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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 440a733fe2e9..ff2ebe9458a3 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -46,8 +47,6 @@ struct scan_control {
/* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
unsigned long nr_scanned;
- unsigned long nr_mapped; /* From page_state */
-
/* This context's GFP mask */
gfp_t gfp_mask;
@@ -61,6 +60,8 @@ struct scan_control {
* In this context, it doesn't matter that we scan the
* whole list at once. */
int swap_cluster_max;
+
+ int swappiness;
};
/*
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ struct shrinker {
* From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
*/
int vm_swappiness = 60;
-static long total_memory;
+long vm_total_pages; /* The total number of pages which the VM controls */
static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
break;
if (shrink_ret < nr_before)
ret += nr_before - shrink_ret;
- mod_page_state(slabs_scanned, this_scan);
+ count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, this_scan);
total_scan -= this_scan;
cond_resched();
@@ -288,11 +289,23 @@ static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
unlock_page(page);
}
+/* possible outcome of pageout() */
+typedef enum {
+ /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
+ PAGE_KEEP,
+ /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
+ PAGE_ACTIVATE,
+ /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
+ PAGE_SUCCESS,
+ /* page is clean and locked */
+ PAGE_CLEAN,
+} pageout_t;
+
/*
* pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
* Calls ->writepage().
*/
-pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
+static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
{
/*
* If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
@@ -337,6 +350,8 @@ pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.nr_to_write = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
+ .range_start = 0,
+ .range_end = LLONG_MAX,
.nonblocking = 1,
.for_reclaim = 1,
};
@@ -554,7 +569,7 @@ keep:
list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
if (pagevec_count(&freed_pvec))
__pagevec_release_nonlru(&freed_pvec);
- mod_page_state(pgactivate, pgactivate);
+ count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate);
return nr_reclaimed;
}
@@ -644,11 +659,11 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long max_scan,
nr_reclaimed += nr_freed;
local_irq_disable();
if (current_is_kswapd()) {
- __mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgscan_kswapd, nr_scan);
- __mod_page_state(kswapd_steal, nr_freed);
+ __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scan);
+ __count_vm_events(KSWAPD_STEAL, nr_freed);
} else
- __mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgscan_direct, nr_scan);
- __mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgsteal, nr_freed);
+ __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone, nr_scan);
+ __count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, nr_freed);
if (nr_taken == 0)
goto done;
@@ -727,7 +742,9 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
* how much memory
* is mapped.
*/
- mapped_ratio = (sc->nr_mapped * 100) / total_memory;
+ mapped_ratio = ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) +
+ global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)) * 100) /
+ vm_total_pages;
/*
* Now decide how much we really want to unmap some pages. The
@@ -741,7 +758,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
* A 100% value of vm_swappiness overrides this algorithm
* altogether.
*/
- swap_tendency = mapped_ratio / 2 + distress + vm_swappiness;
+ swap_tendency = mapped_ratio / 2 + distress + sc->swappiness;
/*
* Now use this metric to decide whether to start moving mapped
@@ -824,11 +841,10 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
}
}
zone->nr_active += pgmoved;
- spin_unlock(&zone->lru_lock);
- __mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgrefill, pgscanned);
- __mod_page_state(pgdeactivate, pgdeactivate);
- local_irq_enable();
+ __count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL, zone, pgscanned);
+ __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, pgdeactivate);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
pagevec_release(&pvec);
}
@@ -957,9 +973,10 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones, gfp_t gfp_mask)
.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
.swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
.may_swap = 1,
+ .swappiness = vm_swappiness,
};
- inc_page_state(allocstall);
+ count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
struct zone *zone = zones[i];
@@ -972,7 +989,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones, gfp_t gfp_mask)
}
for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) {
- sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);
sc.nr_scanned = 0;
if (!priority)
disable_swap_token();
@@ -1021,10 +1037,6 @@ out:
* For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
* they are all at pages_high.
*
- * If `nr_pages' is non-zero then it is the number of pages which are to be
- * reclaimed, regardless of the zone occupancies. This is a software suspend
- * special.
- *
* Returns the number of pages which were actually freed.
*
* There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
@@ -1042,10 +1054,8 @@ out:
* the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging of pages is balanced
* across the zones.
