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* mm: fix section mismatch warning in page_alloc.cSam Ravnborg2008-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y we saw following warning: WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x6864): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'process_zones' and 'pageset_cpuup_callback') The culprit was zone_batchsize() which were annotated __devinit but used from process_zones() which is annotated __cpuinit. zone_batchsize() are used from another function annotated __meminit so the only valid option is to drop the annotation of zone_batchsize() so we know it is always valid to use it. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix crash with FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET != 0Thomas Bogendoerfer2008-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is not 0, the kernel crashes in memmap_init_zone(). This bug got introduced by commit c713216deebd95d2b0ab38fef8bb2361c0180c2d Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@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>
* mm: fix page allocation for larger I/O segmentsMel Gorman2007-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some cases the IO subsystem is able to merge requests if the pages are adjacent in physical memory. This was achieved in the allocator by having expand() return pages in physically contiguous order in situations were a large buddy was split. However, list-based anti-fragmentation changed the order pages were returned in to avoid searching in buffered_rmqueue() for a page of the appropriate migrate type. This patch restores behaviour of rmqueue_bulk() preserving the physical order of pages returned by the allocator without incurring increased search costs for anti-fragmentation. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix boot problem with iSeries lacking hugepage supportMel Gorman2007-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ordinarily the size of a pageblock is determined at compile-time based on the hugepage size. On PPC64, the hugepage size is determined at runtime based on what is supported by the machine. With legacy machines such as iSeries that do not support hugepages, HPAGE_SHIFT is 0. This results in pageblock_order being set to -PAGE_SHIFT and a crash results shortly afterwards. This patch adds a function to select a sensible value for pageblock order by default when HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE is set. It checks that HPAGE_SHIFT is a sensible value before using the hugepage size; if it is not MAX_ORDER-1 is used. This is a fix for 2.6.24. Credit goes to Stephen Rothwell for identifying the bug and testing candidate patches. Additional credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for spotting a problem with respects to IA-64 before releasing. Additional credit to David Gibson for testing with the libhugetlbfs test suite. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* prep_zero_page: remove bogus BUG_ONHugh Dickins2007-11-28
| | | | | | | | | 2.6.11 gave __GFP_ZERO's prep_zero_page a bogus "highmem may have to wait" assertion. Presumably added under the misconception that clear_highpage uses nonatomic kmap; but then and now it uses kmap_atomic, so no problem. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNs"Linus Torvalds2007-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 5adc5be7cd1bcef6bb64f5255d2a33f20a3cf5be. Alexey Dobriyan reports that it causes huge slowdowns under some loads, in his case a "mkfs.ext2" on a 30G partition. With the placement bias, the mkfs took over four minutes, with it reverted it's back to about ten seconds for Alexey. Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* spelling fixes: mm/Simon Arlott2007-10-19
| | | | | | | Spelling fixes in mm/. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* oom: serialize out of memory callsDavid Rientjes2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A final allocation attempt with a very high watermark needs to be attempted before invoking out_of_memory(). OOM killer serialization needs to occur before this final attempt, otherwise tasks attempting to OOM-lock all zones in its zonelist may spin and acquire the lock unnecessarily after the OOM condition has already been alleviated. If the final allocation does succeed, the zonelist is simply OOM-unlocked and __alloc_pages() returns the page. Otherwise, the OOM killer is invoked. If the task cannot acquire OOM-locks on all zones in its zonelist, it is put to sleep and the allocation is retried when it gets rescheduled. One of its zones is already marked as being in the OOM killer so it'll hopefully be getting some free memory soon, at least enough to satisfy a high watermark allocation attempt. This prevents needlessly killing a task when the OOM condition would have already been alleviated if it had simply been given enough time. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* oom: change all_unreclaimable zone member to flagsDavid Rientjes2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert the int all_unreclaimable member of struct zone to unsigned long flags. This can now be used to specify several different zone flags such as all_unreclaimable and reclaim_in_progress, which can now be removed and converted to a per-zone flag. Flags are set and cleared as follows: zone_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag) zone_clear_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag) Defines the first zone flags, ZONE_ALL_UNRECLAIMABLE and ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED, which have the same semantics as the old zone->all_unreclaimable and zone->reclaim_in_progress, respectively. Also converts all current users that set or clear either flag to use the new interface. Helper functions are defined to test the flags: int zone_is_all_unreclaimable(const struct zone *zone) int zone_is_reclaim_locked(const struct zone *zone) All flag operators are of the atomic variety because there are currently readers that are implemented that do not take