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* vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not ↵KOSAKI Motohiro2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | being met 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: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: have kswapd sleep for a short interval and double check it should be ↵Mel Gorman2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | asleep 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: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ uniqueTejun Heo2009-10-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates percpu related symbols under kernel/ and mm/ such that percpu symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols. This serves two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu symbol collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu symbols. * kernel/lockdep.c: s/lock_stats/cpu_lock_stats/ * kernel/sched.c: s/init_rq_rt/init_rt_rq_var/ (any better idea?) s/sched_group_cpus/sched_groups/ * kernel/softirq.c: s/ksoftirqd/run_ksoftirqd/a * kernel/softlockup.c: s/(*)_timestamp/softlockup_\1_ts/ s/watchdog_task/softlockup_watchdog/ s/timestamp/ts/ for local variables * kernel/time/timer_stats: s/lookup_lock/tstats_lookup_lock/ * mm/slab.c: s/reap_work/slab_reap_work/ s/reap_node/slab_reap_node/ * mm/vmstat.c: local variable changed to avoid collision with vmstat_work Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars which cause name clashes" patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: (slab/vmstat) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
* mm: vmstat: add isolate pagesKOSAKI Motohiro2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the system is running a heavy load of processes then concurrent reclaim can isolate a large number of pages from the LRU. /proc/vmstat and the output generated for an OOM do not show how many pages were isolated. This has been observed during process fork bomb testing (mstctl11 in LTP). This patch shows the information about isolated pages. Reproduced via: ----------------------- % ./hackbench 140 process 1000 => OOM occur active_anon:146 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:49245 active_file:79 inactive_file:18 isolated_file:113 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 buffer:39 free:370 slab_reclaimable:309 slab_unreclaimable:5492 mapped:53 shmem:15 pagetables:28140 bounce:0 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstatKOSAKI Motohiro2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recently we encountered OOM problems due to memory use of the GEM cache. Generally a large amuont of Shmem/Tmpfs pages tend to create a memory shortage problem. We often use the following calculation to determine the amount of shmem pages: shmem = NR_ACTIVE_ANON + NR_INACTIVE_ANON - NR_ANON_PAGES however the expression does not consider isolated and mlocked pages. This patch adds explicit accounting for pages used by shmem and tmpfs. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: oom analysis: Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log outputKOSAKI Motohiro2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory consumed by stacks. Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: count the number of times zone_reclaim() scans and failsMel Gorman2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that is a more targetted form of direct reclaim. On machines with large NUMA distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that clean unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not being met. There is a heuristic that determines if the scan is worthwhile but it is possible that the heuristic will fail and the CPU gets tied up scanning uselessly. Detecting the situation requires some guesswork and experimentation so this patch adds a counter "zreclaim_failed" to /proc/vmstat. If during high CPU utilisation this counter is increasing rapidly, then the resolution to the problem may be to set /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode to 0. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: name things consistently] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config optionKOSAKI Motohiro2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, nobody wants to turn UNEVICTABLE_LRU off. Thus this configurability is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: don't export nr_saved_scan in /proc/zoneinfoWu Fengguang2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lru->nr_saved_scan's are not meaningful counters for even kernel developers. They typically are smaller than 32 and are always 0 for large lists. So remove them from /proc/zoneinfo. Hopefully this interface change won't break too many scripts. /proc/zoneinfo is too unstructured to be script friendly, and I wonder the affected scripts - if there are any - are still bleeding since the not long ago commit "vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets", which also touched the "scanned" line :) If we are to re-export accumulated vmscan counts in the future, they can go to new lines in /proc/zoneinfo instead of the current form, or to /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo? Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: cleanup the scan batching codeWu Fengguang2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The vmscan batching logic is twisting. Move it into a standalone function nr_scan_try_batch() and document it. No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* page allocator: use allocation flags as an index to the zone watermarkMel Gorman2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW and ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH determin whether pages_min, pages_low or pages_high is used as the zone watermark when allocating the pages. Two branches in the allocator hotpath determine which watermark to use. This patch uses the flags as an array index into a watermark array that is indexed with WMARK_* defines accessed via helpers. All call sites that use zone->pages_* are updated to use the helpers for accessing the values and the array offsets for setting. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected ↵Mel Gorman2009-05-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | holes V2 pfn_valid() is meant to be able to tell if a given PFN has valid memmap associated with it or not. In FLATMEM, it is expected that holes always have valid memmap as long as there is valid PFNs either side of the hole. In SPARSEMEM, it is assumed that a valid section has a memmap for the entire section. However, ARM and maybe other embedded architectures in the future free memmap backing holes to save memory on the assumption the memmap is never used. The page_zone linkages are then broken even though pfn_valid() returns true. A walker of the full memmap must then do this additional check to ensure the memmap they are looking at is sane by making sure the zone and PFN linkages are still valid. This is expensive, but walkers of the full memmap are extremely rare. This was caught before for FLATMEM and hacked around but it hits again for SPARSEMEM because the page_zone linkages can look ok where the PFN linkages are totally screwed. This looks like a hatchet job but the reality is that any clean solution would end up consumning all the memory saved by punching these unexpected holes in the memmap. For example, we tried marking the memmap within the section invalid but the section size exceeds the size of the hole in most cases so pfn_valid() starts returning false where valid memmap exists. Shrinking the size of the section would increase memory consumption offsetting the gains. This patch identifies when an architecture is punching unexpected holes in the memmap that the memory model cannot automatically detect and sets ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL. At the moment, this is restricted to EP93xx which is the model sub-architecture this has been reported on but may expand later. When set, walkers of the full memmap must call memmap_valid_within() for each PFN and passing in what it expects the page and zone to be for that PFN. If it finds the linkages to be broken, it assumes the memmap is invalid for that PFN. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* mm: align vmstat_work's timerAnton Blanchard2009-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | Even though vmstat_work is marked deferrable, there are still benefits to aligning it. For certain applications we want to keep OS jitter as low as possible and aligning timers and work so they occur together can reduce their overall impact. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: introduce for_each_populated_zone() macroKOSAKI Motohiro2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup In almost cases, for_each_zone() is used with populated_zone(). It's because almost function doesn't need memoryless node information. Therefore, for_each_populated_zone() can help to make code simplify. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code.Rusty Russell2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Time to clean up remaining laggards using the old cpu_ functions. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
* cpumask: convert mm/Rusty Russell2008-12-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Use new API Convert kernel mm functions to use struct cpumask. We skip include/linux/percpu.h and mm/allocpercpu.c, which are in flux. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.cAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-23
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.cAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-23
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.cAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-23
| | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.cAlexey Dobriyan2008-10-23
| | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* mlock: count attempts to free mlocked pageLee Schermerhorn2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow free of mlock()ed pages. This shouldn't happen, but during developement, it occasionally did. This patch allows us to survive that condition, while keeping the statistics and events correct for debug. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmstat: mlocked pages statisticsNick Piggin2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add NR_MLOCK zone page state, which provides a (conservative) count of mlocked pages (actually, the number of mlocked pages moved off the LRU). Reworked by lts to fit in with the modified mlock page support in the Reclaim Scalability series. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix incorrect Mlocked field of /proc/meminfo] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: mlocked-pages: add event counting with statistics] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Unevictable LRU Page StatisticsLee Schermerhorn2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Report unevictable pages per zone and system wide. Kosaki Motohiro added support for memory controller unevictable statistics. [riel@redhat.com: fix printk in show_free_areas()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix units in /proc/vmstats] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Debugged-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* unevictable lru: add event counting with statisticsLee Schermerhorn2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix to unevictable-lru-page-statistics.patch Add unevictable lru infrastructure vm events to the statistics patch. Rename the "NORECL_" and "noreclaim_" symbols and text strings to "UNEVICTABLE_" and "unevictable_", respectively. Currently, both the infrastructure and the mlocked pages event are added by a single patch later in the series. This makes it difficult to add or rework the incremental patches. The events actually "belong" with the stats, so pull them up to here. Also, restore the event counting to putback_lru_page(). This was removed from previous patch in series where it was "misplaced". The actual events weren't defined that early. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: 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>
* vmscan: second chance replacement for anonymous pagesRik van Riel2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We avoid evicting and scanning anonymous pages for the most part, but under some workloads we can end up with most of memory filled with anonymous pages. At that point, we suddenly need to clear the referenced bits on all of memory, which can take ages on very large memory systems. We can reduce the maximum number of pages that need to be scanned by not taking the referenced state into account when deactivating an anonymous page. After all, every anonymous page starts out referenced, so why check? If an anonymous page gets referenced again before it reaches the end of the inactive list, we move it back to the active list. To keep the maximum amount of necessary work reasonable, we scale the active to inactive ratio with the size of memory, using the formula active:inactive ratio = sqrt(memory in GB * 10). Kswapd CPU use now seems to scale by the amount of pageout bandwidth, instead of by the amount of memory present in the system. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix OOM with memcg] [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: memcg: lru scan fix] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@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>
* vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file setsRik van Riel2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by real file systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by memory and swap ("anon"). The latter includes tmpfs. The advantage of doing this is that the VM will not have to scan over lots of anonymous pages (which we generally do not want to swap out), just to find the page cache pages that it should evict. This patch has the infrastructure and a basic policy to balance how much we scan the anon lists and how much we scan the file lists. The big policy changes are in separate patches. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: collect lru meminfo statistics from correct offset] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: prevent incorrect oom under split_lru] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix pagevec_move_tail() doesn't treat unevictable page] [hugh@veritas.com: memcg swapbacked pages active] [hugh@veritas.com: splitlru: BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix /proc/vmstat units] [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: memcg: fix handling of shmem migration] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adjust Quicklists field of /proc/meminfo] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix style issue of get_scan_ratio()] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: Use an indexed array for LRU variablesChristoph Lameter2008-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we are defining explicit variables for the inactive and active list. An indexed array can be more generic and avoid repeating similar code in several places in the reclaim code. We are saving a few bytes in terms of code size: Before: text data bss dec hex filename 4097753 573120 4092484 8763357 85b7dd vmlinux After: text data bss dec hex filename 4097729 573120 4092484 8763333 85b7c5 vmlinux Having an easy way to add new lru lists may ease future work on the reclaim code. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [ARM] Skip memory holes in FLATMEM when reading /proc/pagetypeinfoMel Gorman2008-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ordinarily, memory holes in flatmem still have a valid memmap and is safe to use. However, an architecture (ARM) frees up the memmap backing memory holes on the assumption it is never used. /proc/pagetypeinfo reads the whole range of pages in a zone believing that the memmap is valid and that pfn_valid will return false if it is not. On ARM, freeing the memmap breaks the page->zone linkages even though pfn_valid() returns true and the kernel can oops shortly afterwards due to accessing a bogus struct zone *. This patch lets architectures say when FLATMEM can have holes in the memmap. Rather than an expensive check for valid memory, /proc/pagetypeinfo will confirm that the page linkages are still valid by checking page->zone is still the expected zone. The lookup of page_zone is safe as there is a limited range of memory that is accessed when calling page_zone. Even if page_zone happens to return the correct zone, the impact is that the counters in /proc/pagetypeinfo are slightly off but fragmentation monitoring is unlikely to be relevant on an embedded system. Reported-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* mm/vmstat.c: proper externsAdrian Bunk2008-07-24
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds proper extern declarations for five variables in include/linux/vmstat.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nrMike Travis2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr where appropriate Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* make vmstat cpu-unplug safeKOSAKI Motohiro2008-05-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When accessing cpu_online_map, we should prevent dynamic changing of cpu_online_map by get_online_cpus(). Unfortunately, all_vm_events() doesn't do that. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: Add NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counterMiklos Szeredi2008-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fuse will use temporary buffers to write back dirty data from memory mappings (normal writes are done synchronously). This is needed, because there cannot be any guarantee about the time in which a write will complete. By using temporary buffers, from the MM's point if view the page is written back immediately. If the writeout was due to memory pressure, this effectively migrates data from a full zone to a less full zone. This patch adds a new counter (NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP) for the number of pages used as temporary buffers. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add vmstat_text for NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP] Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> 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>
* /proc/pagetypeinfo: fix output for memoryless nodesKOSAKI Motohiro2008-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | on memoryless node, /proc/pagetypeinfo is displayed slightly funny output. this patch fix it. output example (header is outputed, but no data is outputed) -------------------------------------------------------------- Page block order: 14 Pages per block: 16384 Free pages count per migrate type at order 0 1 2 3 4 5 \ 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Number of blocks type Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserve Isolate Page block order: 14 Pages per block: 16384 Free pages count per migrate type at order 0 1 2 3 4 5 \ 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-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>
* vmstats: add cond_resched() to refresh_cpu_vm_stats()Dimitri Sivanich2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We've found that it can take quite a bit of time (100's of usec) to get through the zone loop in refresh_cpu_vm_stats(). Adding a cond_resched() to allow other threads to run in the non-preemptive case. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> 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>
* Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: vmstat events for huge page allocationsAdam Litke2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allocating huge pages directly from the buddy allocator is not guaranteed to succeed. Success depends on several factors (such as the amount of physical memory available and the level of fragmentation). With the addition of dynamic hugetlb pool resizing, allocations can occur much more frequently. For these reasons it is desirable to keep track of huge page allocation successes and failures. Add two new vmstat entries to track huge page allocations that succeed and fail. The presence of the two entries is contingent upon CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE being enabled. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduced ifdeffery] Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: remember what the preferred zone is for zone_statisticsMel Gorman2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On NUMA, zone_statistics() is used to record events like numa hit, miss and foreign. It assumes that the first zone in a zonelist is the preferred zone. When multiple zonelists are replaced by one that is filtered, this is no longer the case. This patch records what the preferred zone is rather than assuming the first zone in the zonelist is it. This simplifies the reading of later patches in this set. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* add "Isolate" migratetype name to /proc/pagetypeinfoKOSAKI Motohiro2008-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a5d76b54a3f3a40385d7f76069a2feac9f1bad63 (memory unplug: page isolation by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki), "isolate" migratetype added. but unfortunately, it doesn't treat /proc/pagetypeinfo display logic. this patch add "Isolate" to pagetype name field. /proc/pagetype before: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reclaimable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Movable 2 3 3 1 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA, type <NULL> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Unmovable 1 9 7 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reclaimable 5 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Movable 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 60 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone Normal, type <NULL> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Unmovable 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Reclaimable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Movable 236 62 6 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 16 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone HighMem, type <NULL> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Number of blocks type Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserve <NULL> Node 0, zone DMA 1 0 2 1 0 Node 0, zone Normal 10 40 169 1 0 Node 0, zone HighMem 2 0 283 1 0 after: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reclaimable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Movable 2 3 3 1 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA, type Isolate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Unmovable 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reclaimable 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Movable 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 196 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone Normal, type Isolate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Unmovable 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Reclaimable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Movable 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 200 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone HighMem, type Isolate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Number of blocks type Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserve Isolate Node 0, zone DMA 1 0 2 1 0 Node 0, zone Normal 8 4 207 1 0 Node 0, zone HighMem 2 0 283 1 0 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-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>
* vmstat: remove prefetchChristoph Lameter2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | Remove the prefetch logic in order to avoid touching impossible per cpu areas. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Page allocator: get rid of the list of cold pagesChristoph Lameter2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have repeatedly discussed if the cold pages still have a point. There is one way to join the two lists: Use a single list and put the cold pages at the end and the hot pages at the beginning. That way a single list can serve for both types of allocations. The discussion of the RFC for this and Mel's measurements indicate that there may not be too much of a point left to having separate lists for hot and cold pages (see http://marc.info/?t=119492914200001&r=1&w=2). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmstat: small revisions to refresh_cpu_vm_stats()Christoph Lameter2008-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. Add comments explaining how the function can be called. 2. Collect global diffs in a local array and only spill them once into the global counters when the zone scan is finished. This means that we only touch each global counter once instead of each time we fold cpu counters into zone counters. 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>
* vmstat: fix section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap2007-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | Mark start_cpu_timer() as __cpuinit instead of __devinit. Fixes this section warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x60e53): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_cpu_timer (between 'vmstat_cpuup_callback' and 'vmstat_show') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> 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>
* 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>
* mm/vmstat.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the following cleanups: - make the needlessly global setup_vmstat() static - remove the unused refresh_vm_stats() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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>
* 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>
* Remove fs.h from mm.hAlexey Dobriyan2007-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this, 1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway. 2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it. As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%). Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh): alpha arm-mx1ads mips-bigsur powerpc-ebony alpha-allnoconfig arm-neponset mips-capcella powerpc-g5 alpha-defconfig arm-netwinder mips-cobalt powerpc-holly alpha-up arm-netx mips-db1000 powerpc-iseries arm arm-ns9xxx mips-db1100 powerpc-linkstation arm-assabet arm-omap_h2_1610 mips-db1200 powerpc-lite5200 arm-at91rm9200dk arm-onearm mips-db1500 powerpc-maple arm-at91rm9200ek arm-picotux200 mips-db1550 powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2 arm-at91sam9260ek arm-pleb mips-ddb5477 powerpc-mpc8272_ads arm-at91sam9261ek arm-pnx4008 mips-decstation powerpc-mpc8313_rdb arm-at91sam9263ek arm-pxa255-idp mips-e55 powerpc-mpc832x_mds arm-at91sam9rlek arm-realview mips-emma2rh powerpc-mpc832x_rdb arm-ateb9200 arm-realview-smp mips-excite powerpc-mpc834x_itx arm-badge4 arm-rpc mips-fulong powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp arm-carmeva arm-s3c2410 mips-ip22 powerpc-mpc834x_mds arm-cerfcube arm-shannon mips-ip27 powerpc-mpc836x_mds arm-clps7500 arm-shark mips-ip32 powerpc-mpc8540_ads arm-collie arm-simpad mips-jazz powerpc-mpc8544_ds arm-corgi arm-spitz mips-jmr3927 powerpc-mpc8560_ads arm-csb337 arm-trizeps4 mips-malta powerpc-mpc8568mds arm-csb637 arm-versatile mips-mipssim powerpc-mpc85xx_cds arm-ebsa110 i386 mips-mpc30x powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn arm-edb7211 i386-allnoconfig mips-msp71xx powerpc-mpc866_ads arm-em_x270 i386-defconfig mips-ocelot powerpc-mpc885_ads arm-ep93xx i386-up mips-pb1100 powerpc-pasemi arm-footbridge ia64 mips-pb1500 powerpc-pmac32 arm-fortunet ia64-allnoconfig mips-pb1550 powerpc-ppc64 arm-h3600 ia64-bigsur mips-pnx8550-jbs powerpc-prpmc2800 arm-h7201 ia64-defconfig mips-pnx8550-stb810 powerpc-ps3 arm-h7202 ia64-gensparse mips-qemu powerpc-pseries arm-hackkit ia64-sim mips-rbhma4200 powerpc-up arm-integrator ia64-sn2 mips-rbhma4500 s390 arm-iop13xx ia64-tiger mips-rm200 s390-allnoconfig arm-iop32x ia64-up mips-sb1250-swarm s390-defconfig arm-iop33x ia64-zx1 mips-sead s390-up arm-ixp2000 m68k mips-tb0219 sparc arm-ixp23xx m68k-amiga mips-tb0226 sparc-allnoconfig arm-ixp4xx m68k-apollo mips-tb0287 sparc-defconfig arm-jornada720 m68k-atari mips-workpad sparc-up arm-kafa m68k-bvme6000 mips-wrppmc sparc64 arm-kb9202 m68k-hp300 mips-yosemite sparc64-allnoconfig arm-ks8695 m68k-mac parisc sparc64-defconfig arm-lart m68k-mvme147 parisc-allnoconfig sparc64-up arm-lpd270 m68k-mvme16x parisc-defconfig um-x86_64 arm-lpd7a400 m68k-q40 parisc-up x86_64 arm-lpd7a404 m68k-sun3 powerpc x86_64-allnoconfig arm-lubbock m68k-sun3x powerpc-cell x86_64-defconfig arm-lusl7200 mips powerpc-celleb x86_64-up arm-mainstone mips-atlas powerpc-chrp32 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zoneMel Gorman2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following 8 patches against 2.6.20-mm2 create a zone called ZONE_MOVABLE that is only usable by allocations that specify both __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_MOVABLE. This has the effect of keeping all non-movable pages within a single memory partition while allowing movable allocations to be satisfied from either partition. The patches may be applied with the list-based anti-fragmentation patches that groups pages together based on mobility. The size of the zone is determined by a kernelcore= parameter specified at boot-time. This specifies how much memory is usable by non-movable allocations and the remainder is used for ZONE_MOVABLE. Any range of pages within ZONE_MOVABLE can be released by migrating the pages or by reclaiming. When selecting a zone to take pages from for ZONE_MOVABLE, there are two things to consider. First, only memory from the highest populated zone is used for ZONE_MOVABLE. On the x86, this is probably going to be ZONE_HIGHMEM but it would be ZONE_DMA on ppc64 or possibly ZONE_DMA32 on x86_64. Second, the amount of memory usable by the kernel will be spread evenly throughout NUMA nodes where possible. If the nodes are not of equal size, the amount of memory usable by the kernel on some nodes may be greater than others. By default, the zone is not as useful for hugetlb allocations because they are pinned and non-migratable (currently at least). A sysctl is provided that allows huge pages to be allocated from that zone. This means that the huge page pool can be resized to the size of ZONE_MOVABLE during the lifetime of the system assuming that pages are not mlocked. Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always the largest contiguous block we care about. Credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for catching a large variety of problems during review of the patches. This patch creates an additional zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. This zone is only usable by allocations which specify both __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_MOVABLE. Hot-added memory continues to be placed in their existing destination as there is no mechanism to redirect them to a specific zone. [y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com: Fix section mismatch of memory hotplug related code] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fixup /proc/vmstat outputPeter Zijlstra2007-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Line up the vmstat_text with zone_stat_item enum zone_stat_item { /* First 128 byte cacheline (assuming 64 bit words) */ NR_FREE_PAGES, NR_INACTIVE, NR_ACTIVE, We current have nr_active and nr_inactive reversed. [ "OK with patch, though using initializers canbe handy to prevent such things in future: static const char * const vmstat_text[] = { [NR_FREE_PAGES] = "nr_free_pages", ..." - Alexey ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Detach sched.h from mm.hAlexey Dobriyan2007-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock() mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why. This patch a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly. e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were getting them indirectly Net result is: a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if they don't need sched.h b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files: on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files, after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%). Cross-compile tested on all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs, alpha alpha-up arm i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig ia64 ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-up sparc sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* VM statistics: Make timer deferrableChristoph Lameter2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VM statistics updates do not matter if the kernel is in idle powersaving mode. So allow the timer to be deferred. It would be better though if we could switch the timer between deferrable and nondeferrable based on differentials present. The timer would start out nondeferrable and if we find that there were no updates in the last statistics interval then we would switch the timer to deferrable. If the timer later finds again that there are differentials then go to nondeferrable again. And yet another way would be to run the timer shortly before going to idle? The solution here means that the VM counters may be slightly off during idle since differentials may be still pending while the timer is deferred. 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>
* Move remote node draining out of slab allocatorsChristoph Lameter2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the slab allocators contain callbacks into the page allocator to perform the draining of pagesets on remote nodes. This requires SLUB to have a whole subsystem in order to be compatible with SLAB. Moving node draining out of the slab allocators avoids a section of code in SLUB. Move the node draining so that is is done when the vm statistics are updated. At that point we are already touching all the cachelines with the pagesets of a processor. Add a expire counter there. If we have to update per zone or global vm statistics then assume that the pageset will require subsequent draining. The expire counter will be decremented on each vm stats update pass until it reaches zero. Then we will drain one batch from the pageset. The draining will cause vm counter updates which will then cause another expiration until the pcp is empty. So we will drain a batch every 3 seconds. Note that remote node draining is a somewhat esoteric feature that is required on large NUMA systems because otherwise significant portions of system memory can become trapped in pcp queues. The number of pcp is determined by the number of processors and nodes in a system. A system with 4 processors and 2 nodes has 8 pcps which is okay. But a system with 1024 processors and 512 nodes has 512k pcps with a high potential for large amount of memory being caught in them. 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>
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