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* nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devicesBernd Schmidt2010-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slightly rearrange the logic that determines capabilities and vm_flags. Disable BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT in all cases if the device can't support the protections. Allow private readonly mappings of readonly backing devices. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: ERR_PTR dereference in mpol_shared_policy_init()Dan Carpenter2010-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | The original code called mpol_put(new) while "new" was an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zoneHaicheng Li2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add global mutex zonelists_mutex to fix the possible race: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 (1) zone->present_pages += online_pages; (2) build_all_zonelists(); (3) alloc_page(); (4) free_page(); (5) build_all_zonelists(); (6) __build_all_zonelists(); (7) zone->pageset = alloc_percpu(); In step (3,4), zone->pageset still points to boot_pageset, so bad things may happen if 2+ nodes are in this state. Even if only 1 node is accessing the boot_pageset, (3) may still consume too much memory to fail the memory allocations in step (7). Besides, atomic operation ensures alloc_percpu() in step (7) will never fail since there is a new fresh memory block added in step(6). [haicheng.li@linux.intel.com: hold zonelists_mutex when build_all_zonelists] Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mem-hotplug: avoid multiple zones sharing same boot strapping boot_pagesetHaicheng Li2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For each new populated zone of hotadded node, need to update its pagesets with dynamically allocated per_cpu_pageset struct for all possible CPUs: 1) Detach zone->pageset from the shared boot_pageset at end of __build_all_zonelists(). 2) Use mutex to protect zone->pageset when it's still shared in onlined_pages() Otherwises, multiple zones of different nodes would share same boot strapping boot_pageset for same CPU, which will finally cause below kernel panic: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1239! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff811300c1>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x131/0x7b0 [<ffffffff81162e67>] alloc_pages_current+0x87/0xd0 [<ffffffff81128407>] __page_cache_alloc+0x67/0x70 [<ffffffff811325f0>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x120/0x260 [<ffffffff81132751>] ra_submit+0x21/0x30 [<ffffffff811329c6>] ondemand_readahead+0x166/0x2c0 [<ffffffff81132ba0>] page_cache_async_readahead+0x80/0xa0 [<ffffffff8112a0e4>] generic_file_aio_read+0x364/0x670 [<ffffffff81266cfa>] nfs_file_read+0xca/0x130 [<ffffffff8117b20a>] do_sync_read+0xfa/0x140 [<ffffffff8117bf75>] vfs_read+0xb5/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8117c151>] sys_read+0x51/0x80 [<ffffffff8103c032>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b RIP [<ffffffff8112ff13>] get_page_from_freelist+0x883/0x900 RSP <ffff88000d1e78a8> ---[ end trace 4bda28328b9990db ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: merge fix] Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mem-hotplug: separate setup_per_cpu_pageset() into separate functionsWu Fengguang2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No behavior change here. Move some of setup_per_cpu_pageset() code into a new function setup_zone_pageset() that will be useful for memory hotplug. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* highmem: remove unneeded #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT for ↵Akinobu Mita2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | debug_kmap_atomic() In f4112de6b679d84bd9b9681c7504be7bdfb7c7d5 ("mm: introduce debug_kmap_atomic") I said that debug_kmap_atomic() needs CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT. It was wrong. (I thought irqs_disabled() is only available when the architecture has CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT) Remove the #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT check to enable kmap_atomic() debugging for the architectures which do not have CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpu/mem hotplug: enable CPUs online before local memory onlineminskey guo2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable users to online CPUs even if the CPUs belongs to a numa node which doesn't have onlined local memory. The zonlists(pg_data_t.node_zonelists[]) of a numa node are created either in system boot/init period, or at the time of local memory online. For a numa node without onlined local memory, its zonelists are not initialized at present. As a result, any memory allocation operations executed by CPUs within this node will fail. In fact, an out-of-memory error is triggered when attempt to online CPUs before memory comes to online. This patch tries to create zonelists for such numa nodes, so that the memory allocation for this node can be fallback'ed to other nodes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded export] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: minskey guo<chaohong.guo@intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: remove isolate_pages callback scan controlJohannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For now, we have global isolation vs. memory control group isolation, do not allow the reclaim entry function to set an arbitrary page isolation callback, we do not need that flexibility. And since we already pass around the group descriptor for the memory control group isolation case, just use it to decide which one of the two isolator functions to use. The decisions can be merged into nearby branches, so no extra cost there. In fact, we save the indirect calls. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: 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: remove all_unreclaimable scan controlJohannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | This scan control is abused to communicate a return value from shrink_zones(). Write this idiomatically and remove the knob. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: document follow_page()Johannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: introduce free_pages_prepare()KOSAKI Motohiro2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | free_hot_cold_page() and __free_pages_ok() have very similar freeing preparation. Consolidate them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix busted coding style] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@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>
