From: Hugh Dickins tmpfs pages should be surfing the LRUs in the company of their filemap friends: I was expecting the rules to change, but they've been stable so long, let's sprinkle mark_page_accessed in the equivalent places here; but (don't ask me why) SetPageReferenced in shmem_file_write. Ooh, and shmem_populate was missing a flush_page_to_ram. mm/shmem.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/shmem.c~tmpfs-4-use-mark_page_accessed mm/shmem.c --- 25/mm/shmem.c~tmpfs-4-use-mark_page_accessed 2003-04-02 22:51:09.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/mm/shmem.c 2003-04-02 22:51:09.000000000 -0800 @@ -951,6 +951,7 @@ struct page *shmem_nopage(struct vm_area if (error) return (error == -ENOMEM)? NOPAGE_OOM: NOPAGE_SIGBUS; + mark_page_accessed(page); flush_page_to_ram(page); return page; } @@ -978,6 +979,8 @@ static int shmem_populate(struct vm_area if (err) return err; if (page) { + mark_page_accessed(page); + flush_page_to_ram(page); err = install_page(mm, vma, addr, page, prot); if (err) { page_cache_release(page); @@ -1192,6 +1195,8 @@ shmem_file_write(struct file *file, cons break; } + if (!PageReferenced(page)) + SetPageReferenced(page); set_page_dirty(page); page_cache_release(page); @@ -1264,13 +1269,20 @@ static void do_shmem_file_read(struct fi } nr -= offset; - /* If users can be writing to this page using arbitrary - * virtual addresses, take care about potential aliasing - * before reading the page on the kernel side. - */ - if (!list_empty(&mapping->i_mmap_shared) && - page != ZERO_PAGE(0)) - flush_dcache_page(page); + if (page != ZERO_PAGE(0)) { + /* + * If users can be writing to this page using arbitrary + * virtual addresses, take care about potential aliasing + * before reading the page on the kernel side. + */ + if (!list_empty(&mapping->i_mmap_shared)) + flush_dcache_page(page); + /* + * Mark the page accessed if we read the beginning. + */ + if (!offset) + mark_page_accessed(page); + } /* * Ok, we have the page, and it's up-to-date, so @@ -1523,6 +1535,7 @@ static int shmem_readlink(struct dentry return res; res = vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, kmap(page)); kunmap(page); + mark_page_accessed(page); page_cache_release(page); return res; } @@ -1535,6 +1548,7 @@ static int shmem_follow_link(struct dent return res; res = vfs_follow_link(nd, kmap(page)); kunmap(page); + mark_page_accessed(page); page_cache_release(page); return res; } _