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Minchan Kim
bc75d33f0f page-allocator: clean up functions related to pages_min
Change the names of two functions. It doesn't affect behavior.

Presently, setup_per_zone_pages_min() changes low, high of zone as well as
min.  So a better name is setup_per_zone_wmarks().  That's because Mel
changed zone->pages_[hig/low/min] to zone->watermark array in "page
allocator: replace the watermark-related union in struct zone with a
watermark[] array".

 * setup_per_zone_pages_min => setup_per_zone_wmarks

Of course, we have to change init_per_zone_pages_min, too.  There are not
pages_min any more.

 * init_per_zone_pages_min => init_per_zone_wmark_min

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:41 -07:00
MinChan Kim
69c8548175 vmscan: prevent shrinking of active anon lru list in case of no swap space V3
shrink_zone() can deactivate active anon pages even if we don't have a
swap device.  Many embedded products don't have a swap device.  So the
deactivation of anon pages is unnecessary.

This patch prevents unnecessary deactivation of anon lru pages.  But, it
don't prevent aging of anon pages to swap out.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:41 -07:00
Brice Goglin
35282a2de4 migration: only migrate_prep() once per move_pages()
migrate_prep() is fairly expensive (72us on 16-core barcelona 1.9GHz).
Commit 3140a22730 improved move_pages()
throughput by breaking it into chunks, but it also made migrate_prep() be
called once per chunk (every 128pages or so) instead of once per
move_pages().

This patch reverts to calling migrate_prep() only once per chunk as we did
before 2.6.29.  It is also a followup to commit
0aedadf91a ("mm: move migrate_prep out from
under mmap_sem").

This improves migration throughput on the above machine from 600MB/s to
750MB/s.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-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>
2009-06-16 19:47:41 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
7f33d49a2e mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen
Currently, the following scenario appears to be possible in theory:

* Tasks are frozen for hibernation or suspend.
* Free pages are almost exhausted.
* Certain piece of code in the suspend code path attempts to allocate
  some memory using GFP_KERNEL and allocation order less than or
  equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
* __alloc_pages_internal() cannot find a free page so it invokes the
  OOM killer.
* The OOM killer attempts to kill a task, but the task is frozen, so
  it doesn't die immediately.
* __alloc_pages_internal() jumps to 'restart', unsuccessfully tries
  to find a free page and invokes the OOM killer.
* No progress can be made.

Although it is now hard to trigger during hibernation due to the memory
shrinking carried out by the hibernation code, it is theoretically
possible to trigger during suspend after the memory shrinking has been
removed from that code path.  Moreover, since memory allocations are
going to be used for the hibernation memory shrinking, it will be even
more likely to happen during hibernation.

To prevent it from happening, introduce the oom_killer_disabled switch
that will cause __alloc_pages_internal() to fail in the situations in
which the OOM killer would have been called and make the freezer set
this switch after tasks have been successfully frozen.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: be nicer to the namespace]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Nick Piggin
75927af8bc mm: madvise(): correct return code
The posix_madvise() function succeeds (and does nothing) when called with
parameters (NULL, 0, -1); according to LSB tests, it should fail with
EINVAL because -1 is not a valid flag.

When called with a valid address and size, it correctly fails.

So perform an initial check for valid flags first.

Reported-by: Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Andrew Morton
dab48dab37 page-allocator: warn if __GFP_NOFAIL is used for a large allocation
__GFP_NOFAIL is a bad fiction.  Allocations _can_ fail, and callers should
detect and suitably handle this (and not by lamely moving the infinite
loop up to the caller level either).

Attempting to use __GFP_NOFAIL for a higher-order allocation is even
worse, so add a once-off runtime check for this to slap people around for
even thinking about trying it.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
3b6748e2dd mm: introduce follow_pfn()
Analoguous to follow_phys(), add a helper that looks up the PFN at a
user virtual address in an IO mapping or a raw PFN mapping.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
03668a4deb mm: use generic follow_pte() in follow_phys()
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
f8ad0f499f mm: introduce follow_pte()
A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an
address from it to a pte.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
e9bb35df6f mm: setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio - fix comment and make it __init
The caller of setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio is an __init function.  There
is no need to keep the callee after it completed as well.  Also fix a
comment.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5c87eada68 mm: setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio - do not call for int_sqrt if not needed
int_sqrt() returns 0 if its argument is zero so call it if only needed.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
af166777cf vmscan: ZVC updates in shrink_active_list() can be done once
This effectively lifts the unit of updates to nr_inactive_* and
pgdeactivate from PAGEVEC_SIZE=14 to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX=32, or
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES=1024 for reclaim_zone().

Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
08d9ae7cbb vmscan: don't export nr_saved_scan in /proc/zoneinfo
The lru->nr_saved_scan's are not meaningful counters for even kernel
developers.  They typically are smaller than 32 and are always 0 for large
lists.  So remove them from /proc/zoneinfo.

Hopefully this interface change won't break too many scripts.
/proc/zoneinfo is too unstructured to be script friendly, and I wonder the
affected scripts - if there are any - are still bleeding since the not
long ago commit "vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets", which
also touched the "scanned" line :)

If we are to re-export accumulated vmscan counts in the future, they can
go to new lines in /proc/zoneinfo instead of the current form, or to
/sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo?

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
6e08a369ee vmscan: cleanup the scan batching code
The vmscan batching logic is twisting.  Move it into a standalone function
nr_scan_try_batch() and document it.  No behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-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>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Rik van Riel
56e49d2188 vmscan: evict use-once pages first
When the file LRU lists are dominated by streaming IO pages, evict those
pages first, before considering evicting other pages.

This should be safe from deadlocks or performance problems
because only three things can happen to an inactive file page:

1) referenced twice and promoted to the active list
2) evicted by the pageout code
3) under IO, after which it will get evicted or promoted

The pages freed in this way can either be reused for streaming IO, or
allocated for something else.  If the pages are used for streaming IO,
this pageout pattern continues.  Otherwise, we will fall back to the
normal pageout pattern.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:38 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
20a0307c03 mm: introduce PageHuge() for testing huge/gigantic pages
A series of patches to enhance the /proc/pagemap interface and to add a
userspace executable which can be used to present the pagemap data.

Export 10 more flags to end users (and more for kernel developers):

        11. KPF_MMAP            (pseudo flag) memory mapped page
        12. KPF_ANON            (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous)
        13. KPF_SWAPCACHE       page is in swap cache
        14. KPF_SWAPBACKED      page is swap/RAM backed
        15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD   (*)
        16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL   (*)
        17. KPF_HUGE		hugeTLB pages
        18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE     page is in the unevictable LRU list
        19. KPF_HWPOISON        hardware detected corruption
        20. KPF_NOPAGE          (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address

        (*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables
            users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order.

a simple demo of the page-types tool

# ./page-types -h
page-types [options]
            -r|--raw                  Raw mode, for kernel developers
            -a|--addr    addr-spec    Walk a range of pages
            -b|--bits    bits-spec    Walk pages with specified bits
            -l|--list                 Show page details in ranges
            -L|--list-each            Show page details one by one
            -N|--no-summary           Don't show summay info
            -h|--help                 Show this usage message
addr-spec:
            N                         one page at offset N (unit: pages)
            N+M                       pages range from N to N+M-1
            N,M                       pages range from N to M-1
            N,                        pages range from N to end
            ,M                        pages range from 0 to M
bits-spec:
            bit1,bit2                 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) != 0
            bit1,bit2=bit1            (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1
            bit1,~bit2                (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1
            =bit1,bit2                flags == (bit1|bit2)
bit-names:
          locked              error         referenced           uptodate
           dirty                lru             active               slab
       writeback            reclaim              buddy               mmap
       anonymous          swapcache         swapbacked      compound_head
   compound_tail               huge        unevictable           hwpoison
          nopage           reserved(r)         mlocked(r)    mappedtodisk(r)
         private(r)       private_2(r)   owner_private(r)            arch(r)
        uncached(r)       readahead(o)       slob_free(o)     slub_frozen(o)
      slub_debug(o)
                                   (r) raw mode bits  (o) overloaded bits

# ./page-types
             flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
0x0000000000000000          487369     1903  _________________________________
0x0000000000000014               5        0  __R_D____________________________  referenced,dirty
0x0000000000000020               1        0  _____l___________________________  lru
0x0000000000000024              34        0  __R__l___________________________  referenced,lru
0x0000000000000028            3838       14  ___U_l___________________________  uptodate,lru
0x0001000000000028              48        0  ___U_l_______________________I___  uptodate,lru,readahead
0x000000000000002c            6478       25  __RU_l___________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru
0x000100000000002c              47        0  __RU_l_______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead
0x0000000000000040            8344       32  ______A__________________________  active
0x0000000000000060               1        0  _____lA__________________________  lru,active
0x0000000000000068             348        1  ___U_lA__________________________  uptodate,lru,active
0x0001000000000068              12        0  ___U_lA______________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x000000000000006c             988        3  __RU_lA__________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active
0x000100000000006c              48        0  __RU_lA______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x0000000000004078               1        0  ___UDlA_______b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x000000000000407c              34        0  __RUDlA_______b__________________  referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x0000000000000400             503        1  __________B______________________  buddy
0x0000000000000804               1        0  __R________M_____________________  referenced,mmap
0x0000000000000828            1029        4  ___U_l_____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,mmap
0x0001000000000828              43        0  ___U_l_____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000082c             382        1  __RU_l_____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap
0x000100000000082c              12        0  __RU_l_____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000000868             192        0  ___U_lA____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x0001000000000868              12        0  ___U_lA____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000086c             800        3  __RU_lA____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x000100000000086c              31        0  __RU_lA____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000004878               2        0  ___UDlA____M__b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked
0x0000000000001000             492        1  ____________a____________________  anonymous
0x0000000000005808               4        0  ___U_______Ma_b__________________  uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x0000000000005868            2839       11  ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x000000000000586c              30        0  __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
             total          513968     2007

# ./page-types -r
             flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
0x0000000000000000          468002     1828  _________________________________
0x0000000100000000           19102       74  _____________________r___________  reserved
0x0000000000008000              41        0  _______________H_________________  compound_head
0x0000000000010000             188        0  ________________T________________  compound_tail
0x0000000000008014               1        0  __R_D__________H_________________  referenced,dirty,compound_head
0x0000000000010014               4        0  __R_D___________T________________  referenced,dirty,compound_tail
0x0000000000000020               1        0  _____l___________________________  lru
0x0000000800000024              34        0  __R__l__________________P________  referenced,lru,private
0x0000000000000028            3794       14  ___U_l___________________________  uptodate,lru
0x0001000000000028              46        0  ___U_l_______________________I___  uptodate,lru,readahead
0x0000000400000028              44        0  ___U_l_________________d_________  uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
0x0001000400000028               2        0  ___U_l_________________d_____I___  uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk,readahead
0x000000000000002c            6434       25  __RU_l___________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru
0x000100000000002c              47        0  __RU_l_______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead
0x000000040000002c              14        0  __RU_l_________________d_________  referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
0x000000080000002c              30        0  __RU_l__________________P________  referenced,uptodate,lru,private
0x0000000800000040            8124       31  ______A_________________P________  active,private
0x0000000000000040             219        0  ______A__________________________  active
0x0000000800000060               1        0  _____lA_________________P________  lru,active,private
0x0000000000000068             322        1  ___U_lA__________________________  uptodate,lru,active
0x0001000000000068              12        0  ___U_lA______________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x0000000400000068              13        0  ___U_lA________________d_________  uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk
0x0000000800000068              12        0  ___U_lA_________________P________  uptodate,lru,active,private
0x000000000000006c             977        3  __RU_lA__________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active
0x000100000000006c              48        0  __RU_lA______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x000000040000006c               5        0  __RU_lA________________d_________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk
0x000000080000006c               3        0  __RU_lA_________________P________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private
0x0000000c0000006c               3        0  __RU_lA________________dP________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private
0x0000000c00000068               1        0  ___U_lA________________dP________  uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private
0x0000000000004078               1        0  ___UDlA_______b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x000000000000407c              34        0  __RUDlA_______b__________________  referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x0000000000000400             538        2  __________B______________________  buddy
0x0000000000000804               1        0  __R________M_____________________  referenced,mmap
0x0000000000000828            1029        4  ___U_l_____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,mmap
0x0001000000000828              43        0  ___U_l_____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000082c             382        1  __RU_l_____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap
0x000100000000082c              12        0  __RU_l_____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000000868             192        0  ___U_lA____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x0001000000000868              12        0  ___U_lA____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000086c             800        3  __RU_lA____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x000100000000086c              31        0  __RU_lA____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000004878               2        0  ___UDlA____M__b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked
0x0000000000001000             492        1  ____________a____________________  anonymous
0x0000000000005008               2        0  ___U________a_b__________________  uptodate,anonymous,swapbacked
0x0000000000005808               4        0  ___U_______Ma_b__________________  uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x000000000000580c               1        0  __RU_______Ma_b__________________  referenced,uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x0000000000005868            2839       11  ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x000000000000586c              29        0  __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
             total          513968     2007

# ./page-types --raw --list --no-summary --bits reserved
offset  count   flags
0       15      _____________________r___________
31      4       _____________________r___________
159     97      _____________________r___________
4096    2067    _____________________r___________
6752    2390    _____________________r___________
9355    3       _____________________r___________
9728    14526   _____________________r___________

This patch:

Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages by their
dedicated compound destructor functions.

Also move prep_compound_gigantic_page() to hugetlb.c and make
__free_pages_ok() non-static.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:36 -07:00
Mel Gorman
a1dd268cf6 mm: use alloc_pages_exact() in alloc_large_system_hash() to avoid duplicated logic
alloc_large_system_hash() has logic for freeing pages at the end of an
excessively large power-of-two buffer that is a duplicate of what is in
alloc_pages_exact().  This patch converts alloc_large_system_hash() to use
alloc_pages_exact().

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:36 -07:00
Mel Gorman
72807a74c0 page allocator: sanity check order in the page allocator slow path
Callers may speculatively call different allocators in order of preference
trying to allocate a buffer of a given size.  The order needed to allocate
this may be larger than what the page allocator can normally handle.
While the allocator mostly does the right thing, it should not direct
reclaim or wakeup kswapd with a bogus order.  This patch sanity checks the
order in the slow path and returns NULL if it is too large.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: 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>
2009-06-16 19:47:36 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
092cead617 page allocator: move free_page_mlock() to page_alloc.c
Currently, free_page_mlock() is only called from page_alloc.c.  Thus, we
can move it to page_alloc.c.

Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Mel Gorman
b6e68bc1ba page allocator: slab: use nr_online_nodes to check for a NUMA platform
SLAB currently avoids checking a bitmap repeatedly by checking once and
storing a flag.  When the addition of nr_online_nodes as a cheaper version
of num_online_nodes(), this check can be replaced by nr_online_nodes.

(Christoph did a patch that this is lifted almost verbatim from)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
62bc62a873 page allocator: use a pre-calculated value instead of num_online_nodes() in fast paths
num_online_nodes() is called in a number of places but most often by the
page allocator when deciding whether the zonelist needs to be filtered
based on cpusets or the zonelist cache.  This is actually a heavy function
and touches a number of cache lines.

This patch stores the number of online nodes at boot time and updates the
value when nodes get onlined and offlined.  The value is then used in a
number of important paths in place of num_online_nodes().

[rientjes@google.com: do not override definition of node_set_online() with macro]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Mel Gorman
974709bdb2 page allocator: get the pageblock migratetype without disabling interrupts
Local interrupts are disabled when freeing pages to the PCP list.  Part of
that free checks what the migratetype of the pageblock the page is in but
it checks this with interrupts disabled and interupts should never be
disabled longer than necessary.  This patch checks the pagetype with
interrupts enabled with the impact that it is possible a page is freed to
the wrong list when a pageblock changes type.  As that block is now
already considered mixed from an anti-fragmentation perspective, it's not
of vital importance.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Mel Gorman
f2260e6b1f page allocator: update NR_FREE_PAGES only as necessary
When pages are being freed to the buddy allocator, the zone NR_FREE_PAGES
counter must be updated.  In the case of bulk per-cpu page freeing, it's
updated once per page.  This retouches cache lines more than necessary.
Update the counters one per per-cpu bulk free.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Mel Gorman
418589663d page allocator: use allocation flags as an index to the zone watermark
ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW and ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH determin whether
pages_min, pages_low or pages_high is used as the zone watermark when
allocating the pages.  Two branches in the allocator hotpath determine
which watermark to use.

This patch uses the flags as an array index into a watermark array that is
indexed with WMARK_* defines accessed via helpers.  All call sites that
use zone->pages_* are updated to use the helpers for accessing the values
and the array offsets for setting.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Nick Piggin
a3af9c389a page allocator: do not check for compound pages during the page allocator sanity checks
A number of sanity checks are made on each page allocation and free
including that the page count is zero.  page_count() checks for compound
pages and checks the count of the head page if true.  However, in these
paths, we do not care if the page is compound or not as the count of each
tail page should also be zero.

This patch makes two changes to the use of page_count() in the free path.
It converts one check of page_count() to a VM_BUG_ON() as the count should
have been unconditionally checked earlier in the free path.  It also
avoids checking for compound pages.

[mel@csn.ul.ie: Wrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
d395b73428 page allocator: do not setup zonelist cache when there is only one node
There is a zonelist cache which is used to track zones that are not in the
allowed cpuset or found to be recently full.  This is to reduce cache
footprint on large machines.  On smaller machines, it just incurs cost for
no gain.  This patch only uses the zonelist cache when there are NUMA
nodes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
da456f14d2 page allocator: do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock()
free_page_mlock() tests and clears PG_mlocked using locked versions of the
bit operations.  If set, it disables interrupts to update counters and
this happens on every page free even though interrupts are disabled very
shortly afterwards a second time.  This is wasteful.

This patch splits what free_page_mlock() does.  The bit check is still
made.  However, the update of counters is delayed until the interrupts are
disabled and the non-lock version for clearing the bit is used.  One
potential weirdness with this split is that the counters do not get
updated if the bad_page() check is triggered but a system showing bad
pages is getting screwed already.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
ed0ae21dc5 page allocator: do not call get_pageblock_migratetype() more than necessary
get_pageblock_migratetype() is potentially called twice for every page
free.  Once, when being freed to the pcp lists and once when being freed
back to buddy.  When freeing from the pcp lists, it is known what the
pageblock type was at the time of free so use it rather than rechecking.
In low memory situations under memory pressure, this might skew
anti-fragmentation slightly but the interference is minimal and decisions
that are fragmenting memory are being made anyway.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
0ac3a4099b page allocator: inline __rmqueue_fallback()
__rmqueue_fallback() is in the slow path but has only one call site.
Because there is only one call-site, this function can then be inlined
without causing text bloat.  On an x86-based config, it made no difference
as the savings were padded out by NOP instructions.  Milage varies but
text will either decrease in size or remain static.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
0a15c3e9f6 page allocator: inline buffered_rmqueue()
buffered_rmqueue() is in the fast path so inline it.  Because it only has
one call site, this function can then be inlined without causing text
bloat.  On an x86-based config, it made no difference as the savings were
padded out by NOP instructions.  Milage varies but text will either
decrease in size or remain static.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
728ec980fb page allocator: inline __rmqueue_smallest()
Inline __rmqueue_smallest by altering flow very slightly so that there is
only one call site.  Because there is only one call-site, this function
can then be inlined without causing text bloat.  On an x86-based config,
this patch reduces text by 16 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:33 -07:00
Mel Gorman
a56f57ff94 page allocator: remove a branch by assuming __GFP_HIGH == ALLOC_HIGH
Allocations that specify __GFP_HIGH get the ALLOC_HIGH flag.  If these
flags are equal to each other, we can eliminate a branch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Suggested the hack]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:33 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
341ce06f69 page allocator: calculate the alloc_flags for allocation only once
Factor out the mapping between GFP and alloc_flags only once.  Once
factored out, it only needs to be calculated once but some care must be
taken.

