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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 327c0e9686 vmscan: fix it to take care of nodemask
try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low.  The caller to
alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to
be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages().  This can lead to
unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the
worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where
it is needed.

This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to
try_to_free_pages().

Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:15 -07:00
David Rientjes 88c3bd707c vmscan: print shrink_slab symbol name on negative shrinker objects
When a shrinker has a negative number of objects to delete, the symbol
name of the shrinker should be printed, not shrink_slab.  This also makes
the error message slightly more informative.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
2009-04-01 08:59:15 -07:00
Johannes Weiner ad1c3544d0 mm: don't free swap slots on page deactivation
The pagevec_swap_free() at the end of shrink_active_list() was introduced
in 68a22394 "vmscan: free swap space on swap-in/activation" when
shrink_active_list() was still rotating referenced active pages.

In 7e9cd48 "vmscan: fix pagecache reclaim referenced bit check" this was
changed, the rotating removed but the pagevec_swap_free() after the
rotation loop was forgotten, applying now to the pagevec of the
deactivation loop instead.

Now swap space is freed for deactivated pages.  And only for those that
happen to be on the pagevec after the deactivation loop.

Complete 7e9cd48 and remove the rest of the swap freeing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 2443462b0a mm: move pagevec stripping to save unlock-relock
In shrink_active_list() after the deactivation loop, we strip buffer heads
from the potentially remaining pages in the pagevec.

Currently, this drops the zone's lru lock for stripping, only to reacquire
it again afterwards to update statistics.

It is not necessary to strip the pages before updating the stats, so move
the whole thing out of the protected region and save the extra locking.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.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>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
Johannes Weiner bd2f6199cf vmscan: respect higher order in zone_reclaim()
During page allocation, there are two stages of direct reclaim that are
applied to each zone in the preferred list.  The first stage using
zone_reclaim() reclaims unmapped file backed pages and slab pages if over
defined limits as these are cheaper to reclaim.  The caller specifies the
order of the target allocation but the scan control is not being correctly
initialised.

The impact is that the correct number of pages are being reclaimed but
that lumpy reclaim is not being applied.  This increases the chances of a
full direct reclaim via try_to_free_pages() is required.

This patch initialises the order field of the scan control as requested by
the caller.

[mel@csn.ul.ie: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2009-04-01 08:59:12 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 9786bf841d vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory()
shrink_inactive_list() scans in sc->swap_cluster_max chunks until it hits
the scan limit it was passed.

shrink_inactive_list()
{
	do {
		isolate_pages(swap_cluster_max)
		shrink_page_list()
	} while (nr_scanned < max_scan);
}

This assumes that swap_cluster_max is not bigger than the scan limit
because the latter is checked only after at least one iteration.

In shrink_all_memory() sc->swap_cluster_max is initialized to the overall
reclaim goal in the beginning but not decreased while reclaim is making
progress which leads to subsequent calls to shrink_inactive_list()
reclaiming way too much in the one iteration that is done unconditionally.

Set sc->swap_cluster_max always to the proper goal before doing
  shrink_all_zones()
    shrink_list()
      shrink_inactive_list().

While the current shrink_all_memory() happily reclaims more than actually
requested, this patch fixes it to never exceed the goal:

unpatched
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=13356
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=19711
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10289
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=17306
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10700
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10004
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=13301
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10976
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10605
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10088
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=15000

patched
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=9599
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=8476
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=8326
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=9919
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=9624
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=8500 reclaimed=8092
   wanted=316 reclaimed=316

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:12 -07:00
MinChan Kim d979677c4c mm: shrink_all_memory(): use sc.nr_reclaimed
Commit a79311c14e "vmscan: bail out of
direct reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages" moved the nr_reclaimed
counter into the scan control to accumulate the number of all reclaimed
pages in a reclaim invocation.

shrink_all_memory() can use the same mechanism. it increase code
consistency and redability.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:12 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro ee99c71c59 mm: introduce for_each_populated_zone() macro
Impact: cleanup

In almost cases, for_each_zone() is used with populated_zone().  It's
because almost function doesn't need memoryless node information.
Therefore, for_each_populated_zone() can help to make code simplify.

This patch has no functional change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
Johannes Weiner a6dc60f897 vmscan: rename sc.may_swap to may_unmap
sc.may_swap does not only influence reclaiming of anon pages but pages
mapped into pagetables in general, which also includes mapped file pages.

In shrink_page_list():

		if (!sc->may_swap && page_mapped(page))
			goto keep_locked;

For anon pages, this makes sense as they are always mapped and reclaiming
them always requires swapping.

But mapped file pages are skipped here as well and it has nothing to do
with swapping.

The real effect of the knob is whether mapped pages are unmapped and
reclaimed or not.  Rename it to `may_unmap' to have its name match its
actual meaning more precisely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c4e1aa67ed Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits)
  lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc
  lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB
  lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix
  lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING
  lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging
  lockdep: use stringify.h
  lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq()
  lockdep: get_user_chars() redo
  lockdep: simplify get_user_chars()
  lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks()
  lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3
  lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: generate usage strings
  lockdep: generate the state bit definitions
  ...
2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura 1d885526f2 vmscan: pgmoved should be cleared after updating recent_rotated
pgmoved should be cleared after updating recent_rotated.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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>
2009-03-14 11:57:22 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro f272b7bc44 memcg: use correct scan number at reclaim
Even when page reclaim is under mem_cgroup, # of scan page is determined by
status of global LRU. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-12 16:20:24 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 0cb57258fe swsusp: clean up shrink_all_zones()
Move local variables to innermost possible scopes and use local
variables to cache calculations/reads done more than once.

No change in functionality (intended).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21 14:17:17 -08:00
Johannes Weiner 3049103ddf swsusp: dont fiddle with swappiness
sc.swappiness is not used in the swsusp memory shrinking path, do not
set it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21 14:17:17 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 6700ec65c2 lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix
Impact: fix build warning

Fix:

  mm/vmscan.c: In function ‘kswapd’:
  mm/vmscan.c:1969: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

node_to_cpumask_ptr(cpumask, pgdat->node_id), has a side-effect: it
defines the 'cpumask' local variable as well, so it has to go into
the variable definition section.

Sidenote: it might make sense to make this purpose of these macros
more apparent, by naming them the standard way, such as:

  DEFINE_node_to_cpumask_ptr(cpumask, pgdat->node_id);

(But that is outside the scope of this patch.)

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15 21:22:48 +01:00
Nick Piggin cf40bd16fd lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS)
Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and
added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing
to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator
in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too).

Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer
to merge worthy ;)

--
After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS
allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to
try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep.

I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to
actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark
it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common
(and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some
improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's
interrupt contexts).

I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and
even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly
code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes.

It *seems* to work. I did a quick test.

=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26
---------------------------------
inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage.
modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
 (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd]
{in-reclaim-W} state was registered at:
  [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60
  [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310
  [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd]
  [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170
  [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0
  [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
irq event stamp: 3929
hardirqs last  enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310
hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310
softirqs last  enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0
softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by modprobe/8526:
 #0:  (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd]

stack backtrace:
Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0
 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0
 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60
 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580
 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310
 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170
 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10
 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180
 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190
 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0
 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-14 23:27:49 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro c772be939e memcg: fix calculation of active_ratio
Currently, inactive_ratio of memcg is calculated at setting limit.
because page_alloc.c does so and current implementation is straightforward
porting.

However, memcg introduced hierarchy feature recently.  In hierarchy
restriction, memory limit is not only decided memory.limit_in_bytes of
current cgroup, but also parent limit and sibling memory usage.

Then, The optimal inactive_ratio is changed frequently.  So, everytime
calculation is better.

Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:09 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro a7885eb8ad memcg: swappiness
Currently, /proc/sys/vm/swappiness can change swappiness ratio for global
reclaim.  However, memcg reclaim doesn't have tuning parameter for itself.

In general, the optimal swappiness depend on workload.  (e.g.  hpc
workload need to low swappiness than the others.)

Then, per cgroup swappiness improve administrator tunability.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki e72e2bd674 memcg: rename scan global lru
Rename scan_global_lru() to scanning_global_lru().

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 9439c1c95b memcg: remove mem_cgroup_cal_reclaim()
Now, get_scan_ratio() return correct value although memcg reclaim.  Then,
mem_cgroup_calc_reclaim() can be removed.

So, memcg reclaim get the same capability of anon/file reclaim balancing
as global reclaim now.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 3e2f41f1f6 memcg: add zone_reclaim_stat
Introduce mem_cgroup_per_zone::reclaim_stat member and its statics
collecting function.

Now, get_scan_ratio() can calculate correct value on memcg reclaim.

[hugh@veritas.com: avoid reclaim_stat oops when disabled]
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro a3d8e0549d memcg: add mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages()
Introduce mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages().  It is called by zone_nr_pages()
helper function.

This patch doesn't have any behavior change.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 14797e2363 memcg: add inactive_anon_is_low()
The inactive_anon_is_low() is key component of active/inactive anon
balancing on reclaim.  However current inactive_anon_is_low() function
only consider global reclaim.

Therefore, we need following ugly scan_global_lru() condition.

	if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_ANON &&
	    (!scan_global_lru(sc) || inactive_anon_is_low(zone))) {
		shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
		return 0;

it cause that memcg reclaim always deactivate pages when shrink_list() is
called.  To make mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low() improve active/inactive
anon balancing of memcgroup.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro eeee9a8cd1 mm: make get_scan_ratio() safe for memcg
Currently, get_scan_ratio() always calculate the balancing value for
global reclaim and memcg reclaim doesn't use it.  Therefore it doesn't
have scan_global_lru() condition.

However, we plan to expand get_scan_ratio() to be usable for memcg too,
latter.  Then, The dependency code of global reclaim in the
get_scan_ratio() insert into scan_global_lru() condision explictly.

This patch doesn't have any functional change.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:07 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro c9f299d986 mm: add zone nr_pages helper function
Add zone_nr_pages() helper function.

It is used by a later patch.  This patch doesn't have any functional
change.

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:07 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 6e9015716a mm: introduce zone_reclaim struct
Add zone_reclam_stat struct for later enhancement.

A later patch uses this.  This patch doesn't any behavior change (yet).

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:07 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro f89eb90e33 inactive_anon_is_low: move to vmscan
The inactive_anon_is_low() is called only vmscan.  Then it can move to
vmscan.c

This patch doesn't have any functional change.

Reviewd-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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>
2009-01-08 08:31:07 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 08e552c69c memcg: synchronized LRU
A big patch for changing memcg's LRU semantics.

Now,
  - page_cgroup is linked to mem_cgroup's its own LRU (per zone).

  - LRU of page_cgroup is not synchronous with global LRU.

  - page and page_cgroup is one-to-one and statically allocated.

  - To find page_cgroup is on what LRU, you have to check pc->mem_cgroup as
    - lru = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc, nid_of_pc, zid_of_pc);

  - SwapCache is handled.

And, when we handle LRU list of page_cgroup, we do following.

	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
	lock_page_cgroup(pc); .....................(1)
	mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
	spin_lock(&mz->lru_lock);
	.....add to LRU
	spin_unlock(&mz->lru_lock);
	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);

But (1) is spin_lock and we have to be afraid of dead-lock with zone->lru_lock.
So, trylock() is used at (1), now. Without (1), we can't trust "mz" is correct.

This is a trial to remove this dirty nesting of locks.
This patch changes mz->lru_lock to be zone->lru_lock.
Then, above sequence will be written as

        spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU
	mem_cgroup_add/remove/etc_lru() {
		pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
		mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
		if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
			....add to LRU
		}
        spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU

This is much simpler.
(*) We're safe even if we don't take lock_page_cgroup(pc). Because..
    1. When pc->mem_cgroup can be modified.
       - at charge.
       - at account_move().
    2. at charge
       the PCG_USED bit is not set before pc->mem_cgroup is fixed.
    3. at account_move()
       the page is isolated and not on LRU.

