[PATCH] do_wp_page: cannot share file page
A small optimization to do_wp_page's check for whether to avoid copy by
reusing the page already mapped. It can never share a cached file page,
nor can it share a reserved page (often the empty zero page), so it's a
waste of time to lock and unlock in those cases. Which nowadays can both
be neatly excluded by a preliminary PageAnon test.
Christoph has reported that a preliminary page_count test proved valuable
for scalability here, but PageAnon covers more common cases all at once.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index b8846cf..1c0a3db 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@
}
old_page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- if (!TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) {
+ if (PageAnon(old_page) && !TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) {
int reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
unlock_page(old_page);
if (reuse) {