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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2010-05-24 14:32:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-25 08:06:58 -0700
commit7f60c214fd3a360461f3286c6908084f7f8b1950 (patch)
treedba48cf988a22a40796187c7274f7903a288f7f4 /include/linux/rmap.h
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mm: migration: share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migration
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rmap.h50
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 567d43f29a1..77216742c17 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -26,11 +26,17 @@
*/
struct anon_vma {
spinlock_t lock; /* Serialize access to vma list */
-#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
- atomic_t ksm_refcount;
-#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
- atomic_t migrate_refcount;
+#if defined(CONFIG_KSM) || defined(CONFIG_MIGRATION)
+
+ /*
+ * The external_refcount is taken by either KSM or page migration
+ * to take a reference to an anon_vma when there is no
+ * guarantee that the vma of page tables will exist for
+ * the duration of the operation. A caller that takes
+ * the reference is responsible for clearing up the
+ * anon_vma if they are the last user on release
+ */
+ atomic_t external_refcount;
#endif
/*
* NOTE: the LSB of the head.next is set by
@@ -64,46 +70,26 @@ struct anon_vma_chain {
};
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
-static inline void ksm_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
+#if defined(CONFIG_KSM) || defined(CONFIG_MIGRATION)
+static inline void anonvma_external_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
- atomic_set(&anon_vma->ksm_refcount, 0);
+ atomic_set(&anon_vma->external_refcount, 0);
}
-static inline int ksm_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
+static inline int anonvma_external_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
- return atomic_read(&anon_vma->ksm_refcount);
+ return atomic_read(&anon_vma->external_refcount);
}
#else
-static inline void ksm_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
+static inline void anonvma_external_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
}
-static inline int ksm_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
+static inline int anonvma_external_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KSM */
-#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
-static inline void migrate_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
-{
- atomic_set(&anon_vma->migrate_refcount, 0);
-}
-
-static inline int migrate_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
-{
- return atomic_read(&anon_vma->migrate_refcount);
-}
-#else
-static inline void migrate_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
-{
-}
-
-static inline int migrate_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATE */
static inline struct anon_vma *page_anon_vma(struct page *page)
{