zone->lock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add needed include] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* oom: move prototypes to appropriate header fileDavid Rientjes2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the OOM killer's extern function prototypes to include/linux/oom.h and include it where necessary. [clg@fr.ibm.com: build fix] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memory unplug: page offlineKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Logic. - set all pages in [start,end) as isolated migration-type. by this, all free pages in the range will be not-for-use. - Migrate all LRU pages in the range. - Test all pages in the range's refcnt is zero or not. Todo: - allocate migration destination page from better area. - confirm page_count(page)== 0 && PageReserved(page) page is safe to be freed.. (I don't like this kind of page but.. - Find out pages which cannot be migrated. - more running tests. - Use reclaim for unplugging other memory type area. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: 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>
* memory unplug: page isolationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Breakout page_order() to internal.h to avoid special knowledge of the buddy ↵Mel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | allocator The statistics patch later needs to know what order a free page is on the free lists. Rather than having special knowledge of page_private() when PageBuddy() is set, this patch places out page_order() in internal.h and adds a VM_BUG_ON to catch using it on non-PageBuddy pages. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/page_alloc.c: make code staticAdrian Bunk2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | This patch makes needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to ↵Mel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /proc/pagetypeinfo This patch provides fragmentation avoidance statistics via /proc/pagetypeinfo. The information is collected only on request so there is no runtime overhead. The statistics are in three parts: The first part prints information on the size of blocks that pages are being grouped on and looks like Page block order: 10 Pages per block: 1024 The second part is a more detailed version of /proc/buddyinfo and looks like Free pages count per migrate type at order 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Node 0, zone DMA, type Unmovable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reclaimable 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Movable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reserve 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Unmovable 111 8 4 4 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reclaimable 293 89 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Movable 1 6 13 9 7 6 3 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 The third part looks like Number of blocks type Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserve Node 0, zone DMA 0 1 2 1 Node 0, zone Normal 3 17 94 4 To walk the zones within a node with interrupts disabled, walk_zones_in_node() is introduced and shared between /proc/buddyinfo, /proc/zoneinfo and /proc/pagetypeinfo to reduce code duplication. It seems specific to what vmstat.c requires but could be broken out as a general utility function in mmzone.c if there were other other potential users. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Do not depend on MAX_ORDER when grouping pages by mobilityMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently mobility grouping works at the MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES level. This makes sense for the majority of users where this is also the huge page size. However, on platforms like ia64 where the huge page size is runtime configurable it is desirable to group at a lower order. On x86_64 and occasionally on x86, the hugepage size may not always be MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. This patch groups pages together based on the value of HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER. It uses a compile-time constant if possible and a variable where the huge page size is runtime configurable. It is assumed that grouping should be done at the lowest sensible order and that the user would not want to override this. If this is not true, page_block order could be forced to a variable initialised via a boot-time kernel parameter. One potential issue with this patch is that IA64 now parses hugepagesz with early_param() instead of __setup(). __setup() is called after the memory allocator has been initialised and the pageblock bitmaps already setup. In tests on one IA64 there did not seem to be any problem with using early_param() and in fact may be more correct as it guarantees the parameter is handled before the parsing of hugepages=. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix calculation in move_freepages_block for counting pagesMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | move_freepages_block() returns the number of blocks moved. This value is used to determine if a block of pages should be stolen for the exclusive use of a migrate type or not. However, the value returned is being used correctly. This patch fixes the calculation to return the number of base pages that have been moved. This should be considered a fix to the patch move-free-pages-between-lists-on-steal.patch Credit to Andy Whitcroft for spotting the problem. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* don't group high order atomic allocationsMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Grouping high-order atomic allocations together was intended to allow bursty users of atomic allocations to work such as e1000 in situations where their preallocated buffers were depleted. This did not work in at least one case with a wireless network adapter needing order-1 allocations frequently. To resolve that, the free pages used for min_free_kbytes were moved to separate contiguous blocks with the patch bias-the-location-of-pages-freed-for-min_free_kbytes-in-the-same-max_order_nr_pages-blocks. It is felt that keeping the free pages in the same contiguous blocks should be sufficient for bursty short-lived high-order atomic allocations to succeed, maybe even with the e1000. Even if there is a failure, increasing the value of min_free_kbytes will free pages as contiguous bloks in contrast to the standard buddy allocator which makes no attempt to keep the minimum number of free pages contiguous. This patch backs out grouping high order atomic allocations together to determine if it is really needed or not. If a new report comes in about high-order atomic allocations failing, the feature can be reintroduced to determine if it fixes the problem or not. As a side-effect, this patch reduces by 1 the number of bits required to track the mobility type of pages within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* remove PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITYMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | Grouping pages by mobility can be disabled at compile-time. This was considered undesirable by a number of people. However, in the current stack of patches, it is not a simple case of just dropping the configurable patch as it would cause merge conflicts. This patch backs out the configuration option. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Bias the location of pages freed for min_free_kbytes in the same ↵Mel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES blocks The standard buddy allocator always favours the smallest block of pages. The effect of this is that the pages free to satisfy min_free_kbytes tends to be preserved since boot time at the same location of memory ffor a very long time and as a contiguous block. When an administrator sets the reserve at 16384 at boot time, it tends to be the same MAX_ORDER blocks that remain free. This allows the occasional high atomic allocation to succeed up until the point the blocks are split. In practice, it is difficult to split these blocks but when they do split, the benefit of having min_free_kbytes for contiguous blocks disappears. Additionally, increasing min_free_kbytes once the system has been running for some time has no guarantee of creating contiguous blocks. On the other hand, CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY favours splitting large blocks when there are no free pages of the appropriate type available. A side-effect of this is that all blocks in memory tends to be used up and the contiguous free blocks from boot time are not preserved like in the vanilla allocator. This can cause a problem if a new caller is unwilling to reclaim or does not reclaim for long enough. A failure scenario was found for a wireless network device allocating order-1 atomic allocations but the allocations were not intense or frequent enough for a whole block of pages to be preserved for MIGRATE_HIGHALLOC. This was reproduced on a desktop by booting with mem=256mb, forcing the driver to allocate at order-1, running a bittorrent client (downloading a debian ISO) and building a kernel with -j2. This patch addresses the problem on the desktop machine booted with mem=256mb. It works by setting aside a reserve of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES blocks, the number of which depends on the value of min_free_kbytes. These blocks are only fallen back to when there is no other free pages. Then the smallest possible page is used just like the normal buddy allocator instead of the largest possible page to preserve contiguous pages The pages in free lists in the reserve blocks are never taken for another migrate type. The results is that even if min_free_kbytes is set to a low value, contiguous blocks will be preserved in the MIGRATE_RESERVE blocks. This works better than the vanilla allocator because if min_free_kbytes is increased, a new reserve block will be chosen based on the location of reclaimable pages and the block will free up as contiguous pages. In the vanilla allocator, no effort is made to target a block of pages to free as contiguous pages and min_free_kbytes pages are scattered randomly. This effect has been observed on the test machine. min_free_kbytes was set initially low but it was kept as a contiguous free block within MIGRATE_RESERVE. min_free_kbytes was then set to a higher value and over a period of time, the free blocks were within the reserve and coalescing. How long it takes to free up depends on how quickly LRU is rotating. Amusingly, this means that more activity will free the blocks faster. This mechanism potentially replaces MIGRATE_HIGHALLOC as it may be more effective than grouping contiguous free pages together. It all depends on whether the number of active atomic high allocations exceeds min_free_kbytes or not. If the number of active allocations exceeds min_free_kbytes, it's worth it but maybe in that situation, min_free_kbytes should be set higher. Once there are no more reports of allocation failures, a patch will be submitted that backs out MIGRATE_HIGHALLOC and see if the reports stay missing. Credit to Mariusz Kozlowski for discovering the problem, describing the failure scenario and testing patches and scenarios. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Be more agressive about stealing when MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE allocations fallbackMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE allocations tend to be very bursty in nature like when updatedb starts. It is likely this will occur in situations where MAX_ORDER blocks of pages are not free. This means that updatedb can scatter MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE pages throughout the address space. This patch is more agressive about stealing blocks of pages for MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNsMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | This patch chooses blocks with lower PFNs when placing kernel allocations. This is particularly important during fallback in low memory situations to stop unmovable pages being placed throughout the entire address space. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Do not group pages by mobility type on low memory systemsMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Grouping pages by mobility can only successfully operate when there are more MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES areas than mobility types. When there are insufficient areas, fallbacks cannot be avoided. This has noticeable performance impacts on machines with small amounts of memory in comparison to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. For example, on IA64 with a configuration including huge pages spans 1GiB with MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES so would need at least 4GiB of RAM before grouping pages by mobility would be useful. In comparison, an x86 would need 16MB. This patch checks the size of vm_total_pages in build_all_zonelists(). If there are not enough areas, mobility is effectivly disabled by considering all allocations as the same type (UNMOVABLE). This is achived via a __read_mostly flag. With this patch, performance is comparable to disabling grouping pages by mobility at compile-time on a test machine with insufficient memory. With this patch, it is reasonable to get rid of grouping pages by mobility a compile-time option. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Group high-order atomic allocationsMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In rare cases, the kernel needs to allocate a high-order block of pages without sleeping. For example, this is the case with e1000 cards configured to use jumbo frames. Migrating or reclaiming pages in this situation is not an option. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC type are exactly what they sound like. Care is taken that pages of other migrate types do not use the same blocks as high-order atomic allocations. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocationsMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Move free pages between lists on stealMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a fallback occurs, there will be free pages for one allocation type stored on the list for another. When a large steal occurs, this patch will move all the free pages within one list to the other. [y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com: fix BUG_ON check at move_freepages()] [apw@shadowen.org: Move to using pfn_valid_within()] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Drain per-cpu lists when high-order allocations failMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | Per-cpu pages can accidentally cause fragmentation because they are free, but pinned pages in an otherwise contiguous block. When this patch is applied, the per-cpu caches are drained after the direct-reclaim is entered if the requested order is greater than 0. It simply reuses the code used by suspend and hotplug. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add a configure option to group pages by mobilityMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The grouping mechanism has some memory overhead and a more complex allocation path. This patch allows the strategy to be disabled for small memory systems or if it is known the workload is suffering because of the strategy. It also acts to show where the page groupings strategy interacts with the standard buddy allocator. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Choose pages from the per-cpu list based on migration typeMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The freelists for each migrate type can slowly become polluted due to the per-cpu list. Consider what happens when the following happens 1. A 2^(MAX_ORDER-1) list is reserved for __GFP_MOVABLE pages 2. An order-0 page is allocated from the newly reserved block 3. The page is freed and placed on the per-cpu list 4. alloc_page() is called with GFP_KERNEL as the gfp_mask 5. The per-cpu list is used to satisfy the allocation This results in a kernel page is in the middle of a migratable region. This patch prevents this leak occuring by storing the MIGRATE_ type of the page in page->private. On allocate, a page will only be returned of the desired type, else more pages will be allocated. This may temporarily allow a per-cpu list to go over the pcp->high limit but it'll be corrected on the next free. Care is taken to preserve the hotness of pages recently freed. The additional code is not measurably slower for the workloads we've tested. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Split the free lists for movable and unmovable allocationsMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the core of the fragmentation reduction strategy. It works by grouping pages together based on their ability to migrate or be reclaimed. Basically, it works by breaking the list in zone->free_area list into MIGRATE_TYPES number of lists. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add a bitmap that is used to track flags affecting a block of pagesMel Gorman2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is the latest revision of the anti-fragmentation patches. Of particular note in this version is special treatment of high-order atomic allocations. Care is taken to group them together and avoid grouping pages of other types near them. Artifical tests imply that it works. I'm trying to get the hardware together that would allow setting up of a "real" test. If anyone already has a setup and test that can trigger the atomic-allocation problem, I'd appreciate a test of these patches and a report. The second major change is that these patches will apply cleanly with patches that implement anti-fragmentation through zones. kernbench shows effectively no performance difference varying between -0.2% and +2% on a variety of test machines. Success rates for huge page allocation are dramatically increased. For example, on a ppc64 machine, the vanilla kernel was only able to allocate 1% of memory as a hugepage and this was due to a single hugepage reserved as min_free_kbytes. With these patches applied, 17% was allocatable