- 15 Dec, 2009 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
It has no references outside memory_hotplug.c. Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins authored
Now that ksm pages are swappable, and the known holes plugged, remove mention of unswappable kernel pages from KSM documentation and comments. Remove the totalram_pages/4 initialization of max_kernel_pages. In fact, remove max_kernel_pages altogether - we can reinstate it if removal turns out to break someone's script; but if we later want to limit KSM's memory usage, limiting the stable nodes would not be an effective approach. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
But ksm swapping does require one small change in mem cgroup handling. When do_swap_page()'s call to ksm_might_need_to_copy() does indeed substitute a duplicate page to accommodate a different anon_vma (or a the !PageSwapCache check in mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(). That was returning success without charging, on the assumption that pte_same() would fail after, which is not the case here. Originally I proposed that success, so that an unshrinkable mem cgroup at its limit would not fail unnecessarily; but that's a minor point, and there are plenty of other places where we may fail an overallocation which might later prove unnecessary. So just go ahead and do what all the other exceptions do: proceed to charge current mm. Signed-off-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
When ksm pages were unswappable, it made no sense to include them in mem cgroup accounting; but now that they are swappable (although I see no strict logical connection) the principle of least surprise implies that they should be accounted (with the usual dissatisfaction, that a shared page is accounted to only one of the cgroups using it). This patch was intended to add mem cgroup accounting where necessary; but turned inside out, it now avoids allocating a ksm page, instead upgrading an anon page to ksm - which brings its existing mem cgroup accounting with it. Thus mem cgroups don't appear in the patch at all. This upgrade from PageAnon to PageKsm takes place under page lock (via a somewhat hacky NULL kpage interface), and audit showed only one place which needed to cope with the race - page_referenced() is sometimes used without page lock, so page_lock_anon_vma() needs an ACCESS_ONCE() to be sure of getting anon_vma and flags together (no problem if the page goes ksm an instant after, the integrity of that anon_vma list is unaffected). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
For full functionality, page_referenced_one() and try_to_unmap_one() need to know the vma: to pass vma down to arch-dependent flushes, or to observe VM_LOCKED or VM_EXEC. But KSM keeps no record of vma: nor can it, since vmas get split and merged without its knowledge. Instead, note page's anon_vma in its rmap_item when adding to stable tree: all the vmas which might map that page are listed by its anon_vma. page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm() then traverse the anon_vma, first to find the probable vma, that which matches rmap_item's mm; but if that is not enough to locate all instances, traverse again to try the others. This catches those occasions when fork has duplicated a pte of a ksm page, but ksmd has not yet come around to assign it an rmap_item. But each rmap_item in the stable tree which refers to an anon_vma needs to take a reference to it. Andrea's anon_vma design cleverly avoided a reference count (an anon_vma was free when its list of vmas was empty), but KSM now needs to add that. Is a 32-bit count sufficient? I believe so - the anon_vma is only free when both count is 0 and list is empty. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
When KSM merges an mlocked page, it has been forgetting to munlock it: that's been left to free_page_mlock(), which reports it in /proc/vmstat as unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed instead of unevictable_pgs_munlocked (and whinges "Page flag mlocked set for process" in mmotm, whereas mainline is silently forgiving). Call munlock_vma_page() to fix that. Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Add a pointer to the ksm page into struct stable_node, holding a reference to the page while the node exists. Put a pointer to the stable_node into the ksm page's ->mapping. Then we don't need get_ksm_page() while traversing the stable tree: the page to compare against is sure to be present and correct, even if it's no longer visible through any of its existing rmap_items. And we can handle the forked ksm page case more efficiently: no need to memcmp our way through the tree to find its match. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Though we still do well to keep rmap_items in the unstable tree without a separate tree_item at the node, for several reasons it becomes awkward to keep rmap_items in the stable tree without a separate stable_node: lack of space in the nicely-sized rmap_item, the need for an anchor as rmap_items are removed, the need for a node even when temporarily no rmap_items are attached to it. So declare struct stable_node (rb_node to place it in the tree and hlist_head for the rmap_items hanging off it), and convert stable tree handling to use it: without yet taking advantage of it. Note how one stable_tree_insert() of a node now has _two_ stable_tree_append()s of the two rmap_items being merged. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Free up a pointer in struct rmap_item, by making the mm_slot's rmap_list a singly-linked list: we always traverse that list sequentially, and we don't even lose any prefetches (but should consider adding a few later). Name it rmap_list throughout. Do we need to free up that pointer? Not immediately, and in the end, we could continue to avoid it with a union; but having done the conversion, let's keep it this way, since there's no downside, and maybe we'll want more in future (struct rmap_item is a cache-friendly 32 bytes on 32-bit and 64 bytes on 64-bit, so we shall want to avoid expanding it). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Cleanup: make argument names more consistent from cmp_and_merge_page() down to replace_page(), so that it's easier to follow the rmap_item's page and the matching tree_page and the merged kpage through that code. In some places, e.g. break_cow(), pass rmap_item instead of separate mm and address. cmp_and_merge_page() initialize tree_page to NULL, to avoid a "may be used uninitialized" warning seen in one config by Anil SB. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
There is no need for replace_page() to calculate a write-protected prot vm_page_prot must already be write-protected for an anonymous page (see mm/memory.c do_anonymous_page() for similar reliance on vm_page_prot). There is no need for try_to_merge_one_page() to get_page and put_page on newpage and oldpage: in every case we already hold a reference to each of them. But some instinct makes me move try_to_merge_one_page()'s unlock_page of oldpage down after replace_page(): that doesn't increase contention on the ksm page, and makes thinking about the transition easier. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
1. remove_rmap_item_from_tree() is called as a precaution from various places: don't dirty the rmap_item cacheline unnecessarily, just mask the flags out of the address when they have been set. 2. First get_next_rmap_item() removes an unstable rmap_item from its tree, then shortly afterwards cmp_and_merge_page() removes a stable rmap_item from its tree: it's easier just to do both at once (but definitely keep the BUG_ON(age > 1) which guards against a future omission). 3. When cmp_and_merge_page() moves an rmap_item from unstable to stable tree, it does its own rb_erase() and accounting: that's better expressed by remove_rmap_item_from_tree(). Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Fix small inconsistent of ">" and ">=". Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Now, All caller of reclaim use swap_cluster_max as SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. Then, we can remove it perfectly. Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
In old days, we didn't have sc.nr_to_reclaim and it brought sc.swap_cluster_max misuse. huge sc.swap_cluster_max might makes unnecessary OOM risk and no performance benefit. Now, we can stop its insane thing. Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
shrink_all_zone() was introduced by commit d6277db4 (swsusp: rework memory shrinker) for hibernate performance improvement. and sc.swap_cluster_max was introduced by commit a06fe4d307 (Speed freeing memory for suspend). commit a06fe4d307 said Without the patch: Freed 14600 pages in 1749 jiffies = 32.61 MB/s (Anomolous!) Freed 88563 pages in 14719 jiffies = 23.50 MB/s Freed 205734 pages in 32389 jiffies = 24.81 MB/s With the patch: Freed 68252 pages in 496 jiffies = 537.52 MB/s Freed 116464 pages in 569 jiffies = 798.54 MB/s Freed 209699 pages in 705 jiffies = 1161.89 MB/s At that time, their patch was pretty worth. However, Modern Hardware trend and recent VM improvement broke its worth. From several reason, I think we should remove shrink_all_zones() at all. detail: 1) Old days, shrink_zone()'s slowness was mainly caused by stupid io-throttle at no i/o congestion. but current shrink_zone() is sane, not slow. 2) shrink_all_zone() try to shrink all pages at a time. but it doesn't works fine on numa system. example) System has 4GB memory and each node have 2GB. and hibernate need 1GB. optimal) steal 500MB from each node. shrink_all_zones) steal 1GB from node-0. Oh, Cache balancing logic was broken. ;) Unfortunately, Desktop system moved ahead NUMA at nowadays. (Side note, if hibernate require 2GB, shrink_all_zones() never success on above machine) 3) if the node has several I/O flighting pages, shrink_all_zones() makes pretty bad result. schenario) hibernate need 1GB 1) shrink_all_zones() try to reclaim 1GB from Node-0 2) but it only reclaimed 990MB 3) stupidly, shrink_all_zones() try to reclaim 1GB from Node-1 4) it reclaimed 990MB Oh, well. it reclaimed twice much than required. In the other hand, current shrink_zone() has sane baling out logic. then, it doesn't make overkill reclaim. then, we lost shrink_zones()'s risk. 4) SplitLRU VM always keep active/inactive ratio very carefully. inactive list only shrinking break its assumption. it makes unnecessary OOM risk. it obviously suboptimal. Now, shrink_all_memory() is only the wrapper function of do_try_to_free_pages(). it bring good reviewability and debuggability, and solve above problems. side note: Reclaim logic unificication makes two good side effect. - Fix recursive reclaim bug on shrink_all_memory(). it did forgot to use PF_MEMALLOC. it mean the system be able to stuck into deadlock. - Now, shrink_all_memory() got lockdep awareness. it bring good debuggability. Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, sc.scap_cluster_max has double meanings. 1) reclaim batch size as isolate_lru_pages()'s argument 2) reclaim baling out thresolds The two meanings pretty unrelated. Thus, Let's separate it. this patch doesn't change any behavior. Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set. Signed-off-by:
Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
You can discover which CPUs belong to a NUMA node by examining /sys/devices/system/node/node#/ However, it's not convenient to go in the other direction, when looking at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/ Yes, you can muck about in sysfs, but adding these symlinks makes life a lot more convenient. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
By returning early if the node is not online, we can unindent the interesting code by two levels. No functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
By returning early if the node is not online, we can unindent the interesting code by one level. No functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
Commit c04fc586 (mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs) created symlinks from nodes to memory sections, e.g. /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135 If you're examining the memory section though and are wondering what node it might belong to, you can find it by grovelling around in sysfs, but it's a little cumbersome. Add a reverse symlink for each memory section that points back to the node to which it belongs. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
When do_nonlinear_fault() realizes that the page table must have been corrupted for it to have been called, it does print_bad_pte() and returns ... VM_FAULT_OOM, which is hard to understand. It made some sense when I did it for 2.6.15, when do_page_fault() just killed the current process; but nowadays it lets the OOM killer decide who to kill - so page table corruption in one process would be liable to kill another. Change it to return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead: that doesn't guarantee that the process will be killed, but is good enough for such a rare abnormality, accompanied as it is by the "BUG: Bad page map" message. And recent HWPOISON work has copied that code into do_swap_page(), when it finds an impossible swap entry: fix that to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS too. Signed-off-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK adds 12 or 16 bytes to a 32- or 64-bit spinlock_t, and CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC adds another 12 or 24 bytes to it: lockdep enables both of those, and CONFIG_LOCK_STAT adds 8 or 16 bytes to that. When 2.6.15 placed the split page table lock inside struct page (usually sized 32 or 56 bytes), only CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK was a possibility, and we ignored the enlargement (but fitted in CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's 4 by letting the spinlock_t occupy both page->private and page->mapping). Should these debugging options be allowed to double the size of a struct page, when only one minority use of the page (as a page table) needs to fit a spinlock in there? Perhaps not. Take the easy way out: switch off SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is in force. I've sometimes tried to be cleverer, kmallocing a cacheline for the spinlock when it doesn't fit, but given up each time. Falling back to mm->page_table_lock (as we do when ptlock is not split) lets lockdep check out the strictest path anyway. And now that some arches allow 8192 cpus, use 999999 for infinity. (What has this got to do with KSM swapping? It doesn't care about the size of struct page, but may care about random junk in page->mapping - to be explained separately later.) Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
KSM swapping will know where page_referenced_one() and try_to_unmap_one() should look. It could hack page->index to get them to do what it wants, but it seems cleaner now to pass the address down to them. Make the same change to page_mkclean_one(), since it follows the same pattern; but there's no real need in its case. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Remove three degrees of obfuscation, left over from when we had CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU. MLOCK_PAGES is CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCKED_PAGE_BIT is CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCK is CONFIG_MMU. rmap.o (and memory-failure.o) are only built when CONFIG_MMU, so don't need such conditions at all. Somehow, I feel no compulsion to remove the CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCK* lines from 169 defconfigs: leave those to evolve in due course. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
