linux/include
Nick Piggin b291f00039 mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable
Make sure that mlocked pages also live on the unevictable LRU, so kswapd
will not scan them over and over again.

This is achieved through various strategies:

1) add yet another page flag--PG_mlocked--to indicate that
   the page is locked for efficient testing in vmscan and,
   optionally, fault path.  This allows early culling of
   unevictable pages, preventing them from getting to
   page_referenced()/try_to_unmap().  Also allows separate
   accounting of mlock'd pages, as Nick's original patch
   did.

   Note:  Nick's original mlock patch used a PG_mlocked
   flag.  I had removed this in favor of the PG_unevictable
   flag + an mlock_count [new page struct member].  I
   restored the PG_mlocked flag to eliminate the new
   count field.

2) add the mlock/unevictable infrastructure to mm/mlock.c,
   with internal APIs in mm/internal.h.  This is a rework
   of Nick's original patch to these files, taking into
   account that mlocked pages are now kept on unevictable
   LRU list.

3) update vmscan.c:page_evictable() to check PageMlocked()
   and, if vma passed in, the vm_flags.  Note that the vma
   will only be passed in for new pages in the fault path;
   and then only if the "cull unevictable pages in fault
   path" patch is included.

4) add try_to_unlock() to rmap.c to walk a page's rmap and
   ClearPageMlocked() if no other vmas have it mlocked.
   Reuses as much of try_to_unmap() as possible.  This
   effectively replaces the use of one of the lru list links
   as an mlock count.  If this mechanism let's pages in mlocked
   vmas leak through w/o PG_mlocked set [I don't know that it
   does], we should catch them later in try_to_unmap().  One
   hopes this will be rare, as it will be relatively expensive.

Original mm/internal.h, mm/rmap.c and mm/mlock.c changes:
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

splitlru: introduce __get_user_pages():

  New munlock processing need to GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS.
  because current get_user_pages() can't grab PROT_NONE pages theresore it
  cause PROT_NONE pages can't munlock.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix this for pagemap-pass-mm-into-pagewalkers.patch]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: untangle patch interdependencies]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things after out-of-order merging]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix page-flags mess]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: fix munlock page table walk - now requires 'mm']
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix truncate race and sevaral comments]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: splitlru: introduce __get_user_pages()]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:30 -07:00
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acpi include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
asm-arm [ARM] S3C24XX: Additional include moves 2008-10-07 23:09:51 +01:00
asm-cris [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-frv FRV: Switch unaligned access to the packed-struct implementation 2008-10-16 15:06:54 -07:00
asm-generic Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
asm-h8300 h8300: update timer handler - new files 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-mn10300 [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-um [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
asm-x86 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm 2008-10-16 15:36:00 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] remove unused ibcs2/PER_SVR4 in SET_PERSONALITY 2008-10-16 15:40:05 +02:00
crypto crypto: rng - RNG interface and implementation 2008-08-29 15:50:04 +10:00
drm radeon: fix PCI bus mastering support enables. 2008-10-18 07:10:54 +10:00
keys
linux mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable 2008-10-20 08:52:30 -07:00
math-emu math-emu: Add support for reporting exact invalid exception 2008-09-16 10:01:37 -05:00
media V4L/DVB (9276): videobuf-dvb: two functions are now static 2008-10-17 17:39:14 -03:00
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-16 11:26:26 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: ioctl-internal definitions 2008-08-31 16:00:42 +02:00
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: return a descriptive error value during connection errors 2008-10-13 09:29:00 -04:00
sound Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2008-10-13 14:03:59 -07:00
video fbdev: allow more chip revisions in Epson s1d13... video driver 2008-10-16 11:21:45 -07:00
xen xen: remove unused balloon.h 2008-10-03 10:04:10 +02:00
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