* vmscan: page_check_references(): check low order lumpy reclaim properlyKOSAKI Motohiro2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If vmscan is under lumpy reclaim mode, it have to ignore referenced bit for making contenious free pages. but current page_check_references() doesn't. Fix it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.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>
* readahead.c: fix commentHuang Shijie2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | Fix a wrong comment over page_cache_async_readahead(). Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vmscan: prevent get_scan_ratio() rounding errorsShaohua Li2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_scan_ratio() calculates percentage and if the percentage is < 1%, it will round percentage down to 0% and cause we completely ignore scanning anon/file pages to reclaim memory even the total anon/file pages are very big. To avoid underflow, we don't use percentage, instead we directly calculate how many pages should be scaned. In this way, we should get several scanned pages for < 1% percent. This has some benefits: 1. increase our calculation precision 2. making our scan more smoothly. Without this, if percent[x] is underflow, shrink_zone() doesn't scan any pages and suddenly it scans all pages when priority is zero. With this, even priority isn't zero, shrink_zone() gets chance to scan some pages. Note, this patch doesn't really change logics, but just increase precision. For system with a lot of memory, this might slightly changes behavior. For example, in a sequential file read workload, without the patch, we don't swap any anon pages. With it, if anon memory size is bigger than 16G, we will see one anon page swapped. The 16G is calculated as PAGE_SIZE * priority(4096) * (fp/ap). fp/ap is assumed to be 1024 which is common in this workload. So the impact sounds not a big deal. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: consider the entire user address space during node migrationGreg Thelen2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use mm->task_size instead of TASK_SIZE to ensure that the entire user address space is migrated. mm->task_size is independent of the calling task context. TASK SIZE may be dependant on the address space size of the calling process. Usage of TASK_SIZE can lead to partial address space migration if the calling process was 32 bit and the migrating process was 64 bit. Here is the test script used on 64 system with a 32 bit echo process: mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -o cpuset cd /cgroup mkdir 0 echo 1 > 0/cpuset.cpus echo 0 > 0/cpuset.mems echo 1 > 0/cpuset.memory_migrate mkdir 1 echo 1 > 1/cpuset.cpus echo 1 > 1/cpuset.mems echo 1 > 1/cpuset.memory_migrate echo $$ > 0/tasks 64_bit_process & pid=$! echo $pid > 1/tasks # This does not migrate all process pages without # this patch. If 64 bit echo is used or this patch is # applied, then the full address space of $pid is # migrated. To check memory migration, I watched: grep MemUsed /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: compaction: defer compaction using an exponential backoff when ↵Mel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | compaction fails The fragmentation index may indicate that a failure is due to external fragmentation but after a compaction run completes, it is still possible for an allocation to fail. There are two obvious reasons as to why o Page migration cannot move all pages so fragmentation remains o A suitable page may exist but watermarks are not met In the event of compaction followed by an allocation failure, this patch defers further compaction in the zone (1 << compact_defer_shift) times. If the next compaction attempt also fails, compact_defer_shift is increased up to a maximum of 6. If compaction succeeds, the defer counters are reset again. The zone that is deferred is the first zone in the zonelist - i.e. the preferred zone. To defer compaction in the other zones, the information would need to be stored in the zonelist or implemented similar to the zonelist_cache. This would impact the fast-paths and is not justified at this time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 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>
* mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted ↵Mel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and when it should be reclaimed The kernel applies some heuristics when deciding if memory should be compacted or reclaimed to satisfy a high-order allocation. One of these is based on the fragmentation. If the index is below 500, memory will not be compacted. This choice is arbitrary and not based on data. To help optimise the system and set a sensible default for this value, this patch adds a sysctl extfrag_threshold. The kernel will only compact memory if the fragmentation index is above the extfrag_threshold. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix build errors when proc fs is not configured] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 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>
* mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation failsMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ordinarily when a high-order allocation fails, direct reclaim is entered to free pages to satisfy the allocation. With this patch, it is determined if an allocation failed due to external fragmentation instead of low memory and if so, the calling process will compact until a suitable page is freed. Compaction by moving pages in memory is considerably cheaper than paging out to disk and works where there are locked pages or no swap. If compaction fails to free a page of a suitable size, then reclaim will still occur. Direct compaction returns as soon as possible. As each block is compacted, it is checked if a suitable page has been freed and if so, it returns. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix build errors] [aarcange@redhat.com: fix count_vm_event preempt in memory compaction direct reclaim] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: compaction: add /sys trigger for per-node memory compactionMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a per-node sysfs file called compact. When the file is written to, each zone in that node is compacted. The intention that this would be used by something like a job scheduler in a batch system before a job starts so that the job can allocate the maximum number of hugepages without significant start-up cost. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-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: 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: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compactionMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary value is written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user of such a trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target application runs. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: compaction: memory compaction coreMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is the core of a mechanism which compacts memory in a zone by relocating movable pages towards the end of the zone. A single compaction run involves a migration scanner and a free scanner. Both scanners operate on pageblock-sized areas in the zone. The migration scanner starts at the bottom of the zone and searches for all movable pages within each area, isolating them onto a private list called migratelist. The free scanner starts at the top of the zone and searches for suitable areas and consumes the free pages within making them available for the migration scanner. The pages isolated for migration are then migrated to the newly isolated free pages. [aarcange@redhat.com: Fix unsafe optimisation] [mel@csn.ul.ie: do not schedule work on other CPUs for compaction] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 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>
* mm: move definition for LRU isolation modes to a headerMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, vmscan.c defines the isolation modes for __isolate_lru_page(). Memory compaction needs access to these modes for isolating pages for migration. This patch exports them. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: 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>
* mm: export fragmentation index via debugfsMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The fragmentation fragmentation index, is only meaningful if an allocation would fail and indicates what the failure is due to. A value of -1 such as in many of the examples above states that the allocation would succeed. If it would fail, the value is between 0 and 1. A value tending towards 0 implies the allocation failed due to a lack of memory. A value tending towards 1 implies it failed due to external fragmentation. For the most part, the huge page size will be the size of interest but not necessarily so it is exported on a per-order and per-zo basis via /sys/kernel/debug/extfrag/extfrag_index > cat /sys/kernel/debug/extfrag/extfrag_index Node 0, zone DMA -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.00 Node 0, zone Normal -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 0.954 Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: 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>
* mm: export unusable free space index via debugfsMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The unusable free space index measures how much of the available free memory cannot be used to satisfy an allocation of a given size and is a value between 0 and 1. The higher the value, the more of free memory is unusable and by implication, the worse the external fragmentation is. For the most part, the huge page size will be the size of interest but not necessarily so it is exported on a per-order and per-zone basis via /sys/kernel/debug/extfrag/unusable_index. > cat /sys/kernel/debug/extfrag/unusable_index Node 0, zone DMA 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.005 0.013 0.021 0.037 0.037 0.101 0.230 Node 0, zone Normal 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.015 0.028 0.028 0.054 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix allnoconfig] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
* mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during ↵Mel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | migration by not migrating temporary stacks Page migration requires rmap to be able to find all ptes mapping a page at all times, otherwise the migration entry can be instantiated, but it is possible to leave one behind if the second rmap_walk fails to find the page. If this page is later faulted, migration_entry_to_page() will call BUG because the page is locked indicating the page was migrated by the migration PTE not cleaned up. For example kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:105! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff810e951a>] handle_mm_fault+0x3f8/0x76a [<ffffffff8130c7a2>] do_page_fault+0x44a/0x46e [<ffffffff813099b5>] page_fault+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff8114de33>] load_elf_binary+0x152a/0x192b [<ffffffff8111329b>] search_binary_handler+0x173/0x313 [<ffffffff81114896>] do_execve+0x219/0x30a [<ffffffff8100a5c6>] sys_execve+0x43/0x5e [<ffffffff8100320a>] stub_execve+0x6a/0xc0 RIP [<ffffffff811094ff>] migration_entry_wait+0xc1/0x129 There is a race between shift_arg_pages and migration that triggers this bug. A temporary stack is setup during exec and later moved. If migration moves a page in the temporary stack and the VMA is then removed before migration completes, the migration PTE may not be found leading to a BUG when the stack is faulted. This patch causes pages within the temporary stack during exec to be skipped by migration. It does this by marking the VMA covering the temporary stack with an otherwise impossible combination of VMA flags. These flags are cleared when the temporary stack is moved to its final location. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: idea for having migration skip temporary stacks] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-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>
