[PATCH v4] mm: Avoid unnecessary page fault retires on shared memory types

[Michael Ellerman]

Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com> writes:
> I observed that for each of the shared file-backed page faults, we're very
> likely to retry one more time for the 1st write fault upon no page.  It's
> because we'll need to release the mmap lock for dirty rate limit purpose
> with balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() (in fault_dirty_shared_page()).
>
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>  arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c |  5 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c       |  5 +++++

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers