linux/mm/internal.h
Lee Schermerhorn 894bc31041 Unevictable LRU Infrastructure
When the system contains lots of mlocked or otherwise unevictable pages,
the pageout code (kswapd) can spend lots of time scanning over these
pages.  Worse still, the presence of lots of unevictable pages can confuse
kswapd into thinking that more aggressive pageout modes are required,
resulting in all kinds of bad behaviour.

Infrastructure to manage pages excluded from reclaim--i.e., hidden from
vmscan.  Based on a patch by Larry Woodman of Red Hat.  Reworked to
maintain "unevictable" pages on a separate per-zone LRU list, to "hide"
them from vmscan.

Kosaki Motohiro added the support for the memory controller unevictable
lru list.

Pages on the unevictable list have both PG_unevictable and PG_lru set.
Thus, PG_unevictable is analogous to and mutually exclusive with
PG_active--it specifies which LRU list the page is on.

The unevictable infrastructure is enabled by a new mm Kconfig option
[CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU.

A new function 'page_evictable(page, vma)' in vmscan.c tests whether or
not a page may be evictable.  Subsequent patches will add the various
!evictable tests.  We'll want to keep these tests light-weight for use in
shrink_active_list() and, possibly, the fault path.

To avoid races between tasks putting pages [back] onto an LRU list and
tasks that might be moving the page from non-evictable to evictable state,
the new function 'putback_lru_page()' -- inverse to 'isolate_lru_page()'
-- tests the "evictability" of a page after placing it on the LRU, before
dropping the reference.  If the page has become unevictable,
putback_lru_page() will redo the 'putback', thus moving the page to the
unevictable list.  This way, we avoid "stranding" evictable pages on the
unevictable list.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout from out-of-order merge]
[riel@redhat.com: fix UNEVICTABLE_LRU and !PROC_PAGE_MONITOR build]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: remove redundant mapping check]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: unevictable-lru-infrastructure: putback_lru_page()/unevictable page handling rework]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: kill unnecessary lock_page() in vmscan.c]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert migration change of unevictable lru infrastructure]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert to unevictable-lru-infrastructure-kconfig-fix.patch]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: restore patch failure of vmstat-unevictable-and-mlocked-pages-vm-events.patch]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Debugged-by: Benjamin Kidwell <benjkidwell@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:26 -07:00

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/* internal.h: mm/ internal definitions
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
#ifndef __MM_INTERNAL_H
#define __MM_INTERNAL_H
#include <linux/mm.h>
void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *start_vma,
unsigned long floor, unsigned long ceiling);
extern void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order);
static inline void set_page_count(struct page *page, int v)
{
atomic_set(&page->_count, v);
}
/*
* Turn a non-refcounted page (->_count == 0) into refcounted with
* a count of one.
*/
static inline void set_page_refcounted(struct page *page)
{
VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count));
set_page_count(page, 1);
}
static inline void __put_page(struct page *page)
{
atomic_dec(&page->_count);
}
/*
* in mm/vmscan.c:
*/
extern int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page);
extern void putback_lru_page(struct page *page);
/*
* in mm/page_alloc.c
*/
extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
/*
* function for dealing with page's order in buddy system.
* zone->lock is already acquired when we use these.
* So, we don't need atomic page->flags operations here.
*/
static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page)
{
VM_BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page));
return page_private(page);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
/*
* unevictable_migrate_page() called only from migrate_page_copy() to
* migrate unevictable flag to new page.
* Note that the old page has been isolated from the LRU lists at this
* point so we don't need to worry about LRU statistics.
*/
static inline void unevictable_migrate_page(struct page *new, struct page *old)
{
if (TestClearPageUnevictable(old))
SetPageUnevictable(new);
}
#else
static inline void unevictable_migrate_page(struct page *new, struct page *old)
{
}
#endif
/*
* FLATMEM and DISCONTIGMEM configurations use alloc_bootmem_node,
* so all functions starting at paging_init should be marked __init
* in those cases. SPARSEMEM, however, allows for memory hotplug,
* and alloc_bootmem_node is not used.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
#define __paginginit __meminit
#else
#define __paginginit __init
#endif
/* Memory initialisation debug and verification */
enum mminit_level {
MMINIT_WARNING,
MMINIT_VERIFY,
MMINIT_TRACE
};
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
extern int mminit_loglevel;
#define mminit_dprintk(level, prefix, fmt, arg...) \
do { \
if (level < mminit_loglevel) { \
printk(level <= MMINIT_WARNING ? KERN_WARNING : KERN_DEBUG); \
printk(KERN_CONT "mminit::" prefix " " fmt, ##arg); \
} \
} while (0)
extern void mminit_verify_pageflags_layout(void);
extern void mminit_verify_page_links(struct page *page,
enum zone_type zone, unsigned long nid, unsigned long pfn);
extern void mminit_verify_zonelist(void);
#else
static inline void mminit_dprintk(enum mminit_level level,
const char *prefix, const char *fmt, ...)
{
}
static inline void mminit_verify_pageflags_layout(void)
{
}
static inline void mminit_verify_page_links(struct page *page,
enum zone_type zone, unsigned long nid, unsigned long pfn)
{
}
static inline void mminit_verify_zonelist(void)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT */
/* mminit_validate_memmodel_limits is independent of CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT */
#if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)
extern void mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(unsigned long *start_pfn,
unsigned long *end_pfn);
#else
static inline void mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(unsigned long *start_pfn,
unsigned long *end_pfn)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
#endif