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2011-11-02Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two)Linus Torvalds7-546/+641
Says Andrew: "60 patches. That's good enough for -rc1 I guess. I have quite a lot of detritus to be rechecked, work through maintainers, etc. - most of the remains of MM - rtc - various misc - cgroups - memcg - cpusets - procfs - ipc - rapidio - sysctl - pps - w1 - drivers/misc - aio" * akpm: (60 commits) memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock aio: allocate kiocbs in batches drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop w1: disable irqs in critical section drivers/w1/w1_int.c: multiple masters used same init_name drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: fix deadlock upon insertion and removal drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: add a nolock function to w1 interface drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: create central point for calling w1 interface w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get() to get it pps gpio client: add missing dependency pps: new client driver using GPIO pps: default echo function include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent() sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n sysctl: add support for poll() RapidIO: documentation update drivers/net/rionet.c: fix ethernet address macros for LE platforms RapidIO: fix potential null deref in rio_setup_device() RapidIO: add mport driver for Tsi721 bridge ...
2011-11-02mm/page_cgroup.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten1-1/+1
warning: symbol 'swap_cgroup_ctrl' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: Fix race condition in memcg_check_events() with this_cpu usageSteven Rostedt1-4/+6
Various code in memcontrol.c () calls this_cpu_read() on the calculations to be done from two different percpu variables, or does an open-coded read-modify-write on a single percpu variable. Disable preemption throughout these operations so that the writes go to the correct palces. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: added this_cpu to __this_cpu conversion] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: close race between charge and putbackJohannes Weiner1-1/+20
There is a potential race between a thread charging a page and another thread putting it back to the LRU list: charge: putback: SetPageCgroupUsed SetPageLRU PageLRU && add to memcg LRU PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU The order of setting one flag and checking the other is crucial, otherwise the charge may observe !PageLRU while the putback observes !PageCgroupUsed and the page is not linked to the memcg LRU at all. Global memory pressure may fix this by trying to isolate and putback the page for reclaim, where that putback would link it to the memcg LRU again. Without that, the memory cgroup is undeletable due to a charge whose physical page can not be found and moved out. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: skip scanning active lists based on individual sizeJohannes Weiner2-36/+19
Reclaim decides to skip scanning an active list when the corresponding inactive list is above a certain size in comparison to leave the assumed working set alone while there are still enough reclaim candidates around. The memcg implementation of comparing those lists instead reports whether the whole memcg is low on the requested type of inactive pages, considering all nodes and zones. This can lead to an oversized active list not being scanned because of the state of the other lists in the memcg, as well as an active list being scanned while its corresponding inactive list has enough pages. Not only is this wrong, it's also a scalability hazard, because the global memory state over all nodes and zones has to be gathered for each memcg and zone scanned. Make these calculations purely based on the size of the two LRU lists that are actually affected by the outcome of the decision. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: do not expose uninitialized mem_cgroup_per_node to worldIgor Mammedov1-1/+1
If somebody is touching data too early, it might be easier to diagnose a problem when dereferencing NULL at mem->info.nodeinfo[node] than trying to understand why mem_cgroup_per_zone is [un|partly]initialized. Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> 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>
2011-11-02memcg: fix oom schedule_timeout()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-1/+1
Before calling schedule_timeout(), task state should be changed. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: rename mem variable to memcgRaghavendra K T1-463/+467
