[PATCH] add migratepage address space op to shmem

Basic problem: pages of a shared memory segment can only be migrated once.

In 2.6.16 through 2.6.17-rc1, shared memory mappings do not have a
migratepage address space op.  Therefore, migrate_pages() falls back to
default processing.  In this path, it will try to pageout() dirty pages.
Once a shared memory page has been migrated it becomes dirty, so
migrate_pages() will try to page it out.  However, because the page count
is 3 [cache + current + pte], pageout() will return PAGE_KEEP because
is_page_cache_freeable() returns false.  This will abort all subsequent
migrations.

This patch adds a migratepage address space op to shared memory segments to
avoid taking the default path.  We use the "migrate_page()" function
because it knows how to migrate dirty pages.  This allows shared memory
segment pages to migrate, subject to other conditions such as # pte's
referencing the page [page_mapcount(page)], when requested.

I think this is safe.  If we're migrating a shared memory page, then we
found the page via a page table, so it must be in memory.

Can be verified with memtoy and the shmem-mbind-test script, both
available at:  http://free.linux.hp.com/~lts/Tools/

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 37eaf42ed2c6..4c5e68e4e9ae 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/migrate.h>
+
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -2173,6 +2175,7 @@ static struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
         .prepare_write  = shmem_prepare_write,
         .commit_write   = simple_commit_write,
 #endif
+        .migratepage    = migrate_page,
 };
 
 static struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {