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    ksm: enable KSM page migration · b79bc0a0
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    Migration of KSM pages is now safe: remove the PageKsm restrictions from
    mempolicy.c and migrate.c.
    
    But keep PageKsm out of __unmap_and_move()'s anon_vma contortions, which
    are irrelevant to KSM: it looks as if that code was preventing hotremove
    migration of KSM pages, unless they happened to be in swapcache.
    
    There is some question as to whether enforcing a NUMA mempolicy migration
    ought to migrate KSM pages, mapped into entirely unrelated processes; but
    moving page_mapcount > 1 is only permitted with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL anyway,
    and it seems reasonable to assume that you wouldn't set MADV_MERGEABLE on
    any area where this is a worry.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
    Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.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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