[neilb@suse.de says]
As the test:

-       if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
-                       && !in_interrupt()) {
-               if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {

has been replaced with a slightly weaker one:

+       if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {

Without care, this would allow recursion into the allocator via direct
reclaim.  This patch ensures we do not recurse when PF_MEMALLOC is set but
TF_MEMDIE callers are now allowed to directly reclaim where they would
have been prevented in the past.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:33 -07:00
Mel Gorman
3dd2826698 page allocator: calculate the migratetype for allocation only once
GFP mask is converted into a migratetype when deciding which pagelist to
take a page from.  However, it is happening multiple times per allocation,
at least once per zone traversed.  Calculate it once.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:33 -07:00
Mel Gorman
5117f45d11 page allocator: calculate the preferred zone for allocation only once
get_page_from_freelist() can be called multiple times for an allocation.
Part of this calculates the preferred_zone which is the first usable zone
in the zonelist but the zone depends on the GFP flags specified at the
beginning of the allocation call.  This patch calculates preferred_zone
once.  It's safe to do this because if preferred_zone is NULL at the start
of the call, no amount of direct reclaim or other actions will change the
fact the allocation will fail.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove (void) casts]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:33 -07:00
Mel Gorman
49255c619f page allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as there is
nothing it can do and it would just incur overhead shuffling pages between
lists constantly.  Currently the check is made in the free page fast path
for every page.  This patch moves it to a slow path.  On machines with low
memory, there will be small amount of additional overhead as pages get
shuffled between lists but it should quickly settle.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:33 -07:00
Mel Gorman
11e33f6a55 page allocator: break up the allocator entry point into fast and slow paths
The core of the page allocator is one giant function which allocates
memory on the stack and makes calculations that may not be needed for
every allocation.  This patch breaks up the allocator path into fast and
slow paths for clarity.  Note the slow paths are still inlined but the
entry is marked unlikely.  If they were not inlined, it actally increases
text size to generate the as there is only one call site.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
Mel Gorman
7f82af9742 page allocator: check only once if the zonelist is suitable for the allocation
It is possible with __GFP_THISNODE that no zones are suitable.  This patch
makes sure the check is only made once.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
Mel Gorman
6484eb3e2a page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
"allocate from the current node".  However, a number of the callers in
fast paths know for a fact their node is valid.  To avoid a comparison and
branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid
with VM_BUG_ON().  Callers that know their node is valid are then
converted.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>	[for the SLOB NUMA bits]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
Mel Gorman
b3c466ce51 page allocator: do not sanity check order in the fast path
No user of the allocator API should be passing in an order >= MAX_ORDER
but we check for it on each and every allocation.  Delete this check and
make it a VM_BUG_ON check further down the call path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/VM_BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE/]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
Mel Gorman
d239171e4f page allocator: replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask()
The start of a large patch series to clean up and optimise the page
allocator.

The performance improvements are in a wide range depending on the exact
machine but the results I've seen so fair are approximately;

kernbench:	0	to	 0.12% (elapsed time)
		0.49%	to	 3.20% (sys time)
aim9:		-4%	to	30% (for page_test and brk_test)
tbench:		-1%	to	 4%
hackbench:	-2.5%	to	 3.45% (mostly within the noise though)
netperf-udp	-1.34%  to	 4.06% (varies between machines a bit)
netperf-tcp	-0.44%  to	 5.22% (varies between machines a bit)

I haven't sysbench figures at hand, but previously they were within the
-0.5% to 2% range.

On netperf, the client and server were bound to opposite number CPUs to
maximise the problems with cache line bouncing of the struct pages so I
expect different people to report different results for netperf depending
on their exact machine and how they ran the test (different machines, same
cpus client/server, shared cache but two threads client/server, different
socket client/server etc).

I also measured the vmlinux sizes for a single x86-based config with
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled but not CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.  The core of the
.config is based on the Debian Lenny kernel config so I expect it to be
reasonably typical.