The memcg code sometimes uses "struct mem_cgroup *mem" and sometimes uses "struct mem_cgroup *memcg". Rename all mem variables to memcg in source file. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02cgroup/kmemleak: Annotate alloc_page() for cgroup allocationsSteven Rostedt1-2/+5
When the cgroup base was allocated with kmalloc, it was necessary to annotate the variable with kmemleak_not_leak(). But because it has recently been changed to be allocated with alloc_page() (which skips kmemleak checks) causes a warning on boot up. I was triggering this output: allocated 8388608 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xf5840000 as Grey Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-test #12 Call Trace: [<c17e34e6>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f^M [<c10e2941>] paint_ptr+0x4f/0x78 [<c178ab57>] kmemleak_not_leak+0x58/0x7d [<c108ae9f>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x9/0x7d [<c1cdb462>] kmemleak_init+0x19d/0x1e9 [<c1cbf771>] start_kernel+0x346/0x3ec [<c1cbf1b4>] ? loglevel+0x18/0x18 [<c1cbf0aa>] i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb0 After a bit of debugging I tracked the object 0xf840000 (and others) down to the cgroup code. The change from allocating base with kmalloc to alloc_page() has the base not calling kmemleak_alloc() which adds the pointer to the object_tree_root, but kmemleak_not_leak() adds it to the crt_early_log[] table. On kmemleak_init(), the entry is found in the early_log[] but not the object_tree_root, and this error message is displayed. If alloc_page() fails then it defaults back to vmalloc() which still uses the kmemleak_alloc() which makes us still need the kmemleak_not_leak() call. The solution is to call the kmemleak_alloc() directly if the alloc_page() succeeds. Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02mm: thp: tail page refcounting fixAndrea Arcangeli4-42/+126
Michel while working on the working set estimation code, noticed that calling get_page_unless_zero() on a random pfn_to_page(random_pfn) wasn't safe, if the pfn ended up being a tail page of a transparent hugepage under splitting by __split_huge_page_refcount(). He then found the problem could also theoretically materialize with page_cache_get_speculative() during the speculative radix tree lookups that uses get_page_unless_zero() in SMP if the radix tree page is freed and reallocated and get_user_pages is called on it before page_cache_get_speculative has a chance to call get_page_unless_zero(). So the best way to fix the problem is to keep page_tail->_count zero at all times. This will guarantee that get_page_unless_zero() can never succeed on any tail page. page_tail->_mapcount is guaranteed zero and is unused for all tail pages of a compound page, so we can simply account the tail page references there and transfer them to tail_page->_count in __split_huge_page_refcount() (in addition to the head_page->_mapcount). While debugging this s/_count/_mapcount/ change I also noticed get_page is called by direct-io.c on pages returned by get_user_pages. That wasn't entirely safe because the two atomic_inc in get_page weren't atomic. As opposed to other get_user_page users like secondary-MMU page fault to establish the shadow pagetables would never call any superflous get_page after get_user_page returns. It's safer to make get_page universally safe for tail pages and to use get_page_foll() within follow_page (inside get_user_pages()). get_page_foll() is safe to do the refcounting for tail pages without taking any locks because it is run within PT lock protected critical sections (PT lock for pte and page_table_lock for pmd_trans_huge). The standard get_page() as invoked by direct-io instead will now take the compound_lock but still only for tail pages. The direct-io paths are usually I/O bound and the compound_lock is per THP so very finegrined, so there's no risk of scalability issues with it. A simple direct-io benchmarks with all lockdep prove locking and spinlock debugging infrastructure enabled shows identical performance and no overhead. So it's worth it. Ideally direct-io should stop calling get_page() on pages returned by get_user_pages(). The spinlock in get_page() is already optimized away for no-THP builds but doing get_page() on tail pages returned by GUP is generally a rare operation and usually only run in I/O paths. This new refcounting on page_tail->_mapcount in addition to avoiding new RCU critical sections will also allow the working set estimation code to work without any further complexity associated to the tail page refcounting with THP. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02filesystems: add missing nlink wrappersMiklos Szeredi1-1/+1
Replace direct i_nlink updates with the respective updater function (inc_nlink, drop_nlink, clear_nlink, inode_dec_link_count). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-10-31mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_statDimitri Sivanich1-1/+1
