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Andrew Morton authored
Removal of PG_launder. It's not obvious (to me) why this ever existed. If it's to prevent deadlocks then I'd like to know who was performing __GFP_FS allocations while holding a page lock? But in 2.5, the only memory allocations which are performed when the caller holds PG_writeback against an unsubmitted page are those which occur inside submit_bh(). There will be no __GFS_FS allocations in that call chain. Removing PG_launder means that memory allocators can block on any PageWriteback() page at all, which reduces the risk of very long list walks inside pagemap_lru_lock in shrink_cache().
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