This patch:

__alloc_pages_internal is the core page allocator function but essentially
it is an alias of __alloc_pages_nodemask.  Naming a publicly available and
exported function "internal" is also a big ugly.  This patch renames
__alloc_pages_internal() to __alloc_pages_nodemask() and deletes the old
nodemask function.

Warning - This patch renames an exported symbol.  No kernel driver is
affected by external drivers calling __alloc_pages_internal() should
change the call to __alloc_pages_nodemask() without any alteration of
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
6c0db4664b mm: alloc_large_system_hash check order
On an x86_64 with 4GB ram, tcp_init()'s call to alloc_large_system_hash(),
to allocate tcp_hashinfo.ehash, is now triggering an mmotm WARN_ON_ONCE on
order >= MAX_ORDER - it's hoping for order 11.  alloc_large_system_hash()
had better make its own check on the order.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:31 -07:00
Miao Xie
58568d2a82 cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory
spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is
changed.

In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of
memory policy.  Because the memory policy is applied in the process's
context originally.  After applying this patch, one task directly
manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the
task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task.

But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a
lock may lead to performance regression.  But if we don't add a lock,the
task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some
non-overlapping set.  In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes,
then clear newly disallowed ones.

[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
  The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to
  apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind()
  with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local
  allocation.  Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty
  node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy().

  Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new().

  Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL
  'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new().
  Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for
  'empty'.  However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to
  verify this assumption.]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:

  I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive
  enough to differentiate it from mpol_new().

  This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes
  to those allowed by the cpuset.  However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag
  is set, it also translates the nodes.  So I settled on
  'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions
  that we need to call this function to "set nodes".

  Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:31 -07:00
H Hartley Sweeten
dcf975d585 mm/page-writeback.c: dirty limit type should be unsigned long
get_dirty_limits() calls clip_bdi_dirty_limit() and task_dirty_limit()
with variable pbdi_dirty as one of the arguments.  This variable is an
unsigned long * but both functions expect it to be a long *.  This causes
the following sparse warnings:

  warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
     expected long *pbdi_dirty
     got unsigned long *pbdi_dirty
  warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
     expected long *pdirty
     got unsigned long *pbdi_dirty

Fix the warnings by changing the long * to unsigned long * in both
functions.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:31 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
78dc583d3a vmscan: low order lumpy reclaim also should use PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC
Commit 33c120ed28 ("more aggressively use
lumpy reclaim") increased how aggressive lumpy reclaim was by isolating
both active and inactive pages for asynchronous lumpy reclaim on
costly-high-order pages and for cheap-high-order when memory pressure is
high.  However, if the system is under heavy pressure and there are dirty
pages, asynchronous IO may not be sufficient to reclaim a suitable page in
time.

This patch causes the caller to enter synchronous lumpy reclaim for
costly-high-order pages and for cheap-high-order pages when under memory
pressure.

Minchan.kim@gmail.com said:

Andy added synchronous lumpy reclaim with
c661b078fd.  At that time, lumpy reclaim is
not agressive.  His intension is just for high-order users.(above
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).

After some time, Rik added aggressive lumpy reclaim with
33c120ed28.  His intention was to do lumpy
reclaim when high-order users and trouble getting a small set of
contiguous pages.

So we also have to add synchronous pageout for small set of contiguous
pages.

Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <Minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-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>
2009-06-16 19:47:31 -07:00
Nick Piggin
d2bf6be8ab mm: clean up get_user_pages_fast() documentation
Move more documentation for get_user_pages_fast into the new kerneldoc comment.
Add some comments for get_user_pages as well.

Also, move get_user_pages_fast declaration up to get_user_pages. It wasn't
there initially because it was once a static inline function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
7ffc59b4d0 readahead: enforce full sync mmap readahead size
Now that we do readahead for sequential mmap reads, here is a simple
evaluation of the impacts, and one further optimization.