Pros.
  - easy for maintenance.
  - memcg can make use of laziness of pagevec.
  - we don't have to duplicated LRU/Active/Unevictable bit in page_cgroup.
  - LRU status of memcg will be synchronized with global LRU's one.
  - # of locks are reduced.
  - account_move() is simplified very much.
Cons.
  - may increase cost of LRU rotation.
    (no impact if memcg is not configured.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 8c7c6e34a1 memcg: mem+swap controller core
This patch implements per cgroup limit for usage of memory+swap.  However
there are SwapCache, double counting of swap-cache and swap-entry is
avoided.

Mem+Swap controller works as following.
  - memory usage is limited by memory.limit_in_bytes.
  - memory + swap usage is limited by memory.memsw_limit_in_bytes.

This has following benefits.
  - A user can limit total resource usage of mem+swap.

    Without this, because memory resource controller doesn't take care of
    usage of swap, a process can exhaust all the swap (by memory leak.)
    We can avoid this case.

    And Swap is shared resource but it cannot be reclaimed (goes back to memory)
    until it's used. This characteristic can be trouble when the memory
    is divided into some parts by cpuset or memcg.
    Assume group A and group B.
    After some application executes, the system can be..

    Group A -- very large free memory space but occupy 99% of swap.
    Group B -- under memory shortage but cannot use swap...it's nearly full.

    Ability to set appropriate swap limit for each group is required.

Maybe someone wonder "why not swap but mem+swap ?"

  - The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means
    to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of
    mem+swap.

    In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without affecting
    global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap.

Accounting target information is stored in swap_cgroup which is
per swap entry record.

Charge is done as following.
  map
    - charge  page and memsw.

  unmap
    - uncharge page/memsw if not SwapCache.

  swap-out (__delete_from_swap_cache)
    - uncharge page
    - record mem_cgroup information to swap_cgroup.

  swap-in (do_swap_page)
    - charged as page and memsw.
      record in swap_cgroup is cleared.
      memsw accounting is decremented.

  swap-free (swap_free())
    - if swap entry is freed, memsw is uncharged by PAGE_SIZE.

There are people work under never-swap environments and consider swap as
something bad. For such people, this mem+swap controller extension is just an
overhead.  This overhead is avoided by config or boot option.
(see Kconfig. detail is not in this patch.)

TODO:
 - maybe more optimization can be don in swap-in path. (but not very safe.)
   But we just do simple accounting at this stage.

[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: make resize limit hold mutex]
[hugh@veritas.com: memswap controller core swapcache fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 73ce02e96f mm: stop kswapd's infinite loop at high order allocation
Wassim Dagash reported following kswapd infinite loop problem.

  kswapd runs in some infinite loop trying to swap until order 10 of zone
  highmem is OK.... kswapd will continue to try to balance order 10 of zone
  highmem forever (or until someone release a very large chunk of highmem).

For non order-0 allocations, the system may never be balanced due to
fragmentation but kswapd should not infinitely loop as a result.

Instead, recheck all watermarks at order-0 as they are the most important.
If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go back to sleep.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Reported-by: wassim dagash <wassim.dagash@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-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>
2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
Andrew Morton b555749aac vmscan: shrink_active_list(): reduce lru_lock hold time
These three statements manipulate local variables and do not need the lock
coverage.

Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 09f445e7f5 mm: kill zone_is_near_oom()
zone_is_near_oom() is unused.

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>
2009-01-06 15:59:06 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 01dbe5c9b1 vmscan: improve reclaim throughput to bail out patch
The vmscan bail out patch move nr_reclaimed variable to struct
scan_control.  Unfortunately, indirect access can easily happen cache
miss.

if heavy memory pressure happend, that's ok.
cache miss already plenty. it is not observable.

but, if memory pressure is lite, performance degression is obserbable.