* mm: allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-removeMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA or on the architecture being able to hot-remove memory. The main users of page migration such as sys_move_pages(), sys_migrate_pages() and cpuset process migration are only beneficial on NUMA so it makes sense. As memory compaction will operate within a zone and is useful on both NUMA and non-NUMA systems, this patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set if the user selects CONFIG_COMPACTION as an option. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Depend on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> 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: migration: allow the migration of PageSwapCache pagesMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PageAnon pages that are unmapped may or may not have an anon_vma so are not currently migrated. However, a swap cache page can be migrated and fits this description. This patch identifies page swap caches and allows them to be migrated but ensures that no attempt to made to remap the pages would would potentially try to access an already freed anon_vma. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
* mm: migration: do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pagesMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rmap_walk_anon() was triggering errors in memory compaction that look like use-after-free errors. The problem is that between the page being isolated from the LRU and rcu_read_lock() being taken, the mapcount of the page dropped to 0 and the anon_vma gets freed. This can happen during memory compaction if pages being migrated belong to a process that exits before migration completes. Hence, the use-after-free race looks like 1. Page isolated for migration 2. Process exits 3. page_mapcount(page) drops to zero so anon_vma was no longer reliable 4. unmap_and_move() takes the rcu_lock but the anon_vma is already garbage 4. call try_to_unmap, looks up tha anon_vma and "locks" it but the lock is garbage. This patch checks the mapcount after the rcu lock is taken. If the mapcount is zero, the anon_vma is assumed to be freed and no further action is taken. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
* mm: migration: share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migrationMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For clarity of review, KSM and page migration have separate refcounts on the anon_vma. While clear, this is a waste of memory. This patch gets KSM and page migration to share their toys in a spirit of harmony. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: migration: take a reference to the anon_vma before migratingMel Gorman2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchset is a memory compaction mechanism that reduces external fragmentation memory by moving GFP_MOVABLE pages to a fewer number of pageblocks. The term "compaction" was chosen as there are is a number of mechanisms that are not mutually exclusive that can be used to defragment memory. For example, lumpy reclaim is a form of defragmentation as was slub "defragmentation" (really a form of targeted reclaim). Hence, this is called "compaction" to distinguish it from other forms of defragmentation. In this implementation, a full compaction run involves two scanners operating within a zone - a migration and a free scanner. The migration scanner starts at the beginning of a zone and finds all movable pages within one pageblock_nr_pages-sized area and isolates them on a migratepages list. The free scanner begins at the end of the zone and searches on a per-area basis for enough free pages to migrate all the pages on the migratepages list. As each area is respectively migrated or exhausted of free pages, the scanners are advanced one area. A compaction run completes within a zone when the two scanners meet. This method is a bit primitive but is easy to understand and greater sophistication would require maintenance of counters on a per-pageblock basis. This would have a big impact on allocator fast-paths to improve compaction which is a poor trade-off. It also does not try relocate virtually contiguous pages to be physically contiguous. However, assuming transparent hugepages were in use, a hypothetical khugepaged might reuse compaction code to isolate free pages, split them and relocate userspace pages for promotion. Memory compaction can be triggered in one of three ways. It may be triggered explicitly by writing any value to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory and compacting all of memory. It can be triggered on a per-node basis by writing any value to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/compact where N is the node ID to be compacted. When a process fails to allocate a high-order page, it may compact memory in an attempt to satisfy the allocation instead of entering direct reclaim. Explicit compaction does not finish until the two scanners meet and direct compaction ends if a suitable page becomes available that would meet watermarks. The series is in 14 patches. The first three are not "core" to the series but are important pre-requisites. Patch 1 reference counts anon_vma for rmap_walk_anon(). Without this patch, it's possible to use anon_vma after free if the caller is not holding a VMA or mmap_sem for the pages in question. While there should be no existing user that causes this problem, it's a requirement for memory compaction to be stable. The patch is at the start of the series for bisection reasons. Patch 2 merges the KSM and migrate counts. It could be merged with patch 1 but would be slightly harder to review. Patch 3 skips over unmapped anon pages during migration as there are no guarantees about the anon_vma existing. There is a window between when a page was isolated and migration started during which anon_vma could disappear. Patch 4 notes that PageSwapCache pages can still be migrated even if they are unmapped. Patch 5 allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA Patch 6 exports a "unusable free space index" via debugfs. It's a measure of external fragmentation that takes the size of the allocation request into account. It can also be calculated from userspace so can be dropped if requested Patch 7 exports a "fragmentation index" which only has meaning when an allocation request fails. It determines if an allocation failure would be due to a lack of memory or external fragmentation. Patch 8 moves the definition for LRU isolation modes for use by compaction Patch 9 is the compaction mechanism although it's unreachable at this point Patch 10 adds a means of compacting all of memory with a proc trgger Patch 11 adds a means of compacting a specific node with a sysfs trigger Patch 12 adds "direct compaction" before "direct reclaim" if it is determined there is a good chance of success. Patch 13 adds a sysctl that allows tuning of the threshold at which the kernel will compact or direct reclaim Patch 14 temporarily disables compaction if an allocation failure occurs after compaction. Testing of compaction was in three stages. For the test, debugging, preempt, the sleep watchdog and lockdep were all enabled but nothing nasty popped out. min_free_kbytes was tuned as recommended by hugeadm to help fragmentation avoidance and high-order allocations. It was tested on X86, X86-64 and PPC64. Ths first test represents one of the easiest cases that can be faced for lumpy reclaim or memory compaction. 1. Machine freshly booted and configured for hugepage usage with a) hugeadm --create-global-mounts b) hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:8G c) hugeadm --set-recommended-min_free_kbytes d) hugeadm --set-recommended-shmmax The min_free_kbytes here is important. Anti-fragmentation works best when pageblocks don't mix. hugeadm knows how to calculate a value that will significantly reduce the worst of external-fragmentation-related events as reported by the mm_page_alloc_extfrag tracepoint. 2. Load up memory a) Start updatedb b) Create in parallel a X files of pagesize*128 in size. Wait until files are created. By parallel, I mean that 4096 instances of dd were launched, one after the other using &. The crude objective being to mix filesystem metadata allocations with the buffer cache. c) Delete every second file so that pageblocks are likely to have holes d) kill updatedb if it's still running At this point, the system is quiet, memory is full but it's full with clean filesystem metadata and clean buffer cache that is unmapped. This is readily migrated or discarded so you'd expect lumpy reclaim to have no significant advantage over compaction but this is at the POC stage. 3. In increments, attempt to allocate 5% of memory as hugepages. Measure how long it took, how successful it was, how many direct reclaims took place and how how many compactions. Note the compaction figures might not fully add up as compactions can take place for orders other than the hugepage size X86 vanilla compaction Final page count 913 916 (attempted 1002) pages reclaimed 68296 9791 X86-64 vanilla compaction Final page count: 901 902 (attempted 1002) Total pages reclaimed: 112599 53234 PPC64 vanilla compaction Final page count: 93 94 (attempted 110) Total pages reclaimed: 103216 61838 There was not a dramatic improvement in success rates but it wouldn't be expected in this case either. What was important is that fewer pages were reclaimed in all cases reducing the amount of IO required to satisfy a huge page allocation. The second tests were all performance related - kernbench, netperf, iozone and sysbench. None showed anything too remarkable. The last test was a high-order allocation stress test. Many kernel compiles are started to fill memory with a pressured mix of unmovable and movable allocations. During this, an attempt is made to allocate 90% of memory as huge pages - one at a time with small delays between attempts to avoid flooding the IO queue. vanilla compaction Percentage of request allocated X86 98 99 Percentage of request allocated X86-64 95 98 Percentage of request allocated PPC64 55 70 This patch: rmap_walk_anon() does not use page_lock_anon_vma() for looking up and locking an anon_vma and it does not appear to have sufficient locking to ensure the anon_vma does not disappear from under it. This patch copies an approach used by KSM to take a reference on the anon_vma while pages are being migrated. This should prevent rmap_walk() running into nasty surprises later because anon_vma has been freed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 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>
* mm: default to node zonelist ordering when nodes have only lowmemDavid Rientjes2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two types of zonelist ordering methodologies: - node order, preferring allocations on a node to stay local to and - zone order, preferring allocations come from a higher zone to avoid allocating in lowmem zones even though they may not be local. The ordering technique used by the kernel is configurable on the command line, but also has some logic to determine what the default should be. This logic currently lacks knowledge of systems where a node may only have lowmem. For such systems, it is necessary to use node order so that GFP_KERNEL allocations may be satisfied by nodes consisting of only lowmem. If zone order is used, GFP_KERNEL allocations to such nodes are actually allocated on a node with local affinity that includes ZONE_NORMAL. This change defaults to node zonelist ordering if any node lacks ZONE_NORMAL. To force zone order, append 'numa_zonelist_order=zone' to the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
* mincore: do nested page table walksJohannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do page table walks with the well-known nested loops we use in several other places already. This avoids doing full page table walks after every pte range and also allows to handle unmapped areas bigger than one pte range in one go. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mincore: pass ranges as start,end address pairsJohannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | Instead of passing a start address and a number of pages into the helper functions, convert them to use a start and an end address. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mincore: break do_mincore() into logical piecesJohannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split out functions to handle hugetlb ranges, pte ranges and unmapped ranges, to improve readability but also to prepare the file structure for nested page table walks. No semantic changes intended. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mincore: cleanupsJohannes Weiner2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes some minor issues that bugged me while going over the code: o adjust argument order of do_mincore() to match the syscall o simplify range length calculation o drop superfluous shift in huge tlb calculation, address is page aligned o drop dead nr_huge calculation o check pte_none() before pte_present() o comment and whitespace fixes No semantic changes intended. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's memsMiao Xie2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all old unallowed bits later. But in the way, the allocator may find that there is no node to alloc memory. The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example: (mpol: mempolicy) task1 task1's mpol task2 alloc page 1 alloc on node0? NO 1 1 change mems from 1 to 0 1 rebind task1's mpol 0-1 set new bits 0 clear disallowed bits alloc on node1? NO 0 ... can't alloc page goto oom This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after read-side task ends the current memory allocation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: restructure rebinding-mempolicy functionsMiao Xie2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nick Piggin reported that the allocator may see an empty nodemask when changing cpuset's mems[1]. It happens only on the kernel that do not do atomic nodemask_t stores. (MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG) But I found that there is also a problem on the kernel that can do atomic nodemask_t stores. The problem is that the allocator can't find a node to alloc page when changing cpuset's mems though there is a lot of free memory. The reason is like this: (mpol: mempolicy) task1 task1's mpol task2 alloc page 1 alloc on node0? NO 1 1 change mems from 1 to 0 1 rebind task1's mpol 0-1 set new bits 0 clear disallowed bits alloc on node1? NO 0 ... can't alloc page goto oom I can use the attached program reproduce it by the following step: # mkdir /dev/cpuset # mount -t cpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset # mkdir /dev/cpuset/1 # echo `cat /dev/cpuset/cpus` > /dev/cpuset/1/cpus # echo `cat /dev/cpuset/mems` > /dev/cpuset/1/mems # echo $$ > /dev/cpuset/1/tasks # numactl --membind=`cat /dev/cpuset/mems` ./cpuset_mem_hog <nr_tasks> & <nr_tasks> = max(nr_cpus - 1, 1) # killall -s SIGUSR1 cpuset_mem_hog # ./change_mems.sh several hours later, oom will happen though there is a lot of free memory. This patchset fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after read-side task ends the current memory allocation. This patch: In order to fix no node to alloc memory, when we want to update mempolicy and mems_allowed, we expand the set of nodes first (set all the newly nodes) and shrink the set of nodes lazily(clean disallowed nodes), But the mempolicy's rebind functions may breaks the expanding. So we restructure the mempolicy's rebind functions and split the rebind work to two steps, just like the update of cpuset's mems: The 1st step: expand the set of the mempolicy's nodes. The 2nd step: shrink the set of the mempolicy's nodes. It is used when there is no real lock to protect the mempolicy in the read-side. Otherwise we can do rebind work at once. In order to implement it, we define enum mpol_rebind_step { MPOL_REBIND_ONCE, MPOL_REBIND_STEP1, MPOL_REBIND_STEP2, MPOL_REBIND_NSTEP, }; If the mempolicy needn't be updated by two steps, we can pass MPOL_REBIND_ONCE to the rebind functions. Or we can pass MPOL_REBIND_STEP1 to do the first step of the rebind work and pass MPOL_REBIND_STEP2 to do the second step work. Besides that, it maybe long time between these two step and we have to release the lock that protects mempolicy and mems_allowed. If we hold the lock once again, we must check whether the current mempolicy is under the rebinding (the first step has been done) or not, because the task may alloc a new mempolicy when we don't hold the lock. So we defined the following flag to identify it: #define MPOL_F_REBINDING (1 << 2) The new functions will be used in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: factor mpol_shared_policy_init() return pathsLee Schermerhorn2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Factor out duplicate put/frees in mpol_shared_policy_init() to a common return path. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.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>
* mempolicy: rename policy_types and cleanup initializationLee Schermerhorn2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename 'policy_types[]' to 'policy_modes[]' to better match the array contents. Use designated intializer syntax for policy_modes[]. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.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>
* mempolicy: lose unnecessary loop variable in mpol_parse_str()Lee Schermerhorn2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't really need the extra variable 'i' in mpol_parse_str(). The only use is as the the loop variable. Then, it's assigned to 'mode'. Just use mode, and loose the 'uninitialized_var()' macro. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.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>
* mempolicy: don't call mpol_set_nodemask() when no_contextLee Schermerhorn2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No need to call mpol_set_nodemask() when we have no context for the mempolicy. This can occur when we're parsing a tmpfs 'mpol' mount option. Just save the raw nodemask in the mempolicy's w.user_nodemask member for use when a tmpfs/shmem file is created. mpol_shared_policy_init() will "contextualize" the policy for the new file based on the creating task's context. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.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>
* mempolicy: remove redundant checkBob Liu2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lee's patch "mempolicy: use MPOL_PREFERRED for system-wide default policy" has made the MPOL_DEFAULT only used in the memory policy APIs. So, no need to check in __mpol_equal also. Also get rid of mpol_match_intent() and move its logic directly into __mpol_equal(). Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 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>