There's contorted mlock/munlock handling in try_to_unmap_anon() and try_to_unmap_file(), which we'd prefer not to repeat for KSM swapping. Simplify it by moving it all down into try_to_unmap_one(). One thing is then lost, try_to_munlock()'s distinction between when no vma holds the page mlocked, and when a vma does mlock it, but we could not get mmap_sem to set the page flag. But its only caller takes no interest in that distinction (and is better testing SWAP_MLOCK anyway), so let's keep the code simple and return SWAP_AGAIN for both cases. try_to_unmap_file()'s TTU_MUNLOCK nonlinear handling was particularly amusing: once unravelled, it turns out to have been choosing between two different ways of doing the same nothing. Ah, no, one way was actually returning SWAP_FAIL when it meant to return SWAP_SUCCESS. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: comment adding to mlocking in try_to_unmap_one] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove test of MLOCK_PAGES] Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
At present we define PageAnon(page) by the low PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit set in page->mapping, with the higher bits a pointer to the anon_vma; and have defined PageKsm(page) as that with NULL anon_vma. But KSM swapping will need to store a pointer there: so in preparation for that, now define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS as the low two bits, including PAGE_MAPPING_KSM (always set along with PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, until some other use for the bit emerges). Declare page_rmapping(page) to return the pointer part of page->mapping, and page_anon_vma(page) to return the anon_vma pointer when that's what it is. Use these in a few appropriate places: notably, unuse_vma() has been testing page->mapping, but is better to be testing page_anon_vma() (cases may be added in which flag bits are set without any pointer). Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
If reclaim fails to make sufficient progress, the priority is raised. Once the priority is higher, kswapd starts waiting on congestion. However, if the zone is below the min watermark then kswapd needs to continue working without delay as there is a danger of an increased rate of GFP_ATOMIC allocation failure. This patch changes the conditions under which kswapd waits on congestion by only going to sleep if the min watermarks are being met. [mel@csn.ul.ie: add stats to track how relevant the logic is] [mel@csn.ul.ie: make kswapd only check its own zones and rename the relevant counters] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
After kswapd balances all zones in a pgdat, it goes to sleep. In the event of no IO congestion, kswapd can go to sleep very shortly after the high watermark was reached. If there are a constant stream of allocations from parallel processes, it can mean that kswapd went to sleep too quickly and the high watermark is not being maintained for sufficient length time. This patch makes kswapd go to sleep as a two-stage process. It first tries to sleep for HZ/10. If it is woken up by another process or the high watermark is no longer met, it's considered a premature sleep and kswapd continues work. Otherwise it goes fully to sleep. This adds more counters to distinguish between fast and slow breaches of watermarks. A "fast" premature sleep is one where the low watermark was hit in a very short time after kswapd going to sleep. A "slow" premature sleep indicates that the high watermark was breached after a very short interval. Signed-off-by:
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Huang Shijie authored
When the code jumps to the `out', `referenced' is still zero. So there is no need to check it. Signed-off-by:
Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Huang Shijie authored
Just simplify the code when `mlocked' is true. Signed-off-by:
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Huang Shijie authored
Fix the comment for try_to_unmap_anon() with the new arguments. Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Li authored
Commit 543ade1f ("Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups") removed generic_file_write() in filemap. Change the comment in vmscan pageout() to __generic_file_aio_write(). Signed-off-by:
Vincent Li <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
Seems that page_io.c doesn't really need to know that page_private(page) is the swp_entry 'val'. Rework map_swap_page() to do what its name says and map a page to a page offset in the swap space. The only other caller of map_swap_page() is internal to mm/swapfile.c and it does want to map a swap entry to the 'sector'. So rename map_swap_page() to map_swap_entry(), make it 'static' and and implement map_swap_page() as a wrapper around that. Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Reorder (and comment) the fields of swap_info_struct, to make better use of its cachelines: it's good for swap_duplicate() in particular if unsigned int max and swap_map are near the start. Signed-off-by:
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