Avoid false sharing of the vm_stat array. This was found to adversely affect tmpfs I/O performance. Tests run on a 640 cpu UV system. With 120 threads doing parallel writes, each to different tmpfs mounts: No patch: ~300 MB/sec With vm_stat alignment: ~430 MB/sec Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> 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>
2011-10-31mm: munlock use mapcount to avoid terrible overheadHugh Dickins1-1/+9
A process spent 30 minutes exiting, just munlocking the pages of a large anonymous area that had been alternately mprotected into page-sized vmas: for every single page there's an anon_vma walk through all the other little vmas to find the right one. A general fix to that would be a lot more complicated (use prio_tree on anon_vma?), but there's one very simple thing we can do to speed up the common case: if a page to be munlocked is mapped only once, then it is our vma that it is mapped into, and there's no need whatever to walk through all the others. Okay, there is a very remote race in munlock_vma_pages_range(), if between its follow_page() and lock_page(), another process were to munlock the same page, then page reclaim remove it from our vma, then another process mlock it again. We would find it with page_mapcount 1, yet it's still mlocked in another process. But never mind, that's much less likely than the down_read_trylock() failure which munlocking already tolerates (in try_to_unmap_one()): in due course page reclaim will discover and move the page to unevictable instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/huge_memory: fix typo when updating mmu cacheHillf Danton1-1/+1
There are three cases of update_mmu_cache() in the file, and the case in function collapse_huge_page() has a typo, namely the last parameter used, which is corrected based on the other two cases. Due to the define of update_mmu_cache by X86, the only arch that implements THP currently, the change here has no really crystal point, but one or two minutes of efforts could be saved for those archs that are likely to support THP in future. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/huge_memory: fix copying user highpageHillf Danton1-1/+1
The THP copy-on-write handler falls back to regular-sized pages for a huge page replacement upon allocation failure or if THP has been individually disabled in the target VMA. The loop responsible for copying page-sized chunks accidentally uses multiples of PAGE_SHIFT instead of PAGE_SIZE as the virtual address arg for copy_user_highpage(). Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: do not drain pagevecs for mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)Christoph Lameter1-1/+2
MCL_FUTURE does not move pages between lru list and draining the LRU per cpu pagevecs is a nasty activity. Avoid doing it unecessarily. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceedMel Gorman1-11/+21
If compaction can proceed, shrink_zones() stops doing any work but its callers still call shrink_slab() which raises the priority and potentially sleeps. This is unnecessary and wasteful so this patch aborts direct reclaim/compaction entirely if compaction can proceed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@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>
2011-10-31vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocationsRik van Riel1-0/+16
When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages, THP page faults will repeatedly try to compact memory. Due to the unfreeable pages, compaction fails. Needless to say, at that point page reclaim also fails to create free contiguous 2MB areas. However, that doesn't stop the current code from trying, over and over again, and freeing a minimum of 4MB (2UL << sc->order pages) at every single invocation. This resulted in my 12GB system having 2-3GB free memory, a corresponding amount of used swap and very sluggish response times. This can be avoided by having the direct reclaim code not reclaim from zones that already have plenty of free memory available for compaction. If compaction still fails due to unmovable memory, doing additional reclaim will only hurt the system, not help. [jweiner@redhat.com: change comment to explain the order check] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31vmscan: add barrier to prevent evictable page in unevictable listMinchan Kim2-5/+12