* mempolicy: remove case MPOL_INTERLEAVE from policy_zonelist()Bob Liu2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | In policy_zonelist() mode MPOL_INTERLEAVE shouldn't happen, so fall through to BUG() instead of break to return. I also fixed the comment. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 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>
* mempolicy: remove redundant codeBob Liu2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. In funtion is_valid_nodemask(), varibable k will be inited to 0 in the following loop, needn't init to policy_zone anymore. 2. (MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES) has already defined to MPOL_MODE_FLAGS in mempolicy.h. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: 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: remove return value of putback_lru_pages()Minchan Kim2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | putback_lru_page() never can fail. So it doesn't matter count of "the number of pages put back". In addition, users of this functions don't use return value. Let's remove unnecessary code. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-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>
* shmem: remove redundant codeHuang Shijie2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | prep_new_page() will call set_page_private(page, 0) to initialise the page, so the code is redundant. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: 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>
* sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high tooYinghai Lu2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to put mem_map high when virtual memmap is not used. before this patch free mem pfn range on first node: [ 0.000000] 19 - 1f [ 0.000000] 28 40 - 80 95 [ 0.000000] 702 740 - 1000 1000 [ 0.000000] 347c - 347e [ 0.000000] 34e7 3500 - 3b80 3b8b [ 0.000000] 73b8b 73bc0 - 73c00 73c00 [ 0.000000] 73ddd - 73e00 [ 0.000000] 73fdd - 74000 [ 0.000000] 741dd - 74200 [ 0.000000] 743dd - 74400 [ 0.000000] 745dd - 74600 [ 0.000000] 747dd - 74800 [ 0.000000] 749dd - 74a00 [ 0.000000] 74bdd - 74c00 [ 0.000000] 74ddd - 74e00 [ 0.000000] 74fdd - 75000 [ 0.000000] 751dd - 75200 [ 0.000000] 753dd - 75400 [ 0.000000] 755dd - 75600 [ 0.000000] 757dd - 75800 [ 0.000000] 759dd - 75a00 [ 0.000000] 79bdd 79c00 - 7d540 7d550 [ 0.000000] 7f745 - 7f750 [ 0.000000] 10000b 100040 - 2080000 2080000 so only 79c00 - 7d540 are major free block under 4g... after this patch, we will get [ 0.000000] 19 - 1f [ 0.000000] 28 40 - 80 95 [ 0.000000] 702 740 - 1000 1000 [ 0.000000] 347c - 347e [ 0.000000] 34e7 3500 - 3600 3600 [ 0.000000] 37dd - 3800 [ 0.000000] 39dd - 3a00 [ 0.000000] 3bdd - 3c00 [ 0.000000] 3ddd - 3e00 [ 0.000000] 3fdd - 4000 [ 0.000000] 41dd - 4200 [ 0.000000] 43dd - 4400 [ 0.000000] 45dd - 4600 [ 0.000000] 47dd - 4800 [ 0.000000] 49dd - 4a00 [ 0.000000] 4bdd - 4c00 [ 0.000000] 4ddd - 4e00 [ 0.000000] 4fdd - 5000 [ 0.000000] 51dd - 5200 [ 0.000000] 53dd - 5400 [ 0.000000] 95dd 9600 - 7d540 7d550 [ 0.000000] 7f745 - 7f750 [ 0.000000] 17000b 170040 - 2080000 2080000 we will have 9600 - 7d540 for major free block... sparse-vmemmap path already used __alloc_bootmem_node_high() Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* page allocator: reduce fragmentation in buddy allocator by adding buddies ↵Corrado Zoccolo2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | that are merging to the tail of the free lists In order to reduce fragmentation, this patch classifies freed pages in two groups according to their probability of being part of a high order merge. Pages belonging to a compound whose next-highest buddy is free are more likely to be part of a high order merge in the near future, so they will be added at the tail of the freelist. The remaining pages are put at the front of the freelist. In this way, the pages that are more likely to cause a big merge are kept free longer. Consequently there is a tendency to aggregate the long-living allocations on a subset of the compounds, reducing the fragmentation. This heuristic was tested on three machines, x86, x86-64 and ppc64 with 3GB of RAM in each machine. The tests were kernbench, netperf, sysbench and STREAM for performance and a high-order stress test for huge page allocations. KernBench X86 Elapsed mean 374.77 ( 0.00%) 375.10 (-0.09%) User mean 649.53 ( 0.00%) 650.44 (-0.14%) System mean 54.75 ( 0.00%) 54.18 ( 1.05%) CPU mean 187.75 ( 0.00%) 187.25 ( 0.27%) KernBench X86-64 Elapsed mean 94.45 ( 0.00%) 94.01 ( 0.47%) User mean 323.27 ( 0.00%) 322.66 ( 0.19%) System mean 36.71 ( 0.00%) 36.50 ( 0.57%) CPU mean 380.75 ( 0.00%) 381.75 (-0.26%) KernBench PPC64 Elapsed mean 173.45 ( 0.00%) 173.74 (-0.17%) User mean 587.99 ( 0.00%) 587.95 ( 0.01%) System mean 60.60 ( 0.00%) 60.57 ( 0.05%) CPU mean 373.50 ( 0.00%) 372.75 ( 0.20%) Nothing notable for kernbench. NetPerf UDP X86 64 42.68 ( 0.00%) 42.77 ( 0.21%) 128 85.62 ( 0.00%) 85.32 (-0.35%) 256 170.01 ( 0.00%) 168.76 (-0.74%) 1024 655.68 ( 0.00%) 652.33 (-0.51%) 2048 1262.39 ( 0.00%) 1248.61 (-1.10%) 3312 1958.41 ( 0.00%) 1944.61 (-0.71%) 4096 2345.63 ( 0.00%) 2318.83 (-1.16%) 8192 4132.90 ( 0.00%) 4089.50 (-1.06%) 16384 6770.88 ( 0.00%) 6642.05 (-1.94%)* NetPerf UDP X86-64 64 148.82 ( 0.00%) 154.92 ( 3.94%) 128 298.96 ( 0.00%) 312.95 ( 4.47%) 256 583.67 ( 0.00%) 626.39 ( 6.82%) 1024 2293.18 ( 0.00%) 2371.10 ( 3.29%) 2048 4274.16 ( 0.00%) 4396.83 ( 2.79%) 3312 6356.94 ( 0.00%) 6571.35 ( 3.26%) 4096 7422.68 ( 0.00%) 7635.42 ( 2.79%)* 8192 12114.81 ( 0.00%)* 12346.88 ( 1.88%) 16384 17022.28 ( 0.00%)* 17033.19 ( 0.06%)* 1.64% 2.73% NetPerf UDP PPC64 64 49.98 ( 0.00%) 50.25 ( 0.54%) 128 98.66 ( 0.00%) 100.95 ( 2.27%) 256 197.33 ( 0.00%) 191.03 (-3.30%) 1024 761.98 ( 0.00%) 785.07 ( 2.94%) 2048 1493.50 ( 0.00%) 1510.85 ( 1.15%) 3312 2303.95 ( 0.00%) 2271.72 (-1.42%) 4096 2774.56 ( 0.00%) 2773.06 (-0.05%) 8192 4918.31 ( 0.00%) 4793.59 (-2.60%) 16384 7497.98 ( 0.00%) 7749.52 ( 3.25%) The tests are run to have confidence limits within 1%. Results marked with a * were not confident although in this case, it's only outside by small amounts. Even with some results that were not confident, the netperf UDP results were generally positive. NetPerf TCP X86 64 652.25 ( 0.00%)* 648.12 (-0.64%)* 23.80% 22.82% 128 1229.98 ( 0.00%)* 1220.56 (-0.77%)* 21.03% 18.90% 256 2105.88 ( 0.00%) 