I compared following three pattern (it was mesured 10 times each)

hackbench 125 process 3000
hackbench 130 process 3000
hackbench 135 process 3000

            2.6.28-rc6                       bail-out

	125	130	135		125	130	135
      ==============================================================
	71.866	75.86	81.274		93.414	73.254	193.382
	74.145	78.295	77.27		74.897	75.021	80.17
	70.305	77.643	75.855		70.134	77.571	79.896
	74.288	73.986	75.955		77.222	78.48	80.619
	72.029	79.947	78.312		75.128	82.172	79.708
	71.499	77.615	77.042		74.177	76.532	77.306
	76.188	74.471	83.562		73.839	72.43	79.833
	73.236	75.606	78.743		76.001	76.557	82.726
	69.427	77.271	76.691		76.236	79.371	103.189
	72.473	76.978	80.643		69.128	78.932	75.736

avg	72.545	76.767	78.534		76.017	77.03	93.256
std	1.89	1.71	2.41		6.29	2.79	34.16
min	69.427	73.986	75.855		69.128	72.43	75.736
max	76.188	79.947	83.562		93.414	82.172	193.382

about 4-5% degression.

Then, this patch introduces a temporary local variable.

result:

            2.6.28-rc6                       this patch

num	125	130	135		125	130	135
      ==============================================================
	71.866	75.86	81.274		67.302	68.269	77.161
	74.145	78.295	77.27   	72.616	72.712	79.06
	70.305	77.643	75.855  	72.475	75.712	77.735
	74.288	73.986	75.955  	69.229	73.062	78.814
	72.029	79.947	78.312  	71.551	74.392	78.564
	71.499	77.615	77.042  	69.227	74.31	78.837
	76.188	74.471	83.562  	70.759	75.256	76.6
	73.236	75.606	78.743  	69.966	76.001	78.464
	69.427	77.271	76.691  	69.068	75.218	80.321
	72.473	76.978	80.643  	72.057	77.151	79.068

avg	72.545	76.767	78.534 		70.425	74.2083	78.462
std 	1.89	1.71	2.41    	1.66	2.34	1.00
min 	69.427	73.986	75.855  	67.302	68.269	76.6
max 	76.188	79.947	83.562  	72.616	77.151	80.321

OK. the degression is disappeared.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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>
2009-01-06 15:59:06 -08:00
Rik van Riel a79311c14e vmscan: bail out of direct reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages
When the VM is under pressure, it can happen that several direct reclaim
processes are in the pageout code simultaneously.  It also happens that
the reclaiming processes run into mostly referenced, mapped and dirty
pages in the first round.

This results in multiple direct reclaim processes having a lower
pageout priority, which corresponds to a higher target of pages to
scan.

This in turn can result in each direct reclaim process freeing
many pages.  Together, they can end up freeing way too many pages.

This kicks useful data out of memory (in some cases more than half
of all memory is swapped out).  It also impacts performance by
keeping tasks stuck in the pageout code for too long.

A 30% improvement in hackbench has been observed with this patch.

The fix is relatively simple: in shrink_zone() we can check how many
pages we have already freed, direct reclaim tasks break out of the
scanning loop if they have already freed enough pages and have reached
a lower priority level.

We do not break out of shrink_zone() when priority == DEF_PRIORITY,
to ensure that equal pressure is applied to every zone in the common
case.

However, in order to do this we do need to know how many pages we already
freed, so move nr_reclaimed into scan_control.

akpm: a historical interlude...

We tried this in 2004:

:commit e468e46a9bea3297011d5918663ce6d19094cf87
:Author: akpm <akpm>
:Date:   Thu Jun 24 15:53:52 2004 +0000
:
:[PATCH] vmscan.c: dont reclaim too many pages
:
:    The shrink_zone() logic can, under some circumstances, cause far too many
:    pages to be reclaimed.  Say, we're scanning at high priority and suddenly hit
:    a large number of reclaimable pages on the LRU.
:    Change things so we bale out when SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed.

