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  1. 15 8月, 2015 1 次提交
  3. 07 8月, 2015 4 次提交
    • N
      mm: check __PG_HWPOISON separately from PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_* · f4c18e6f
      由 Naoya Horiguchi 提交于 
      The race condition addressed in commit add05cec ("mm: soft-offline:
don't free target page in successful page migration") was not closed
completely, because that can happen not only for soft-offline, but also
for hard-offline.  Consider that a slab page is about to be freed into
buddy pool, and then an uncorrected memory error hits the page just
after entering __free_one_page(), then VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags &
PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) is triggered, despite the fact that it's not
necessary because the data on the affected page is not consumed.

To solve it, this patch drops __PG_HWPOISON from page flag checks at
allocation/free time.  I think it's justified because __PG_HWPOISON
flags is defined to prevent the page from being reused, and setting it
outside the page's alloc-free cycle is a designed behavior (not a bug.)

For recent months, I was annoyed about BUG_ON when soft-offlined page
remains on lru cache list for a while, which is avoided by calling
put_page() instead of putback_lru_page() in page migration's success
path.  This means that this patch reverts a major change from commit
add05cec about the new refcounting rule of soft-offlined pages, so
"reuse window" revives.  This will be closed by a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: NNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f4c18e6f
    • M
      fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation · 4248b0da
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      Dave Hansen reported the following;

	My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2.  Once I log
	in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
	from applications and see this in my dmesg:

        	VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using.  This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation.  Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.

4.1:             files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2:         files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467

Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4248b0da
    • N
      mm, meminit: replace rwsem with completion · d3cd131d
      由 Nicolai Stange 提交于 
      Commit 0e1cc95b ("mm: meminit: finish initialisation of struct pages
before basic setup") introduced a rwsem to signal completion of the
initialization workers.

Lockdep complains about possible recursive locking:
  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  4.1.0-12802-g1dc51b82 #3 Not tainted
  ---------------------------------------------
  swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock:
  (pgdat_init_rwsem){++++.+},
    at: [<ffffffff8424c7fb>] page_alloc_init_late+0xc7/0xe6

  but task is already holding lock:
  (pgdat_init_rwsem){++++.+},
    at: [<ffffffff8424c772>] page_alloc_init_late+0x3e/0xe6

Replace the rwsem by a completion together with an atomic
"outstanding work counter".

[peterz@infradead.org: Barrier removal on the grounds of being pointless]
[mgorman@suse.de: Applied review feedback]
Signed-off-by: NNicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d3cd131d
    • M
      mm, meminit: allow early_pfn_to_nid to be used during runtime · 7ace9917
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      early_pfn_to_nid() historically was inherently not SMP safe but only
used during boot which is inherently single threaded or during hotplug
which is protected by a giant mutex.

With deferred memory initialisation there was a thread-safe version
introduced and the early_pfn_to_nid would trigger a BUG_ON if used
unsafely.  Memory hotplug hit that check.  This patch makes
early_pfn_to_nid introduces a lock to make it safe to use during
hotplug.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: NAlex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: NAlex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7ace9917
  5. 18 7月, 2015 3 次提交
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      mm/page_owner: set correct gfp_mask on page_owner · e2cfc911
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Currently, we set wrong gfp_mask to page_owner info in case of isolated
freepage by compaction and split page.  It causes incorrect mixed
pageblock report that we can get from '/proc/pagetypeinfo'.  This metric
is really useful to measure fragmentation effect so should be accurate.
This patch fixes it by setting correct information.

Without this patch, after kernel build workload is finished, number of
mixed pageblock is 112 among roughly 210 movable pageblocks.

But, with this fix, output shows that mixed pageblock is just 57.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e2cfc911
    • J
      mm/page_owner: fix possible access violation · f3a14ced
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      When I tested my new patches, I found that page pointer which is used
for setting page_owner information is changed.  This is because page
pointer is used to set new migratetype in loop.  After this work, page
pointer could be out of bound.  If this wrong pointer is used for
page_owner, access violation happens.  Below is error message that I
got.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000b00018
  IP: [<ffffffff81025f30>] save_stack_address+0x30/0x40
  PGD 1af2d067 PUD 166e0067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
  ...snip...
  Call Trace:
    print_context_stack+0xcf/0x100
    dump_trace+0x15f/0x320
    save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x50
    __set_page_owner+0x46/0x70
    __isolate_free_page+0x1f7/0x210
    split_free_page+0x21/0xb0
    isolate_freepages_block+0x1e2/0x410
    compaction_alloc+0x22d/0x2d0
    migrate_pages+0x289/0x8b0
    compact_zone+0x409/0x880
    compact_zone_order+0x6d/0x90
    try_to_compact_pages+0x110/0x210
    __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x3d/0xe6
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6cd/0x9a0
    alloc_pages_current+0x91/0x100
    runtest_store+0x296/0xa50
    simple_attr_write+0xbd/0xe0
    __vfs_write+0x28/0xf0
    vfs_write+0xa9/0x1b0
    SyS_write+0x46/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x75

This patch fixes this error by moving up set_page_owner().
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f3a14ced
    • M
      mm, meminit: suppress unused memory variable warning · ae026b2a
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      The kbuild test robot reported the following

  tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
  head:   14a6f198
  commit: 3b242c66 x86: mm: enable deferred struct page initialisation on x86-64
  date:   3 days ago
  config: x86_64-randconfig-x006-201527 (attached as .config)
  reproduce:
    git checkout 3b242c66
    # save the attached .config to linux build tree
    make ARCH=x86_64

  All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

     mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'early_page_uninitialised':
  >> mm/page_alloc.c:247:6: warning: unused variable 'nid' [-Wunused-variable]
       int nid = early_pfn_to_nid(pfn);

It's due to the NODE_DATA macro ignoring the nid parameter on !NUMA
configurations.  This patch avoids the warning by not declaring nid.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ae026b2a
  7. 01 7月, 2015 12 次提交
  9. 25 6月, 2015 5 次提交
  11. 12 5月, 2015 1 次提交
    • A
      mm/net: Rename and move page fragment handling from net/ to mm/ · b63ae8ca
      由 Alexander Duyck 提交于 
      This change moves the __alloc_page_frag functionality out of the networking
stack and into the page allocation portion of mm.  The idea it so help make
this maintainable by placing it with other page allocation functions.

Since we are moving it from skbuff.c to page_alloc.c I have also renamed
the basic defines and structure from netdev_alloc_cache to page_frag_cache
to reflect that this is now part of a different kernel subsystem.

I have also added a simple __free_page_frag function which can handle
freeing the frags based on the skb->head pointer.  The model for this is
based off of __free_pages since we don't actually need to deal with all of
the cases that put_page handles.  I incorporated the virt_to_head_page call
and compound_order into the function as it actually allows for a signficant
size reduction by reducing code duplication.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b63ae8ca
  13. 16 4月, 2015 1 次提交
  15. 15 4月, 2015 7 次提交
    • Y
      mm/page_alloc.c: clean up comment · 42ff2703
      由 Yaowei Bai 提交于 
      Signed-off-by: NYaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42ff2703
    • D
      mm: remove GFP_THISNODE · 4167e9b2
      由 David Rientjes 提交于 
      NOTE: this is not about __GFP_THISNODE, this is only about GFP_THISNODE.

GFP_THISNODE is a secret combination of gfp bits that have different
behavior than expected.  It is a combination of __GFP_THISNODE,
__GFP_NORETRY, and __GFP_NOWARN and is special-cased in the page
allocator slowpath to fail without trying reclaim even though it may be
used in combination with __GFP_WAIT.

An example of the problem this creates: commit e97ca8e5 ("mm: fix
GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify") fixed up many users of GFP_THISNODE
that really just wanted __GFP_THISNODE.  The problem doesn't end there,
however, because even it was a no-op for alloc_misplaced_dst_page(),
which also sets __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN, and
migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(), where __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWAIT
is set in GFP_TRANSHUGE.  Converting GFP_THISNODE to __GFP_THISNODE is a
no-op in these cases since the page allocator special-cases
__GFP_THISNODE && __GFP_NORETRY && __GFP_NOWARN.