When a race between putback_lru_page() and shmem_lock with lock=0 happens, progrom execution order is as follows, but clear_bit in processor #1 could be reordered right before spin_unlock of processor #1. Then, the page would be stranded on the unevictable list. spin_lock SetPageLRU spin_unlock clear_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) spin_lock if PageLRU() if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) move evictable list smp_mb if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) move evictable list spin_unlock But, pagevec_lookup() in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() has rcu_read_[un]lock() so it could protect reordering before reaching test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) on processor #1 so this problem never happens. But it's a unexpected side effect and we should solve this problem properly. This patch adds a barrier after mapping_clear_unevictable. I didn't meet this problem but just found during review. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/huge_memory.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten1-1/+4
Quiet the sparse noise: warning: symbol 'khugepaged_scan' was not declared. Should it be static? warning: context imbalance in 'khugepaged_scan_mm_slot' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@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>
2011-10-31mm/mempolicy.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten1-1/+1
Quiet the spares noise: warning: symbol 'default_policy' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> 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>
2011-10-31mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten1-1/+1
Quiet the following sparse noise: warning: symbol 'swap_token_memcg' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2011-10-31mm/memblock.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten1-1/+2
Quiet the following sparse noise in this file: warning: symbol 'memblock_overlaps_region' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers,com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: disable user interface to manually rescue unevictable pagesJohannes Weiner1-76/+8
At one point, anonymous pages were supposed to go on the unevictable list when no swap space was configured, and the idea was to manually rescue those pages after adding swap and making them evictable again. But nowadays, swap-backed pages on the anon LRU list are not scanned without available swap space anyway, so there is no point in moving them to a separate list anymore. The manual rescue could also be used in case pages were stranded on the unevictable list due to race conditions. But the code has been around for a while now and newly discovered bugs should be properly reported and dealt with instead of relying on such a manual fixup. In addition to the lack of a usecase, the sysfs interface to rescue pages from a specific NUMA node has been broken since its introduction, so it's unlikely that anybody ever relied on that. This patch removes the functionality behind the sysctl and the node-interface and emits a one-time warning when somebody tries to access either of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reported-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31vmscan.c: fix invalid strict_strtoul() check in write_scan_unevictable_node()Kautuk Consul1-2/+2
write_scan_unevictable_node() checks the value req returned by strict_strtoul() and returns 1 if req is 0. However, when strict_strtoul() returns 0, it means successful conversion of buf to unsigned long. Due to this, the function was not proceeding to scan the zones for unevictable pages even though we write a valid value to the scan_unevictable_pages sys file. Change this check slightly to check for invalid value in buf as well as 0 value stored in res after successful conversion via strict_strtoul. In both cases, we do not perform the scanning of this node's zones. Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@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>
2011-10-31mm: fix kunmap_high() commentLi Haifeng1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Li Haifeng <omycle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: compaction: make compact_zone_order() staticKyungmin Park1-1/+1
There's no compact_zone_order() user outside file scope, so make it static. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31HWPOISON: convert pr_debug()s to pr_info()sDean Nelson1-6/+6
Commit fb46e73520940b ("HWPOISON: Convert pr_debugs to pr_info) authored by Andi Kleen converted a number of pr_debug()s to pr_info()s. About the same time additional code with pr_debug()s was added by two other commits 8c6c2ecb4466 ("HWPOSION, hugetlb: recover from free hugepage error when !MF_COUNT_INCREASED") and d950b95882f3d ("HWPOISON, hugetlb: soft offlining for hugepage"). And these pr_debug()s failed to get converted to pr_info()s. This patch converts them as well. And does some minor related whitespace cleanup. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/mmap.c: eliminate the ret variable from mm_take_all_locks()Kautuk Consul1-6/+3
