> On Jul 26, 2019, at 1:44 AM, Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 07/25, Song Liu wrote:
>> 
>> I guess I know the case now. We can probably avoid this with an simple 
>> check for old_page == new_page?
> 
> better yet, I think we can check PageAnon(old_page) and avoid the unnecessary
> __replace_page() in this case. See the patch below.

I added PageAnon(old_page) check in v9 of the patch. 

> 
> Anyway, why __replace_page() needs to lock both pages? This doesn't look nice
> even if it were correct. I think it can do lock_page(old_page) later.
> 

Agreed. I have changed the v9 to only unmap old_page. So it should be cleaner. 

Thanks again for these good suggestions,
Song

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