It's an NFS-root debian desktop system, readahead size = 60 pages.
The numbers are grabbed after a fresh boot into console.

approach        pgmajfault      RA miss ratio   mmap IO count   avg IO size(pages)
   A            383             31.6%           383             11
   B            225             32.4%           390             11
   C            224             32.6%           307             13

case A: mmap sync/async readahead disabled
case B: mmap sync/async readahead enabled, with enforced full async readahead size
case C: mmap sync/async readahead enabled, with enforced full sync/async readahead size
or:
A = vanilla 2.6.30-rc1
B = A plus mmap readahead
C = B plus this patch

The numbers show that
- there are good possibilities for random mmap reads to trigger readahead
- 'pgmajfault' is reduced by 1/3, due to the _async_ nature of readahead
- case C can further reduce IO count by 1/4
- readahead miss ratios are not quite affected

The theory is
- readahead is _good_ for clustered random reads, and can perform
  _better_ than readaround because they could be _async_.
- async readahead size is guaranteed to be larger than readaround
  size, and they are _async_, hence will mostly behave better
However for B
- sync readahead size could be smaller than readaround size, hence may
  make things worse by produce more smaller IOs
which will be fixed by this patch.

Final conclusion:
- mmap readahead reduced major faults by 1/3 and no obvious overheads;
- mmap io can be further reduced by 1/4 with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
61b7cbdba2 readahead: remove redundant test in shrink_readahead_size_eio()
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
10be0b372c readahead: introduce context readahead algorithm
Introduce page cache context based readahead algorithm.
This is to better support concurrent read streams in general.

RATIONALE
---------
The current readahead algorithm detects interleaved reads in a _passive_ way.
Given a sequence of interleaved streams 1,1001,2,1002,3,4,1003,5,1004,1005,6,...
By checking for (offset == prev_offset + 1), it will discover the sequentialness
between 3,4 and between 1004,1005, and start doing sequential readahead for the
individual streams since page 4 and page 1005.

The context readahead algorithm guarantees to discover the sequentialness no
matter how the streams are interleaved. For the above example, it will start
sequential readahead since page 2 and 1002.

The trick is to poke for page @offset-1 in the page cache when it has no other
clues on the sequentialness of request @offset: if the current requenst belongs
to a sequential stream, that stream must have accessed page @offset-1 recently,
and the page will still be cached now. So if page @offset-1 is there, we can
take request @offset as a sequential access.

BENEFICIARIES
-------------
- strictly interleaved reads  i.e. 1,1001,2,1002,3,1003,...
  the current readahead will take them as silly random reads;
  the context readahead will take them as two sequential streams.

- cooperative IO processes   i.e. NFS and SCST
  They create a thread pool, farming off (sequential) IO requests to different
  threads which will be performing interleaved IO.

  It was not easy(or possible) to reliably tell from file->f_ra all those
  cooperative processes working on the same sequential stream, since they will
  have different file->f_ra instances. And NFSD's file->f_ra is particularly
  unusable, since their file objects are dynamically created for each request.
  The nfsd does have code trying to restore the f_ra bits, but not satisfactory.

  The new scheme is to detect the sequential pattern via looking up the page
  cache, which provides one single and consistent view of the pages recently
  accessed. That makes sequential detection for cooperative processes possible.

USER REPORT
-----------
Vladislav recommends the addition of context readahead as a result of his SCST
benchmarks. It leads to 6%~40% performance gains in various cases and achieves
equal performance in others.                http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/19/239

OVERHEADS
---------
In theory, it introduces one extra page cache lookup per random read.  However
the below benchmark shows context readahead to be slightly faster, wondering..

Randomly reading 200MB amount of data on a sparse file, repeat 20 times for
each block size. The average throughputs are:

                       	original ra	context ra	gain
 4K random reads:	 65.561MB/s	 65.648MB/s	+0.1%
16K random reads:	124.767MB/s	124.951MB/s	+0.1%
64K random reads: 	162.123MB/s	162.278MB/s	+0.1%

Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
045a2529a3 readahead: move the random read case to bottom
Split all readahead cases, and move the random one to bottom.

No behavior changes.

This is to prepare for the introduction of context readahead, and make it
easy for inserting accounting/tracing points for each case.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00