The ret variable is really not needed in mm_take_all_locks(). Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm-add-comment-explaining-task-state-setting-in-bdi_forker_thread-fixAndrew Morton1-3/+2
fiddle wording Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> 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>
2011-10-31ksm: fix the comment of try_to_unmap_one()Wanlong Gao1-1/+1
try_to_unmap_one() is called by try_to_unmap_ksm(), too. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.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>
2011-10-31mm/vmalloc.c: report more vmalloc failuresJoe Perches1-3/+8
Some vmalloc failure paths do not report OOM conditions. Add warn_alloc_failed, which also does a dump_stack, to those failure paths. This allows more site specific vmalloc failure logging message printks to be removed. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleepingAlex,Shi1-0/+2
There 2 places to read pgdat in kswapd. One is return from a successful balance, another is waked up from kswapd sleeping. The new_order and new_classzone_idx represent the balance input order and classzone_idx. But current new_order and new_classzone_idx are not assigned after kswapd_try_to_sleep(), that will cause a bug in the following scenario. 1: after a successful balance, kswapd goes to sleep, and new_order = 0; new_classzone_idx = __MAX_NR_ZONES - 1; 2: kswapd waked up with order = 3 and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL 3: in the balance_pgdat() running, a new balance wakeup happened with order = 5, and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL 4: the first wakeup(order = 3) finished successufly, return order = 3 but, the new_order is still 0, so, this balancing will be treated as a failed balance. And then the second tighter balancing will be missed. So, to avoid the above problem, the new_order and new_classzone_idx need to be assigned for later successful comparison. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/memblock.c: small function definition fixesJonghwan Choi1-1/+1
warning: function 'memblock_memory_can_coalesce' with external linkage has definition. Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancingAlex,Shi1-3/+11
In commit 215ddd66 ("mm: vmscan: only read new_classzone_idx from pgdat when reclaiming successfully") , Mel Gorman said kswapd is better to sleep after a unsuccessful balancing if there is tighter reclaim request pending in the balancing. But in the following scenario, kswapd do something that is not matched our expectation. The patch fixes this issue. 1, Read pgdat request A (classzone_idx, order = 3) 2, balance_pgdat() 3, During pgdat, a new pgdat request B (classzone_idx, order = 5) is placed 4, balance_pgdat() returns but failed since returned order = 0 5, pgdat of request A assigned to balance_pgdat(), and do balancing again. While the expectation behavior of kswapd should try to sleep. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2011-10-31debug-pagealloc: add support for highmem pagesAkinobu Mita1-34/+10
This adds support for highmem pages poisoning and verification to the debug-pagealloc feature for no-architecture support. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded preempt_disable/enable] 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>
2011-10-31mm: neaten warn_alloc_failedJoe Perches2-7/+13
Add __attribute__((format (printf...) to the function to validate format and arguments. Use vsprintf extension %pV to avoid any possible message interleaving. Coalesce format string. Convert printks/pr_warning to pr_warn. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use the __printf() macro] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31thp: mremap support and TLB optimizationAndrea Arcangeli2-4/+63
This adds THP support to mremap (decreases the number of split_huge_page() calls). Here are also some benchmarks with a proggy like this: === #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <sys/mman.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/time.h> #define SIZE (5UL*1024*1024*1024) int main() { static struct timeval oldstamp, newstamp; long diffsec; char *p, *p2, *p3, *p4; if (posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2*1024*1024, SIZE)) perror("memalign"), exit(1); if (posix_memalign((void **)&p2, 2*1024*1024, SIZE)) perror("memalign"), exit(1); if (posix_memalign((void **)&p3, 2*1024*1024, 4096)) perror("memalign"), exit(1); memset(p, 0xff, SIZE); memset(p2, 0xff, SIZE); memset(p3, 0x77, 4096); gettimeofday(&oldstamp, NULL); p4 = mremap(p, SIZE, SIZE, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p3); gettimeofday(&newstamp, NULL); diffsec = newstamp.tv_sec - oldstamp.tv_sec; diffsec = newstamp.tv_usec - oldstamp.tv_usec + 1000000 * diffsec; printf("usec %ld\n", diffsec); if (p == MAP_FAILED || p4 != p3) //if (p == MAP_FAILED) perror("mremap"), exit(1); if (memcmp(p4, p2, SIZE)) printf("mremap