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Commit 66635629 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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vmscan: set up pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list()



shrink_inactive_list() sets up a pagevec to release unfreeable pages.  It
uses significant amounts of stack doing this.  This patch splits
shrink_inactive_list() to take the stack usage out of the main path so
that callers to writepage() do not contain an unused pagevec on the stack.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d4debc66
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