It's time to just remove GFP_THISNODE entirely.  We leave __GFP_THISNODE
to restrict an allocation to a local node, but remove GFP_THISNODE and
its obscurity.  Instead, we require that a caller clear __GFP_WAIT if it
wants to avoid reclaim.

This allows the aforementioned functions to actually reclaim as they
should.  It also enables any future callers that want to do
__GFP_THISNODE but also __GFP_NORETRY && __GFP_NOWARN to reclaim.  The
rule is simple: if you don't want to reclaim, then don't set __GFP_WAIT.

Aside: ovs_flow_stats_update() really wants to avoid reclaim as well, so
it is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4167e9b2
    • K
      mm: completely remove dumping per-cpu lists from show_mem() · 761b0677
      由 Konstantin Khlebnikov 提交于 
      It seems nobody needs this.
Signed-off-by: NKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      761b0677
    • K
      mm: hide per-cpu lists in output of show_mem() · d1bfcdb8
      由 Konstantin Khlebnikov 提交于 
      This makes show_mem() much less verbose on huge machines.  Instead of huge
and almost useless dump of counters for each per-zone per-cpu lists this
patch prints the sum of these counters for each zone (free_pcp) and size
of per-cpu list for current cpu (local_pcp).

The filter flag SHOW_MEM_PERCPU_LISTS reverts to the old verbose mode.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update show_free_areas comment]
Signed-off-by: NKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d1bfcdb8
    • J
      mm/compaction: enhance compaction finish condition · 2149cdae
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Compaction has anti fragmentation algorithm.  It is that freepage should
be more than pageblock order to finish the compaction if we don't find any
freepage in requested migratetype buddy list.  This is for mitigating
fragmentation, but, there is a lack of migratetype consideration and it is
too excessive compared to page allocator's anti fragmentation algorithm.

Not considering migratetype would cause premature finish of compaction.
For example, if allocation request is for unmovable migratetype, freepage
with CMA migratetype doesn't help that allocation and compaction should
not be stopped.  But, current logic regards this situation as compaction
is no longer needed, so finish the compaction.

Secondly, condition is too excessive compared to page allocator's logic.
We can steal freepage from other migratetype and change pageblock
migratetype on more relaxed conditions in page allocator.  This is
designed to prevent fragmentation and we can use it here.  Imposing hard
constraint only to the compaction doesn't help much in this case since
page allocator would cause fragmentation again.

To solve these problems, this patch borrows anti fragmentation logic from
page allocator.  It will reduce premature compaction finish in some cases
and reduce excessive compaction work.

stress-highalloc test in mmtests with non movable order 7 allocation shows
considerable increase of compaction success rate.

Compaction success rate (Compaction success * 100 / Compaction stalls, %)
31.82 : 42.20

I tested it on non-reboot 5 runs stress-highalloc benchmark and found that
there is no more degradation on allocation success rate than before.  That
roughly means that this patch doesn't result in more fragmentations.

Vlastimil suggests additional idea that we only test for fallbacks when
migration scanner has scanned a whole pageblock.  It looked good for
fragmentation because chance of stealing increase due to making more free
pages in certain pageblock.  So, I tested it, but, it results in decreased
compaction success rate, roughly 38.00.  I guess the reason that if system
is low memory condition, watermark check could be failed due to not enough
order 0 free page and so, sometimes, we can't reach a fallback check
although migrate_pfn is aligned to pageblock_nr_pages.  I can insert code
to cope with this situation but it makes code more complicated so I don't
include his idea at this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CMA=n build]
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2149cdae
    • J
      mm/page_alloc: factor out fallback freepage checking · 4eb7dce6
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      This is preparation step to use page allocator's anti fragmentation logic
in compaction.  This patch just separates fallback freepage checking part
from fallback freepage management part.  Therefore, there is no functional
change.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4eb7dce6
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      mm/cma: change fallback behaviour for CMA freepage · dc67647b
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Freepage with MIGRATE_CMA can be used only for MIGRATE_MOVABLE and they
should not be expanded to other migratetype buddy list to protect them
from unmovable/reclaimable allocation.  Implementing these requirements in
__rmqueue_fallback(), that is, finding largest possible block of freepage
has bad effect that high order freepage with MIGRATE_CMA are broken
continually although there are suitable order CMA freepage.  Reason is
that they are not be expanded to other migratetype buddy list and next
__rmqueue_fallback() invocation try to finds another largest block of
freepage and break it again.  So, MIGRATE_CMA fallback should be handled
separately.  This patch introduces __rmqueue_cma_fallback(), that just
wrapper of __rmqueue_smallest() and call it before __rmqueue_fallback() if
migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE.