bug\n"), exit(1); printf("ok\n"); return 0; } === THP on Performance counter stats for './largepage13' (3 runs): 69195836 dTLB-loads ( +- 3.546% ) (scaled from 50.30%) 60708 dTLB-load-misses ( +- 11.776% ) (scaled from 52.62%) 676266476 dTLB-stores ( +- 5.654% ) (scaled from 69.54%) 29856 dTLB-store-misses ( +- 4.081% ) (scaled from 89.22%) 1055848782 iTLB-loads ( +- 4.526% ) (scaled from 80.18%) 8689 iTLB-load-misses ( +- 2.987% ) (scaled from 58.20%) 7.314454164 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.023% ) THP off Performance counter stats for './largepage13' (3 runs): 1967379311 dTLB-loads ( +- 0.506% ) (scaled from 60.59%) 9238687 dTLB-load-misses ( +- 22.547% ) (scaled from 61.87%) 2014239444 dTLB-stores ( +- 0.692% ) (scaled from 60.40%) 3312335 dTLB-store-misses ( +- 7.304% ) (scaled from 67.60%) 6764372065 iTLB-loads ( +- 0.925% ) (scaled from 79.00%) 8202 iTLB-load-misses ( +- 0.475% ) (scaled from 70.55%) 9.693655243 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.069% ) grep thp /proc/vmstat thp_fault_alloc 35849 thp_fault_fallback 0 thp_collapse_alloc 3 thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0 thp_split 0 thp_split 0 confirms no thp split despite plenty of hugepages allocated. The measurement of only the mremap time (so excluding the 3 long memset and final long 10GB memory accessing memcmp): THP on usec 14824 usec 14862 usec 14859 THP off usec 256416 usec 255981 usec 255847 With an older kernel without the mremap optimizations (the below patch optimizes the non THP version too). THP on usec 392107 usec 390237 usec 404124 THP off usec 444294 usec 445237 usec 445820 I guess with a threaded program that sends more IPI on large SMP it'd create an even larger difference. All debug options are off except DEBUG_VM to avoid skewing the results. The only problem for native 2M mremap like it happens above both the source and destination address must be 2M aligned or the hugepmd can't be moved without a split but that is an hardware limitation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style nitpicking] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
2011-10-31mremap: avoid sending one IPI per pageAndrea Arcangeli1-6/+9
This replaces ptep_clear_flush() with ptep_get_and_clear() and a single flush_tlb_range() at the end of the loop, to avoid sending one IPI for each page. The mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end section is enlarged accordingly but this is not going to fundamentally change things. It was more by accident that the region under mremap was for the most part still available for secondary MMUs: the primary MMU was never allowed to reliably access that region for the duration of the mremap (modulo trapping SIGSEGV on the old address range which sounds unpractical and flakey). If users wants secondary MMUs not to lose access to a large region under mremap they should reduce the mremap size accordingly in userland and run multiple calls. Overall this will run faster so it's actually going to reduce the time the region is under mremap for the primary MMU which should provide a net benefit to apps. For KVM this is a noop because the guest physical memory is never mremapped, there's just no point it ever moving it while guest runs. One target of this optimization is JVM GC (so unrelated to the mmu notifier logic). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
2011-10-31mremap: check for overflow using deltasAndrea Arcangeli1-2/+3
Using "- 1" relies on the old_end to be page aligned and PAGE_SIZE > 1, those are reasonable requirements but the check remains obscure and it looks more like an off by one error than an overflow check. This I feel will improve readability. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
2011-10-31memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbolSam Ravnborg1-0/+3
With the NO_BOOTMEM symbol added architectures may now use the following syntax to tell that they do not need bootmem: select NO_BOOTMEM This is much more convinient than adding a new kconfig symbol which was otherwise required. Adding this symbol does not conflict with the architctures that already define their own symbol. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31memblock: add memblock_start_of_DRAM()Sam Ravnborg1-0/+6
SPARC32 require access to the start address. Add a new helper memblock_start_of_DRAM() to give access to the address of the first memblock - which contains the lowest address. The awkward name was chosen to match the already present memblock_end_of_DRAM(). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: avoid null pointer access in vm_struct via /proc/vmallocinfoMitsuo Hayasaka1-17/+48
