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authorLee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>2008-10-18 20:26:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-20 08:50:26 -0700
commit89e004ea55abe201b29e2d6e35124101f1288ef7 (patch)
tree272a8f453106fd33d66fd7153f44696648dbe8b6 /mm
parentba9ddf49391645e6bb93219131a40446538a5e76 (diff)
SHM_LOCKED pages are unevictable
Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms. Place them on the unevictable LRU list instead. Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared memory regions as unevictable. Then these pages will be culled off the normal LRU lists during vmscan. Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if shared memory segment is munlocked. Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now that they're no longer locked. If so, move them to the appropriate zone lru list. Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change] 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c89
2 files changed, 93 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index fc2ccf79a77..d38d7e61fcd 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1477,12 +1477,16 @@ int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct user_struct *user)
if (!user_shm_lock(inode->i_size, user))
goto out_nomem;
info->flags |= VM_LOCKED;
+ mapping_set_unevictable(file->f_mapping);
}
if (!lock && (info->flags & VM_LOCKED) && user) {
user_shm_unlock(inode->i_size, user);
info->flags &= ~VM_LOCKED;
+ mapping_clear_unevictable(file->f_mapping);
+ scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(file->f_mapping);
}
retval = 0;
+
out_nomem:
spin_unlock(&info->lock);
return retval;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 9babfbc1ddc..dfb342e0db9 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2346,4 +2346,93 @@ int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return 1;
}
+
+/**
+ * check_move_unevictable_page - check page for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
+ * @page: page to check evictability and move to appropriate lru list
+ * @zone: zone page is in
+ *
+ * Checks a page for evictability and moves the page to the appropriate
+ * zone lru list.
+ *
+ * Restrictions: zone->lru_lock must be held, page must be on LRU and must
+ * have PageUnevictable set.
+ */
+static void check_move_unevictable_page(struct page *page, struct zone *zone)
+{
+ VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page));
+
+retry:
+ ClearPageUnevictable(page);
+ if (page_evictable(page, NULL)) {
+ enum lru_list l = LRU_INACTIVE_ANON + page_is_file_cache(page);
+ __dec_zone_state(zone, NR_UNEVICTABLE);
+ list_move(&page->lru, &zone->lru[l].list);
+ __inc_zone_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON + l);
+ __count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * rotate unevictable list
+ */
+ SetPageUnevictable(page);
+ list_move(&page->lru, &zone->lru[LRU_UNEVICTABLE].list);
+ if (page_evictable(page, NULL))
+ goto retry;
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * scan_mapping_unevictable_pages - scan an address space for evictable pages
+ * @mapping: struct address_space to scan for evictable pages
+ *
+ * Scan all pages in mapping. Check unevictable pages for
+ * evictability and move them to the appropriate zone lru list.
+ */
+void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ pgoff_t next = 0;
+ pgoff_t end = (i_size_read(mapping->host) + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >>
+ PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ struct zone *zone;
+ struct pagevec pvec;
+
+ if (mapping->nrpages == 0)
+ return;
+
+ pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
+ while (next < end &&
+ pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, next, PAGEVEC_SIZE)) {
+ int i;
+ int pg_scanned = 0;
+
+ zone = NULL;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(&pvec); i++) {
+ struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
+ pgoff_t page_index = page->index;
+ struct zone *pagezone = page_zone(page);
+
+ pg_scanned++;
+ if (page_index > next)
+ next = page_index;
+ next++;
+
+ if (pagezone != zone) {
+ if (zone)
+ spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
+ zone = pagezone;
+ spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
+ }
+
+ if (PageLRU(page) && PageUnevictable(page))
+ check_move_unevictable_page(page, zone);
+ }
+ if (zone)
+ spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
+ pagevec_release(&pvec);
+
+ count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pg_scanned);
+ }
+
+}
#endif