[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap

Add PF_SWAPWRITE to control a processes permission to write to swap.

- Use PF_SWAPWRITE in may_write_to_queue() instead of checking for kswapd
  and pdflush

- Set PF_SWAPWRITE flag for kswapd and pdflush

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 261a56ee11b6..6c30a8c59795 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -268,9 +268,7 @@ static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
 
 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 {
-        if (current_is_kswapd())
-                return 1;
-        if (current_is_pdflush())       /* This is unlikely, but why not... */
+        if (current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE)
                 return 1;
         if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
                 return 1;
@@ -1299,7 +1297,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
          * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
          * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
          */
-        tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD;
+        tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
 
         order = 0;
         for ( ; ; ) {