This results in unintended behaviour change that MIGRATE_CMA freepage is
always used first rather than other migratetype as movable allocation's
fallback.  But, as already mentioned above, MIGRATE_CMA can be used only
for MIGRATE_MOVABLE, so it is better to use MIGRATE_CMA freepage first as
much as possible.  Otherwise, we needlessly take up precious freepages
with other migratetype and increase chance of fragmentation.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dc67647b
  17. 13 3月, 2015 1 次提交
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      mm, oom: do not fail __GFP_NOFAIL allocation if oom killer is disabled · e009d5dc
      由 Michal Hocko 提交于 
      Tetsuo Handa has pointed out that __GFP_NOFAIL allocations might fail
after OOM killer is disabled if the allocation is performed by a kernel
thread.  This behavior was introduced from the very beginning by
7f33d49a ("mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen").
 This means that the basic contract for the allocation request is broken
and the context requesting such an allocation might blow up unexpectedly.

There are basically two ways forward.

1) move oom_killer_disable after kernel threads are frozen.  This has a
   risk that the OOM victim wouldn't be able to finish because it would
   depend on an already frozen kernel thread.  This would be really tricky
   to debug.

2) do not fail GFP_NOFAIL allocation no matter what and risk a
   potential Freezable kernel threads will loop and fail the suspend.
   Incidental allocations after kernel threads are frozen will at least
   dump a warning - if we are lucky and the serial console is still active
   of course...

This patch implements the later option because it is safer.  We would see
warning rather than allocation failures for the kernel threads which would
blow up otherwise and have a higher chances to identify __GFP_NOFAIL users
from deeper pm code.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@gooogle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e009d5dc
  19. 01 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  21. 14 2月, 2015 1 次提交
    • A
      mm: page_alloc: add kasan hooks on alloc and free paths · b8c73fc2
      由 Andrey Ryabinin 提交于 
      Add kernel address sanitizer hooks to mark allocated page's addresses as
accessible in corresponding shadow region.  Mark freed pages as
inaccessible.
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b8c73fc2
  23. 13 2月, 2015 2 次提交
  25. 12 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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      mm: more aggressive page stealing for UNMOVABLE allocations · 9c0415eb
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      When allocation falls back to stealing free pages of another migratetype,
it can decide to steal extra pages, or even the whole pageblock in order
to reduce fragmentation, which could happen if further allocation
fallbacks pick a different pageblock.  In try_to_steal_freepages(), one of
the situations where extra pages are stolen happens when we are trying to
allocate a MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE page.

However, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE allocations are not treated the same way,
although spreading such allocation over multiple fallback pageblocks is
arguably even worse than it is for RECLAIMABLE allocations.  To minimize
fragmentation, we should minimize the number of such fallbacks, and thus
steal as much as is possible from each fallback pageblock.

Note that in theory this might put more pressure on movable pageblocks and
cause movable allocations to steal back from unmovable pageblocks.
However, movable allocations are not as aggressive with stealing, and do
not cause permanent fragmentation, so the tradeoff is reasonable, and
evaluation seems to support the change.

This patch thus adds a check for MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE to the decision to
steal extra free pages.  When evaluating with stress-highalloc from
mmtests, this has reduced the number of MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE fallbacks to
roughly 1/6.  The number of these fallbacks stealing from MIGRATE_MOVABLE
block is reduced to 1/3.  There was no observation of growing number of
unmovable pageblocks over time, and also not of increased movable
allocation fallbacks.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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