memory unplug: page isolation

Implement generic chunk-of-pages isolation method by using page grouping ops.

This patch add MIGRATE_ISOLATE to MIGRATE_TYPES. By this
 - MIGRATE_TYPES increases.
 - bitmap for migratetype is enlarged.

pages of MIGRATE_ISOLATE migratetype will not be allocated even if it is free.
By this, you can isolated *freed* pages from users. How-to-free pages is not
a purpose of this patch. You may use reclaim and migrate codes to free pages.

If start_isolate_page_range(start,end) is called,
 - migratetype of the range turns to be MIGRATE_ISOLATE  if
   its type is MIGRATE_MOVABLE. (*) this check can be updated if other
   memory reclaiming works make progress.
 - MIGRATE_ISOLATE is not on migratetype fallback list.
 - All free pages and will-be-freed pages are isolated.
To check all pages in the range are isolated or not,  use test_pages_isolated(),
To cancel isolation, use undo_isolate_page_range().

Changes V6 -> V7
 - removed unnecessary #ifdef

There are HOLES_IN_ZONE handling codes...I'm glad if we can remove them..

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 20ea42c45e4a..f4bfe824834f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
 #define MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE   1
 #define MIGRATE_MOVABLE       2
 #define MIGRATE_RESERVE       3
-#define MIGRATE_TYPES         4
+#define MIGRATE_ISOLATE       4 /* can't allocate from here */
+#define MIGRATE_TYPES         5
 
 #define for_each_migratetype_order(order, type) \
         for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) \