Resurrect may_swap in struct scan_control Patch against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 to undo the patch to remove may_writepage. Not needed for 2.6.14 / 2.6.15-rc6. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.15/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.15.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2006-01-10 09:43:04.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.15/mm/vmscan.c 2006-01-10 09:44:00.000000000 -0800 @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ struct scan_control { int may_writepage; + /* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */ + int may_swap; + /* This context's SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. If freeing memory for * suspend, we effectively ignore SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. * In this context, it doesn't matter that we scan the @@ -458,6 +461,8 @@ static int shrink_list(struct list_head * Try to allocate it some swap space here. */ if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) { + if (!sc->may_swap) + goto keep_locked; if (!add_to_swap(page, GFP_ATOMIC)) goto activate_locked; } @@ -1177,6 +1182,7 @@ int try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zone sc.gfp_mask = gfp_mask; sc.may_writepage = 0; + sc.may_swap = 1; inc_page_state(allocstall); @@ -1279,6 +1285,7 @@ loop_again: total_reclaimed = 0; sc.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL; sc.may_writepage = 0; + sc.may_swap = 1; sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped); inc_page_state(pageoutrun);