as superpages. With reclaim-related fixes from Andy Whitcroft, it was 40% and further reclaim-related improvements should increase this further. Changelog Since V28 o Group high-order atomic allocations together o It is no longer required to set min_free_kbytes to 10% of memory. A value of 16384 in most cases will be sufficient o Now applied with zone-based anti-fragmentation o Fix incorrect VM_BUG_ON within buffered_rmqueue() o Reorder the stack so later patches do not back out work from earlier patches o Fix bug were journal pages were being treated as movable o Bias placement of non-movable pages to lower PFNs o More agressive clustering of reclaimable pages in reactions to workloads like updatedb that flood the size of inode caches Changelog Since V27 o Renamed anti-fragmentation to Page Clustering. Anti-fragmentation was giving the mistaken impression that it was the 100% solution for high order allocations. Instead, it greatly increases the chances high-order allocations will succeed and lays the foundation for defragmentation and memory hot-remove to work properly o Redefine page groupings based on ability to migrate or reclaim instead of basing on reclaimability alone o Get rid of spurious inits o Per-cpu lists are no longer split up per-type. Instead the per-cpu list is searched for a page of the appropriate type o Added more explanation commentary o Fix up bug in pageblock code where bitmap was used before being initalised Changelog Since V26 o Fix double init of lists in setup_pageset Changelog Since V25 o Fix loop order of for_each_rclmtype_order so that order of loop matches args o gfpflags_to_rclmtype uses gfp_t instead of unsigned long o Rename get_pageblock_type() to get_page_rclmtype() o Fix alignment problem in move_freepages() o Add mechanism for assigning flags to blocks of pages instead of page->flags o On fallback, do not examine the preferred list of free pages a second time The purpose of these patches is to reduce external fragmentation by grouping pages of related types together. When pages are migrated (or reclaimed under memory pressure), large contiguous pages will be freed. This patch works by categorising allocations by their ability to migrate; Movable - The pages may be moved with the page migration mechanism. These are generally userspace pages. Reclaimable - These are allocations for some kernel caches that are reclaimable or allocations that are known to be very short-lived. Unmovable - These are pages that are allocated by the kernel that are not trivially reclaimed. For example, the memory allocated for a loaded module would be in this category. By default, allocations are considered to be of this type HighAtomic - These are high-order allocations belonging to callers that cannot sleep or perform any IO. In practice, this is restricted to jumbo frame allocation for network receive. It is assumed that the allocations are short-lived Instead of having one MAX_ORDER-sized array of free lists in struct free_area, there is one for each type of reclaimability. Once a 2^MAX_ORDER block of pages is split for a type of allocation, it is added to the free-lists for that type, in effect reserving it. Hence, over time, pages of the different types can be clustered together. When the preferred freelists are expired, the largest possible block is taken from an alternative list. Buddies that are split from that large block are placed on the preferred allocation-type freelists to mitigate fragmentation. This implementation gives best-effort for low fragmentation in all zones. Ideally, min_free_kbytes needs to be set to a value equal to 4 * (1 << (MAX_ORDER-1)) pages in most cases. This would be 16384 on x86 and x86_64 for example. Our tests show that about 60-70% of physical memory can be allocated on a desktop after a few days uptime. In benchmarks and stress tests, we are finding that 80% of memory is available as contiguous blocks at the end of the test. To compare, a standard kernel was getting < 1% of memory as large pages on a desktop and about 8-12% of memory as large pages at the end of stress tests. Following this email are 12 patches that implement thie page grouping feature. The first patch introduces a mechanism for storing flags related to a whole block of pages. Then allocations are split between movable and all other allocations. Following that are patches to deal with per-cpu pages and make the mechanism configurable. The next patch moves free pages between lists when partially allocated blocks are used for pages of another migrate type. The second last patch groups reclaimable kernel allocations such as inode caches together. The final patch related to groupings keeps high-order atomic allocations. The last two patches are more concerned with control of fragmentation. The second last patch biases placement of non-movable allocations towards the start of memory. This is with a view of supporting memory hot-remove of DIMMs with higher PFNs in the future. The biasing could be enforced a lot heavier but it would cost. The last patch agressively clusters reclaimable pages like inode caches together. The fragmentation reduction strategy needs to track if pages within a block can be moved or reclaimed so that pages are freed to the appropriate list. This patch adds a bitmap for flags affecting a whole a MAX_ORDER block of pages. In non-SPARSEMEM configurations, the bitmap is stored in the struct zone and allocated during initialisation. SPARSEMEM statically allocates the bitmap in a struct mem_section so that bitmaps do not have to be resized during memory hotadd. This wastes a small amount of memory per unused section (usually sizeof(unsigned long)) but the complexity of dynamically allocating the memory is quite high. Additional credit to Andy Whitcroft who reviewed up an earlier implementation of the mechanism an suggested how to make it a *lot* cleaner. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memoryless nodes: fixup uses of node_online_map in generic codeLee Schermerhorn2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a cut at fixing up uses of the online node map in generic code. mm/shmem.c:shmem_parse_mpol() Ensure nodelist is subset of nodes with memory. Use node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] as default for missing nodelist for interleave policy. mm/shmem.c:shmem_fill_super() initialize policy_nodes to node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] mm/page-writeback.c:highmem_dirtyable_memory() sum over nodes with memory mm/page_alloc.c:zlc_setup() allowednodes - use nodes with memory. mm/page_alloc.c:default_zonelist_order() average over nodes with memory. mm/page_alloc.c:find_next_best_node() skip nodes w/o memory. N_HIGH_MEMORY state mask may not be initialized at this time, unless we want to depend on early_calculate_totalpages() [see below]. Will ZONE_MOVABLE ever be configurable? mm/page_alloc.c:find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() spread kernelcore over nodes with memory. This required calling early_calculate_totalpages() unconditionally, and populating N_HIGH_MEMORY node state therein from nodes in the early_node_map[]. If we can depend on this, we can eliminate the population of N_HIGH_MEMORY mask from __build_all_zonelists() and use the N_HIGH_MEMORY mask in find_next_best_node(). mm/mempolicy.c:mpol_check_policy() Ensure nodes specified for policy are subset of nodes with memory. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memoryless nodes: Fix GFP_THISNODE behaviorChristoph Lameter2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GFP_THISNODE checks that the zone selected is within the pgdat (node) of the first zone of a nodelist. That only works if the node has memory. A memoryless node will have its first node on another pgdat (node). GFP_THISNODE currently will return simply memory on the first pgdat. Thus it is returning memory on other nodes. GFP_THISNODE should fail if there is no local memory on a node. Add a new set of zonelists for each node that only contain the nodes that belong to the zones itself so that no fallback is possible. Then modify gfp_type to pickup the right zone based on the presence of __GFP_THISNODE. Drop the existing GFP_THISNODE checks from the page_allocators hot path. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memoryless nodes: drop one memoryless node boot warningChristoph Lameter2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_pfn_range_for_nid() is called multiple times for each node at boot time. Each time, it will warn about nodes with no memory, resulting in boot messages like: Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory On node 0 totalpages: 0 Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory DMA zone: 0 pages used for memmap Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap Node 0 active with no memory Node 0 active with no memory Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap and so on for each memoryless node. We already have the "On node N totalpages: ..." and other related messages, so drop the "Node N active with no memory" warnings. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memoryless nodes: Add N_CPU node stateChristoph Lameter2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need the check for a node with cpu in zone reclaim. Zone reclaim will not allow remote zone reclaim if a node has a cpu. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Move setup of N_CPU node state mask] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memoryless nodes: introduce mask of nodes with memoryChristoph Lameter2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is necessary to know if nodes have memory since we have recently begun to add support for memoryless nodes. For that purpose we introduce a two new node states: N_HIGH_MEMORY and N_NORMAL_MEMORY. A node has its bit in N_HIGH_MEMORY set if it has any memory regardless of the type of mmemory. If a node has memory then it has at least one zone defined in its pgdat structure that is located in the pgdat itself. A node has its bit in N_NORMAL_MEMORY set if it has a lower zone than ZONE_HIGHMEM. This means it is possible to allocate memory that is not subject to kmap. N_HIGH_MEMORY and N_NORMAL_MEMORY can then be used in various places to insure that we do the right thing when we encounter a memoryless node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: update N_HIGH_MEMORY node state for memory hotadd] [y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com: Fix memory hotplug + sparsemem build] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memoryless nodes: Generic management of nodemasks for various purposesChristoph Lameter2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Why do we need to support memoryless nodes? KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > For fujitsu, problem is called "empty" node. > > When ACPI's SRAT table includes "possible nodes", ia64 bootstrap(acpi_numa_init) > creates nodes, which includes no memory, no cpu. > > I tried to remove empty-node in past, but that was denied. > It was because we can hot-add cpu to the empty node. > (node-hotplug triggered by cpu is not implemented now. and it will be ugly.) > > > For HP, (Lee can comment on this later), they have memory-less-node. > As far as I hear, HP's machine can have following configration. > > (example) > Node0: CPU0 memory AAA MB > Node1: CPU1 memory AAA MB > Node2: CPU2 memory AAA MB > Node3: CPU3 memory AAA MB > Node4: Memory XXX GB > > AAA is very small value (below 16MB) and will be omitted by ia64 bootstrap. > After boot, only Node 4 has valid memory (but have no cpu.) > > Maybe this is memory-interleave by firmware config. Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > Future SGI platforms (actually also current one can have but nothing like > that is deployed to my knowledge) have nodes with only cpus. Current SGI > platforms have nodes with just I/O that we so far cannot manage in the > core. So the arch code maps them to the nearest memory node. Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote: > For the HP platforms, we can configure each cell with from 0% to 100% > "cell local memory". When we configure with <100% CLM, the "missing > percentages" are interleaved by hardware on a cache-line granularity to > improve bandwidth at the expense of latency for numa-challenged > applications [and OSes, but not our problem ;-)]. When we boot Linux on > such a config, all of the real nodes have no memory--it all resides in a > single interleaved pseudo-node. > > When we boot Linux on a 100% CLM configuration [== NUMA], we still have > the interleaved pseudo-node. It contains a few hundred MB stolen from > the real nodes to contain the DMA zone. [Interleaved memory resides at > phys addr 0]. The memoryless-nodes patches, along with the zoneorder > patches, support this config as well. > > Also, when we boot a NUMA config with the "mem=" command line, > specifying less memory than actually exists, Linux takes the excluded > memory "off the top" rather than distributing it across the nodes. This > can result in memoryless nodes, as well. > This patch: Preparation for memoryless node patches. Provide a generic way to keep nodemasks describing various characteristics of NUMA nodes. Remove the node_online_map and the node_possible map and realize the same functionality using two nodes stats: N_POSSIBLE and N_ONLINE. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Initialize N_*_MEMORY and N_CPU masks for non-NUMA config] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: no need to cast vmalloc() return value in zone_wait_table_init()Jesper Juhl2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | vmalloc() returns a void pointer, so there's no need to cast its return value in mm/page_alloc.c::zone_wait_table_init(). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* process_zones(): fix recovery codeAndrew Morton2007-08-31
| | | | | | | | Don't try to free memory which we didn't allocate. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman2007-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone. When ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that policies are only applied to allocations like anonymous pages and page cache allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE when the zone is used. This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE. As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real" zone, it's always functionally equivalent. The patch has been tested on a variety of machines both NUMA and non-NUMA covering x86, x86_64 and ppc64. No abnormal results were seen in kernbench, tbench, dbench or hackbench. It passes regression tests from the numactl package with and without kernelcore= once numactl tests are patched to wait for vmstat counters to update. akpm: this is the nasty hack to fix NUMA mempolicies in the presence of ZONE_MOVABLE and kernelcore= in 2.6.23. Christoph says "For .24 either merge the mobility or get the other solution that Mel is working on. That solution would only use a single zonelist per node and filter on the fly. That may help performance and also help to make memory policies work better." Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Do not trigger OOM-killer for high-order allocation failuresMel Gorman2007-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | out_of_memory() may be called when an allocation is failing and the direct reclaim is not making any progress. This does not take into account the requested order of the allocation. If the request if for an order larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, it is reasonable to fail the allocation because the kernel makes no guarantees about those allocations succeeding. This false OOM situation can occur if a user is trying to grow the hugepage pool in a script like; #!/bin/bash REQUIRED=$1 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable echo $REQUIRED > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages ACTUAL=`cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages` while [ $REQUIRED -ne $ACTUAL ]; do echo Huge page pool at $ACTUAL growing to $REQUIRED echo $REQUIRED > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages ACTUAL=`cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages` sleep 1 done This is a reasonable scenario when ZONE_MOVABLE is in use but triggers OOM easily on 2.6.23-rc1. This patch will fail an allocation for an order above PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER instead of killing processes and retrying. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standbyRafael J. Wysocki2007-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND and HIBERNATION independently of each other. Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or HIBERNATION has been chosen and the kernel is intended for SMP systems. Also, introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP which is automatically selected if CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION is set and use it to select the code needed for both suspend and hibernation. The top-level power management headers and the ACPI code related to suspend and hibernation are modified to use the new definitions (the changes in drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c are, mostly, moving code to reduce the number of ifdefs). There are many other files in which CONFIG_PM can be replaced with CONFIG_PM_SLEEP or even with CONFIG_SUSPEND, but they can be updated in the future. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Allow nodes to exist that only contain ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman2007-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the introduction of kernelcore=, a configurable zone is created on request. In some cases, this value will be small enough that some nodes contain only ZONE_MOVABLE. On some NUMA configurations when this occurs, arch-independent zone-sizing will get the size of the memory holes within the node incorrect. The value of present_pages goes negative and the boot fails. This patch fixes the bug in the calculation of the size of the hole. The test case is to boot test a NUMA machine with a low value of kernelcore= before and after the patch is applied. While this bug exists in early kernel it cannot be triggered in practice. This patch has been boot-tested on a variety machines with and without kernelcore= set. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fix memory hotplug oops from ZONE_MOVABLE changes.Paul Mundt2007-07-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | zone_movable_pfn is presently marked as __initdata and referenced from adjust_zone_range_for_zone_movable(), which in turn is referenced by zone_spanned_pages_in_node(). Both of these are __meminit annotated. When memory hotplug is enabled, this will oops on a hot-add, due to zone_movable_pfn having been freed. __meminitdata annotation gives the desired behaviour. This will only impact platforms that enable both memory hotplug and ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-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>