1872.03 (-12.49%)* 1.00% 16.46% 1024 3476.46 ( 0.00%)* 3548.28 ( 2.02%)* 13.37% 11.39% 2048 4023.44 ( 0.00%)* 4231.45 ( 4.92%)* 9.76% 12.48% 3312 4348.88 ( 0.00%)* 4396.96 ( 1.09%)* 6.49% 8.75% 4096 4726.56 ( 0.00%)* 4877.71 ( 3.10%)* 9.85% 8.50% 8192 4732.28 ( 0.00%)* 5777.77 (18.10%)* 9.13% 13.04% 16384 5543.05 ( 0.00%)* 5906.24 ( 6.15%)* 7.73% 8.68% NETPERF TCP X86-64 netperf-tcp-vanilla-netperf netperf-tcp tcp-vanilla pgalloc-delay 64 1895.87 ( 0.00%)* 1775.07 (-6.81%)* 5.79% 4.78% 128 3571.03 ( 0.00%)* 3342.20 (-6.85%)* 3.68% 6.06% 256 5097.21 ( 0.00%)* 4859.43 (-4.89%)* 3.02% 2.10% 1024 8919.10 ( 0.00%)* 8892.49 (-0.30%)* 5.89% 6.55% 2048 10255.46 ( 0.00%)* 10449.39 ( 1.86%)* 7.08% 7.44% 3312 10839.90 ( 0.00%)* 10740.15 (-0.93%)* 6.87% 7.33% 4096 10814.84 ( 0.00%)* 10766.97 (-0.44%)* 6.86% 8.18% 8192 11606.89 ( 0.00%)* 11189.28 (-3.73%)* 7.49% 5.55% 16384 12554.88 ( 0.00%)* 12361.22 (-1.57%)* 7.36% 6.49% NETPERF TCP PPC64 netperf-tcp-vanilla-netperf netperf-tcp tcp-vanilla pgalloc-delay 64 594.17 ( 0.00%) 596.04 ( 0.31%)* 1.00% 2.29% 128 1064.87 ( 0.00%)* 1074.77 ( 0.92%)* 1.30% 1.40% 256 1852.46 ( 0.00%)* 1856.95 ( 0.24%) 1.25% 1.00% 1024 3839.46 ( 0.00%)* 3813.05 (-0.69%) 1.02% 1.00% 2048 4885.04 ( 0.00%)* 4881.97 (-0.06%)* 1.15% 1.04% 3312 5506.90 ( 0.00%) 5459.72 (-0.86%) 4096 6449.19 ( 0.00%) 6345.46 (-1.63%) 8192 7501.17 ( 0.00%) 7508.79 ( 0.10%) 16384 9618.65 ( 0.00%) 9490.10 (-1.35%) There was a distinct lack of confidence in the X86* figures so I included what the devation was where the results were not confident. Many of the results, whether gains or losses were within the standard deviation so no solid conclusion can be reached on performance impact. Looking at the figures, only the X86-64 ones look suspicious with a few losses that were outside the noise. However, the results were so unstable that without knowing why they vary so much, a solid conclusion cannot be reached. SYSBENCH X86 sysbench-vanilla pgalloc-delay 1 7722.85 ( 0.00%) 7756.79 ( 0.44%) 2 14901.11 ( 0.00%) 13683.44 (-8.90%) 3 15171.71 ( 0.00%) 14888.25 (-1.90%) 4 14966.98 ( 0.00%) 15029.67 ( 0.42%) 5 14370.47 ( 0.00%) 14865.00 ( 3.33%) 6 14870.33 ( 0.00%) 14845.57 (-0.17%) 7 14429.45 ( 0.00%) 14520.85 ( 0.63%) 8 14354.35 ( 0.00%) 14362.31 ( 0.06%) SYSBENCH X86-64 1 17448.70 ( 0.00%) 17484.41 ( 0.20%) 2 34276.39 ( 0.00%) 34251.00 (-0.07%) 3 50805.25 ( 0.00%) 50854.80 ( 0.10%) 4 66667.10 ( 0.00%) 66174.69 (-0.74%) 5 66003.91 ( 0.00%) 65685.25 (-0.49%) 6 64981.90 ( 0.00%) 65125.60 ( 0.22%) 7 64933.16 ( 0.00%) 64379.23 (-0.86%) 8 63353.30 ( 0.00%) 63281.22 (-0.11%) 9 63511.84 ( 0.00%) 63570.37 ( 0.09%) 10 62708.27 ( 0.00%) 63166.25 ( 0.73%) 11 62092.81 ( 0.00%) 61787.75 (-0.49%) 12 61330.11 ( 0.00%) 61036.34 (-0.48%) 13 61438.37 ( 0.00%) 61994.47 ( 0.90%) 14 62304.48 ( 0.00%) 62064.90 (-0.39%) 15 63296.48 ( 0.00%) 62875.16 (-0.67%) 16 63951.76 ( 0.00%) 63769.09 (-0.29%) SYSBENCH PPC64 -sysbench-pgalloc-delay-sysbench sysbench-vanilla pgalloc-delay 1 7645.08 ( 0.00%) 7467.43 (-2.38%) 2 14856.67 ( 0.00%) 14558.73 (-2.05%) 3 21952.31 ( 0.00%) 21683.64 (-1.24%) 4 27946.09 ( 0.00%) 28623.29 ( 2.37%) 5 28045.11 ( 0.00%) 28143.69 ( 0.35%) 6 27477.10 ( 0.00%) 27337.45 (-0.51%) 7 26489.17 ( 0.00%) 26590.06 ( 0.38%) 8 26642.91 ( 0.00%) 25274.33 (-5.41%) 9 25137.27 ( 0.00%) 24810.06 (-1.32%) 10 24451.99 ( 0.00%) 24275.85 (-0.73%) 11 23262.20 ( 0.00%) 23674.88 ( 1.74%) 12 24234.81 ( 0.00%) 23640.89 (-2.51%) 13 24577.75 ( 0.00%) 24433.50 (-0.59%) 14 25640.19 ( 0.00%) 25116.52 (-2.08%) 15 26188.84 ( 0.00%) 26181.36 (-0.03%) 16 26782.37 ( 0.00%) 26255.99 (-2.00%) Again, there is little to conclude here. While there are a few losses, the results vary by +/- 8% in some cases. They are the results of most concern as there are some large losses but it's also within the variance typically seen between kernel releases. The STREAM results varied so little and are so verbose that I didn't include them here. The final test stressed how many huge pages can be allocated. The absolute number of huge pages allocated are the same with or without the page. However, the "unusability free space index" which is a measure of external fragmentation was slightly lower (lower is better) throughout the lifetime of the system. I also measured the latency of how long it took to successfully allocate a huge page. The latency was slightly lower and on X86 and PPC64, more huge pages were allocated almost immediately from the free lists. The improvement is slight but there. [mel@csn.ul.ie: Tested, reworked for less branches] [czoccolo@gmail.com: fix oops by checking pfn_valid_within()] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tmpfs: insert tmpfs cache pages to inactive list at firstKOSAKI Motohiro2010-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Shaohua Li reported parallel file copy on tmpfs can lead to OOM killer. This is regression of caused by commit 9ff473b9a7 ("vmscan: evict streaming IO first"). Wow, It is 2 years old patch! Currently, tmpfs file cache is inserted active list at first. This means that the insertion doesn't only increase numbers of pages in anon LRU, but it also reduces anon scanning ratio. Therefore, vmscan will get totally confused. It scans almost only file LRU even though the system has plenty unused tmpfs pages. Historically, lru_cache_add_active_anon() was used for two reasons. 1) Intend to priotize shmem page rather than regular file cache. 2) Intend to avoid reclaim priority inversion of used once pages. But we've lost both motivation because (1) Now we have separate anon and file LRU list. then, to insert active list doesn't help such priotize. (2) In past, one pte access bit will cause page activation. then to insert inactive list with pte access bit mean higher priority than to insert active list. Its priority inversion may lead to uninteded lru chun. but it was already solved by commit 645747462 (vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once). (Thanks Hannes, you are great!) Thus, now we can use lru_cache_add_anon() instead. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
*-------. Merge branches 'slab/align', 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/fixes', 'slab/memhotadd' ↵Pekka Enberg2010-05-22
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and 'slub/fixes' into slab-for-linus
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