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    Memory controller: make page_referenced() cgroup aware · bed7161a
    Balbir Singh authored
    Make page_referenced() cgroup aware.  Without this patch, page_referenced()
    can cause a page to be skipped while reclaiming pages.  This patch ensures
    that other cgroups do not hold pages in a particular cgroup hostage.  It
    is required to ensure that shared pages are freed from a cgroup when they
    are not actively referenced from the cgroup that brought them in
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
    Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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