* mm: share PG_readahead and PG_reclaimFengguang Wu2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Share the same page flag bit for PG_readahead and PG_reclaim. One is used only on file reads, another is only for emergency writes. One is used mostly for fresh/young pages, another is for old pages. Combinations of possible interactions are: a) clear PG_reclaim => implicit clear of PG_readahead it will delay an asynchronous readahead into a synchronous one it actually does _good_ for readahead: the pages will be reclaimed soon, it's readahead thrashing! in this case, synchronous readahead makes more sense. b) clear PG_readahead => implicit clear of PG_reclaim one(and only one) page will not be reclaimed in time it can be avoided by checking PageWriteback(page) in readahead first c) set PG_reclaim => implicit set of PG_readahead will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup process it's a trivial problem, and can mostly be avoided by checking PageWriteback(page) first in readahead d) set PG_readahead => implicit set of PG_reclaim PG_readahead will never be set on already cached pages. PG_reclaim will always be cleared on dirtying a page. so not a problem. In summary, a) we get better behavior b,d) possible interactions can be avoided c) racy condition exists that might affect readahead, but the chance is _really_ low, and the hurt on readahead is trivial. Compound pages also use PG_reclaim, but for now they do not interact with reclaim/readahead code. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: introduce PG_readaheadFengguang Wu2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead. It acts as a look-ahead mark, which tells the page reader: Hey, it's time to invoke the read-ahead logic. For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until it runs out of cached pages! Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* knfsd: nfsd4: vary maximum delegation limit based on RAM sizeMeelap Shah2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our original NFSv4 delegation policy was to give out a read delegation on any open when it was possible to. Since the lifetime of a delegation isn't limited to that of an open, a client may quite reasonably hang on to a delegation as long as it has the inode cached. This becomes an obvious problem the first time a client's inode cache approaches the size of the server's total memory. Our first quick solution was to add a hard-coded limit. This patch makes a mild incremental improvement by varying that limit according to the server's total memory size, allowing at most 4 delegations per megabyte of RAM. My quick back-of-the-envelope calculation finds that in the worst case (where every delegation is for a different inode), a delegation could take about 1.5K, which would make the worst case usage about 6% of memory. The new limit works out to be about the same as the old on a 1-gig server. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't needlessly bloat vmlinux] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it right for highmem machines] Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Lumpy Reclaim V4Andy Whitcroft2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we are out of memory of a suitable size we enter reclaim. The current reclaim algorithm targets pages in LRU order, which is great for fairness at order-0 but highly unsuitable if you desire pages at higher orders. To get pages of higher order we must shoot down a very high proportion of memory; >95% in a lot of cases. This patch set adds a lumpy reclaim algorithm to the allocator. It targets groups of pages at the specified order anchored at the end of the active and inactive lists. This encourages groups of pages at the requested orders to move from active to inactive, and active to free lists. This behaviour is only triggered out of direct reclaim when higher order pages have been requested. This patch set is particularly effective when utilised with an anti-fragmentation scheme which groups pages of similar reclaimability together. This patch set is based on Peter Zijlstra's lumpy reclaim V2 patch which forms the foundation. Credit to Mel Gorman for sanitity checking. Mel said: The patches have an application with hugepage pool resizing. When lumpy-reclaim is used used with ZONE_MOVABLE, the hugepages pool can be resized with greater reliability. Testing on a desktop machine with 2GB of RAM showed that growing the hugepage pool with ZONE_MOVABLE on it's own was very slow as the success rate was quite low. Without lumpy-reclaim, each attempt to grow the pool by 100 pages would yield 1 or 2 hugepages. With lumpy-reclaim, getting 40 to 70 hugepages on each attempt was typical. [akpm@osdl.org: ia64 pfn_to_nid fixes and loop cleanup] [bunk@stusta.de: static declarations for internal functions] [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: initial lumpy V2 implementation] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at runtime for example. How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* handle kernelcore=: genericMel Gorman2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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