Fix to the page reclaim code from Rik. Anonymous pages which have buffers arise when truncate_complete_page()'s call to ->releasepage() failed. Those pages may still be mapped into process address spaces. We should not remove them from the LRU, because that makes them unswappable and they hang around until process exit. vmscan.c | 12 ++---------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- 2.5.26/mm/vmscan.c~rmap-lru-fix Tue Jul 16 21:46:28 2002 +++ 2.5.26-akpm/mm/vmscan.c Tue Jul 16 21:59:41 2002 @@ -235,19 +235,11 @@ shrink_cache(int nr_pages, zone_t *class if (try_to_release_page(page, gfp_mask)) { if (!mapping) { - /* - * We must not allow an anon page - * with no buffers to be visible on - * the LRU, so we unlock the page after - * taking the lru lock - */ - spin_lock(&pagemap_lru_lock); - unlock_page(page); - __lru_cache_del(page); - /* effectively free the page here */ + unlock_page(page); page_cache_release(page); + spin_lock(&pagemap_lru_lock); if (--nr_pages) continue; break; .