The /proc/vmallocinfo shows information about vmalloc allocations in vmlist that is a linklist of vm_struct. It, however, may access pages field of vm_struct where a page was not allocated. This results in a null pointer access and leads to a kernel panic. Why this happens: In __vmalloc_node_range() called from vmalloc(), newly allocated vm_struct is added to vmlist at __get_vm_area_node() and then, some fields of vm_struct such as nr_pages and pages are set at __vmalloc_area_node(). In other words, it is added to vmlist before it is fully initialized. At the same time, when the /proc/vmallocinfo is read, it accesses the pages field of vm_struct according to the nr_pages field at show_numa_info(). Thus, a null pointer access happens. The patch adds the newly allocated vm_struct to the vmlist *after* it is fully initialized. So, it can avoid accessing the pages field with unallocated page when show_numa_info() is called. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/debug-pagealloc.c: use memchr_invAkinobu Mita1-5/+3
Use newly introduced memchr_inv() for page verification. 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>
2011-10-31lib/string.c: introduce memchr_inv()Akinobu Mita1-45/+2
memchr_inv() is mainly used to check whether the whole buffer is filled with just a specified byte. The function name and prototype are stolen from logfs and the implementation is from SLUB. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/debug-pagealloc.c: use plain __ratelimit() instead of printk_ratelimit()Akinobu Mita1-1/+3
printk_ratelimit() should not be used, because it shares ratelimiting state with all other unrelated printk_ratelimit() callsites. 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>
2011-10-31vmscan: count pages into balanced for zone with good watermarkShaohua Li1-0/+2
It's possible a zone watermark is ok when entering the balance_pgdat() loop, while the zone is within the requested classzone_idx. Count pages from this zone into `balanced'. In this way, we can skip shrinking zones too much for high order allocation. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: vmscan: immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completesMel Gorman2-2/+10
When direct reclaim encounters a dirty page, it gets recycled around the LRU for another cycle. This patch marks the page PageReclaim similar to deactivate_page() so that the page gets reclaimed almost immediately after the page gets cleaned. This is to avoid reclaiming clean pages that are younger than a dirty page encountered at the end of the LRU that might have been something like a use-once page. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: vmscan: throttle reclaim if encountering too many dirty pages under ↵Mel Gorman1-3/+39
writeback Workloads that are allocating frequently and writing files place a large number of dirty pages on the LRU. With use-once logic, it is possible for them to reach the end of the LRU quickly requiring the reclaimer to scan more to find clean pages. Ordinarily, processes that are dirtying memory will get throttled by dirty balancing but this is a global heuristic and does not take into account that LRUs are maintained on a per-zone basis. This can lead to a situation whereby reclaim is scanning heavily, skipping over a large number of pages under writeback and recycling them around the LRU consuming CPU. This patch checks how many of the number of pages isolated from the LRU were dirty and under writeback. If a percentage of them under writeback, the process will be throttled if a backing device or the zone is congested. Note that this applies whether it is anonymous or file-backed pages that are under writeback meaning that swapping is potentially throttled. This is intentional due to the fact if the swap device is congested, scanning more pages and dispatching more IO is not going to help matters. The percentage that must be in writeback depends on the priority. At default priority, all of them must be dirty. At DEF_PRIORITY-1, 50% of them must be, DEF_PRIORITY-2, 25% etc. i.e. as pressure increases the greater the likelihood the process will get throttled to allow the flusher threads to make some progress. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in kswapd except in high priorityMel Gorman1-5/+8
It is preferable that no dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from the page reclaim path. At normal priorities, this patch prevents kswapd writing pages. However, page reclaim does have a requirement that pages be freed in a particular zone. If it is failing to make sufficient progress (reclaiming < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX at any priority priority), the priority is raised to scan more pages. A priority of DEF_PRIORITY - 3 is considered to be the point where kswapd is getting into trouble reclaiming pages. If this priority is reached, kswapd will dispatch pages for writing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>