And we reverted it in 2006:

:commit 210fe53030
:Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
:Date:   Fri Jan 6 00:11:14 2006 -0800
:
:    [PATCH] vmscan: balancing fix
:
:    Revert a patch which went into 2.6.8-rc1.  The changelog for that patch was:
:
:      The shrink_zone() logic can, under some circumstances, cause far too many
:      pages to be reclaimed.  Say, we're scanning at high priority and suddenly
:      hit a large number of reclaimable pages on the LRU.
:
:      Change things so we bale out when SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been
:      reclaimed.
:
:    Problem is, this change caused significant imbalance in inter-zone scan
:    balancing by truncating scans of larger zones.
:
:    Suppose, for example, ZONE_HIGHMEM is 10x the size of ZONE_NORMAL.  The zone
:    balancing algorithm would require that if we're scanning 100 pages of
:    ZONE_HIGHMEM, we should scan 10 pages of ZONE_NORMAL.  But this logic will
:    cause the scanning of ZONE_HIGHMEM to bale out after only 32 pages are
:    reclaimed.  Thus effectively causing smaller zones to be scanned relatively
:    harder than large ones.
:
:    Now I need to remember what the workload was which caused me to write this
:    patch originally, then fix it up in a different way...

And we haven't demonstrated that whatever problem caused that reversion is
not being reintroduced by this change in 2008.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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>
2009-01-06 15:59:06 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 14b90b22ec mm: make scan_zone_unevictable_pages() static
sparse output following warning

	mm/vmscan.c:2507:6: warning: symbol 'scan_zone_unevictable_pages' was not declared. Should it be static?

cleanup here.

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>
2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro ff30153bf9 mm: make scan_all_zones_unevictable_pages() static
sparse output following warning.

	mm/vmscan.c:2549:6: warning: symbol 'scan_all_zones_unevictable_pages' was not declared. Should it be static?

cleanup here.

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>
2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 077cbc5864 memcg: reclaim shouldn't change zone->recent_rotated statistics
memcg reclaim shouldn't change zone->recent_rotated statistics.  If
memcgroup reclaim changes zone statistics, global reclaim can get a bit
confused.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 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>
2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
Hugh Dickins b962716b45 mm: optimize get_scan_ratio for no swap
Rik suggests a simplified get_scan_ratio() for !CONFIG_SWAP.  Yes, the gcc
optimizer gives us that, when nr_swap_pages is #defined as 0L.  Move usual
declaration to swapfile.c: it never belonged in page_alloc.c.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 60371d971a mm: add add_to_swap stub
If we add a failing stub for add_to_swap(), then we can remove the #ifdef
CONFIG_SWAP from mm/vmscan.c.

This was intended as a source cleanup, but looking more closely, it turns
out that the !CONFIG_SWAP case was going to keep_locked for an anonymous
page, whereas now it goes to the more suitable activate_locked, like the
CONFIG_SWAP nr_swap_pages 0 case.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
Hugh Dickins ac47b003d0 mm: remove gfp_mask from add_to_swap
Remove gfp_mask argument from add_to_swap(): it's misleading because its
only caller, shrink_page_list(), is not atomic at that point; and in due
course (implementing discard) we'll sometimes want to allocate some memory
with GFP_NOIO (as is used in swap_writepage) when allocating swap.

No change to the gfp_mask passed down to add_to_swap_cache(): still use
__GFP_HIGH without __GFP_WAIT (with nomemalloc and nowarn as before):
though it's not obvious if that's the best combination to ask for here.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 63d6c5ad7f mm: remove try_to_munlock from vmscan
An unfortunate feature of the Unevictable LRU work was that reclaiming an
anonymous page involved an extra scan through the anon_vma: to check that
the page is evictable before allocating swap, because the swap could not
be freed reliably soon afterwards.

Now try_to_free_swap() has replaced remove_exclusive_swap_page(), that's
not an issue any more: remove try_to_munlock() call from
shrink_page_list(), leaving it to try_to_munmap() to discover if the page
is one to be culled to the unevictable list - in which case then
try_to_free_swap().

Update unevictable-lru.txt to remove comments on the try_to_munlock() in
shrink_page_list(), and shorten some lines over 80 columns.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
Hugh Dickins a2c43eed83 mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page
remove_exclusive_swap_page(): its problem is in living up to its name.

