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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compaction.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 62 |
4 files changed, 88 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 6c7d18c53f8..56dd29b97a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c. Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - block_dump +- compact_memory - dirty_background_bytes - dirty_background_ratio - dirty_bytes @@ -64,6 +65,15 @@ information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt. ============================================================== +compact_memory + +Available only when CONFIG_COMPACTION is set. When 1 is written to the file, +all zones are compacted such that free memory is available in contiguous +blocks where possible. This can be important for example in the allocation of +huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required. + +============================================================== + dirty_background_bytes Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h index 465ca88615e..572388880ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/compaction.h +++ b/include/linux/compaction.h @@ -6,4 +6,10 @@ #define COMPACT_PARTIAL 1 #define COMPACT_COMPLETE 2 +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION +extern int sysctl_compact_memory; +extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos); +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */ + #endif /* _LINUX_COMPACTION_H */ diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 4c93486b45d..284f330d6a0 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ #include <linux/highuid.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> +#include <linux/compaction.h> #include <linux/hugetlb.h> #include <linux/initrd.h> #include <linux/key.h> @@ -1121,6 +1122,15 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = drop_caches_sysctl_handler, }, +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION + { + .procname = "compact_memory", + .data = &sysctl_compact_memory, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0200, + .proc_handler = sysctl_compaction_handler, + }, +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */ { .procname = "min_free_kbytes", .data = &min_free_kbytes, diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index be1ff3f7552..77854fbc0f5 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/compaction.h> #include <linux/mm_inline.h> #include <linux/backing-dev.h> +#include <linux/sysctl.h> #include "internal.h" /* @@ -391,3 +392,64 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc) return ret; } + +/* Compact all zones within a node */ +static int compact_node(int nid) +{ + int zoneid; + pg_data_t *pgdat; + struct zone *zone; + + if (nid < 0 || nid >= nr_node_ids || !node_online(nid)) + return -EINVAL; + pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); + + /* Flush pending updates to the LRU lists */ + lru_add_drain_all(); + + for (zoneid = 0; zoneid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zoneid++) { + struct compact_control cc = { + .nr_freepages = 0, + .nr_migratepages = 0, + }; + + zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zoneid]; + if (!populated_zone(zone)) + continue; + + cc.zone = zone; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.freepages); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages); + + compact_zone(zone, &cc); + + VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.freepages)); + VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.migratepages)); + } + + return 0; +} + +/* Compact all nodes in the system */ +static int compact_nodes(void) +{ + int nid; + + for_each_online_node(nid) + compact_node(nid); + + return COMPACT_COMPLETE; +} + +/* The written value is actually unused, all memory is compacted */ +int sysctl_compact_memory; + +/* This is the entry point for compacting all nodes via /proc/sys/vm */ +int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) +{ + if (write) + return compact_nodes(); + + return 0; +} |