: Migrate misplaced page") was 
> > removed (among several others) from the tip tree since 
> > yesterday (and thus linux-next) so the above akpm tree patch 
> > no longer applies.
> > 
> > I have dropped this patch form the akpm tree (and the following patches
> > as well:
> > mm-memcg-fix-compaction-migration-failing-due-to-memcg-limits-checkpatch-fixes
> > mm: memcg: push down PageSwapCache check into uncharge entry functions
> > mm: memcg: only check for PageSwapCache when uncharging anon
> > mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
> > mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
> > )
> > 
> > Hopefully this doesn't cause other problems.  I guess that 
> > they will need rebasing depending on what gets merged via the 
> > tip tree.
> 
> Andrew, sorry about this last minute fallout: I felt that 
> sched/numa was still not fully cooked and did not want to hold 
> up the rest of the scheduler tree on that - nor did I want to 
> send an uncooked tree to Linus.
> 
> PeterZ posted another series of sched/numa patches two days ago 
> - once that is ready (probably after the merge window) it will 
> all reappear again, in a slightly different form. I could stick 
> the mm/ bits into a separate tree to make it easier for you.

As this is unlikely to reappear in this merge window, the conflict
resolution is quite simple.  All that's needed is remove the 3 hunks
from my patch that converted a user in Peter's patch to a new API.  I
can resend the series if needed, but it's probably easier to just
remove the hunks against mm/migrate.c::migrate_misplaced_page():

@@ -1519,10 +1512,9 @@ migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
 {
 	struct page *oldpage = page, *newpage;
 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-	struct mem_cgroup *mcg;
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	unsigned int gfp;
 	int rc = 0;
-	int charge = -ENOMEM;
 
 	VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 	VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page));
@@ -1556,12 +1548,7 @@ migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
 	if (!trylock_page(newpage))
 		BUG();		/* new page should be unlocked!!! */
 
-	// XXX hnaz, is this right?
-	charge = mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(page, newpage, &mcg, gfp);
-	if (charge == -ENOMEM) {
-		rc = charge;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(page, newpage, &memcg);
 
 	newpage->index = page->index;
 	newpage->mapping = page->mapping;
@@ -1581,11 +1568,9 @@ migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
 		page = newpage;
 	}
 
+	mem_cgroup_end_migration(memcg, oldpage, newpage, !rc);
 out:
-	if (!charge)
-		mem_cgroup_end_migration(mcg, oldpage, newpage, !rc);
-
-       if (oldpage != page)
+	if (oldpage != page)
                put_page(oldpage);
 
 	if (rc) {