It doesn't matter if someone else has a reference to the page (raised
page_count); it doesn't matter if the page is mapped into userspace
(raised page_mapcount - though that hints it may be worth keeping the
swap): all that matters is that there be no more references to the swap
(and no writeback in progress).

swapoff (try_to_unuse) has been removing pages from swapcache for years,
with no concern for page count or page mapcount, and we used to have a
comment in lookup_swap_cache() recognizing that: if you go for a page of
swapcache, you'll get the right page, but it could have been removed from
swapcache by the time you get page lock.

So, give up asking for exclusivity: get rid of
remove_exclusive_swap_page(), and remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref() and
remove_exclusive_swap_page_count() which were spawned for the recent LRU
work: replace them by the simpler try_to_free_swap() which just checks
page_swapcount().

Similarly, remove the page_count limitation from free_swap_and_count(),
but assume that it's worth holding on to the swap if page is mapped and
swap nowhere near full.  Add a vm_swap_full() test in free_swap_cache()?
It would be consistent, but I think we probably have enough for now.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
Rusty Russell 174596a0b9 cpumask: convert mm/
Impact: Use new API

Convert kernel mm functions to use struct cpumask.

We skip include/linux/percpu.h and mm/allocpercpu.c, which are in flux.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
Rusty Russell 3e59794538 cpumask: remove any_online_cpu() users: mm/
Impact: Remove obsolete API usage

any_online_cpu() is a good name, but it takes a cpumask_t, not a
pointer.

There are several places where any_online_cpu() doesn't really want a
mask arg at all.  Replace all callers with cpumask_any() and
cpumask_any_and().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-01 10:12:24 +10:30
Johannes Weiner 2a1dc50974 vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lock
The zone's rotation statistics must not be accessed without the
corresponding LRU lock held.  Fix an unprotected write in
shrink_active_list().

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 07:58:06 -08:00
Rik van Riel 00d8089c54 vmscan: fix get_scan_ratio() comment
Fix the old comment on the scan ratio calculations.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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>
2008-11-19 18:49:59 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 63eb6b93ce vmscan: let GFP_NOFS go to swap again
In the past, GFP_NOFS (but of course not GFP_NOIO) was allowed to reclaim
by writing to swap.  That got partially broken in 2.6.23, when may_enter_fs
initialization was moved up before the allocation of swap, so its
PageSwapCache test was failing the first time around,

Fix it by setting may_enter_fs when add_to_swap() succeeds with
__GFP_IO.  In fact, check __GFP_IO before calling add_to_swap():
allocating swap we're not ready to use just increases disk seeking.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:59 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 748f1a2ed7 mm: remove unevictable's show_page_path
Hugh Dickins reported show_page_path() is buggy and unsafe because

 - lack dput() against d_find_alias()
 - don't concern vma->vm_mm->owner == NULL
 - lack lock_page()

it was only for debugging, so rather than trying to fix it, just remove
it now.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-15 11:36:07 -08:00
Nick Piggin a978d6f521 mm: unlockless reclaim
unlock_page is fairly expensive.  It can be avoided in page reclaim
success path.  By definition if we have any other references to the page
it would be a bug anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-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>
2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
Johannes Weiner e0f79b8f1f vmscan: don't accumulate scan pressure on unrelated lists
During each reclaim scan we accumulate scan pressure on unrelated lists
which will result in bogus scans and unwanted reclaims eventually.

Scanning lists with few reclaim candidates results in a lot of rotation
and therefor also disturbs the list balancing, putting even more
pressure on the wrong lists.

In a test-case with much streaming IO, and therefor a crowded inactive
file page list, swapping started because

  a) anon pages were reclaimed after swap_cluster_max reclaim
  invocations -- nr_scan of this list has just accumulated

  b) active file pages were scanned because *their* nr_scan has also
  accumulated through the same logic.  And this in return created a
  lot of rotation for file pages and resulted in a decrease of file
  list priority, again increasing the pressure on anon pages.

The result was an evicted working set of anon pages while there were
tons of inactive file pages that should have been taken instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Reviewed-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>
2008-10-20 08:52:31 -07:00