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authorShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>2017-05-03 23:52:32 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-04 00:52:08 +0200
commit802a3a92ad7ac0b9be9df229dee530a1f0a8039b (patch)
tree31e84759f836bdb9a5e464316df3ea7f4c8891f5 /mm/huge_memory.c
parentmm: move MADV_FREE pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list (diff)
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mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages
When memory pressure is high, we free MADV_FREE pages. If the pages are not dirty in pte, the pages could be freed immediately. Otherwise we can't reclaim them. We put the pages back to anonumous LRU list (by setting SwapBacked flag) and the pages will be reclaimed in normal swapout way. We use normal page reclaim policy. Since MADV_FREE pages are put into inactive file list, such pages and inactive file pages are reclaimed according to their age. This is expected, because we don't want to reclaim too many MADV_FREE pages before used once pages. Based on Minchan's original patch [minchan@kernel.org: clean up lazyfree page handling] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303025237.GB3503@bbox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14b8eb1d3f6bf6cc492833f183ac8c304e560484.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 7309a716b7fc..08501a607b00 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1572,6 +1572,8 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, orig_pmd);
tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
}
+
+ mark_page_lazyfree(page);
ret = true;
out:
spin_unlock(ptl);