NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.

NOMMU mmap allocates a piece of memory for an mmap that's rounded up in size to
the nearest power-of-2 number of pages.  Currently it then discards the excess
pages back to the page allocator, making that memory available for use by other
things.  This can, however, cause greater amount of fragmentation.

To counter this, a sysctl is added in order to fine-tune the trimming
behaviour.  The default behaviour remains to trim pages aggressively, while
this can either be disabled completely or set to a higher page-granular
watermark in order to have finer-grained control.

vm region vm_top bits taken from an earlier patch by David Howells.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 92f6e5bc3c24..89d74436318c 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
 extern int compat_log;
 extern int latencytop_enabled;
 extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+extern int sysctl_nr_trim_pages;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
 extern int rcutorture_runnable;
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */
@@ -1102,6 +1105,17 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                 .mode           = 0644,
                 .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec
         },
+#else
+        {
+                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+                .procname       = "nr_trim_pages",
+                .data           = &sysctl_nr_trim_pages,
+                .maxlen         = sizeof(sysctl_nr_trim_pages),
+                .mode           = 0644,
+                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
+                .strategy       = &sysctl_intvec,
+                .extra1         = &zero,
+        },
 #endif
         {
                 .ctl_name       = VM_LAPTOP_MODE,