*/
-static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long nr_pages,
- int order)
+static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
{
- unsigned long to_free = nr_pages;
int all_zones_ok;
int priority;
int i;
@@ -1055,16 +1065,15 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long nr_pages,
struct scan_control sc = {
.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
.may_swap = 1,
- .swap_cluster_max = nr_pages ? nr_pages : SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
+ .swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
+ .swappiness = vm_swappiness,
};
loop_again:
total_scanned = 0;
nr_reclaimed = 0;
sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
- sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);
-
- inc_page_state(pageoutrun);
+ count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
@@ -1082,31 +1091,26 @@ loop_again:
all_zones_ok = 1;
- if (nr_pages == 0) {
- /*
- * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
- * zone which needs scanning
- */
- for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
- struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
+ /*
+ * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
+ * zone which needs scanning
+ */
+ for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+ struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
- if (!populated_zone(zone))
- continue;
+ if (!populated_zone(zone))
+ continue;
- if (zone->all_unreclaimable &&
- priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
- continue;
+ if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
+ continue;
- if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
- zone->pages_high, 0, 0)) {
- end_zone = i;
- goto scan;
- }
+ if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, zone->pages_high,
+ 0, 0)) {
+ end_zone = i;
+ goto scan;
}
- goto out;
- } else {
- end_zone = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
}
+ goto out;
scan:
for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
@@ -1133,11 +1137,9 @@ scan:
if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
continue;
- if (nr_pages == 0) { /* Not software suspend */
- if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
- zone->pages_high, end_zone, 0))
- all_zones_ok = 0;
- }
+ if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, zone->pages_high,
+ end_zone, 0))
+ all_zones_ok = 0;
zone->temp_priority = priority;
if (zone->prev_priority > priority)
zone->prev_priority = priority;
@@ -1162,8 +1164,6 @@ scan:
total_scanned > nr_reclaimed + nr_reclaimed / 2)
sc.may_writepage = 1;
}
- if (nr_pages && to_free > nr_reclaimed)
- continue; /* swsusp: need to do more work */
if (all_zones_ok)
break; /* kswapd: all done */
/*
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ scan:
* matches the direct reclaim path behaviour in terms of impact
* on zone->*_priority.
*/
- if ((nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) && !nr_pages)
+ if (nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
break;
}
out:
@@ -1220,7 +1220,6 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
};
cpumask_t cpumask;
- daemonize("kswapd%d", pgdat->node_id);
cpumask = node_to_cpumask(pgdat->node_id);
if (!cpus_empty(cpumask))
set_cpus_allowed(tsk, cpumask);
@@ -1261,7 +1260,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
}
finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
- balance_pgdat(pgdat, 0, order);
+ balance_pgdat(pgdat, order);
}
return 0;
}
@@ -1290,35 +1289,152 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order)
#ifdef CONFIG_PM
/*
- * Try to free `nr_pages' of memory, system-wide. Returns the number of freed
- * pages.
+ * Helper function for shrink_all_memory(). Tries to reclaim 'nr_pages' pages
+ * from LRU lists system-wide, for given pass and priority, and returns the
+ * number of reclaimed pages
+ *
+ * For pass > 3 we also try to shrink the LRU lists that contain a few pages
+ */
+static unsigned long shrink_all_zones(unsigned long nr_pages, int pass,
+ int prio, struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+ struct zone *zone;
+ unsigned long nr_to_scan, ret = 0;
+
+ for_each_zone(zone) {
+
+ if (!populated_zone(zone))
+ continue;
+
+ if (zone->all_unreclaimable && prio != DEF_PRIORITY)
+ continue;
+
+ /* For pass = 0 we don't shrink the active list */
+ if (pass > 0) {
+ zone->nr_scan_active += (zone->nr_active >> prio) + 1;
+ if (zone->nr_scan_active >= nr_pages || pass > 3) {
+ zone->nr_scan_active = 0;
+ nr_to_scan = min(nr_pages, zone->nr_active);
+ shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc);
+ }
+ }
+
+ zone->nr_scan_inactive += (zone->nr_inactive >> prio) + 1;
+ if (zone->nr_scan_inactive >= nr_pages || pass > 3) {
+ zone->nr_scan_inactive = 0;
+ nr_to_scan = min(nr_pages, zone->nr_inactive);
+ ret += shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc);
+ if (ret >= nr_pages)
+ return ret;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Try to free `nr_pages' of memory, system-wide, and return the number of
+ * freed pages.
+ *
+ * Rather than trying to age LRUs the aim is to preserve the overall
+ * LRU order by reclaiming preferentially
+ * inactive > active > active referenced > active mapped
*/
unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages)
{
- pg_data_t *pgdat;
- unsigned long nr_to_free = nr_pages;
+ unsigned long lru_pages, nr_slab;
unsigned long ret = 0;
- unsigned retry = 2;
- struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
- .reclaimed_slab = 0,
+ int pass;
+ struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
+ struct zone *zone;
+ struct scan_control sc = {
+ .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
+ .may_swap = 0,
+ .swap_cluster_max = nr_pages,
+ .may_writepage = 1,
+ .swappiness = vm_swappiness,
};
current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
-repeat:
- for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
- unsigned long freed;
-
- freed = balance_pgdat(pgdat, nr_to_free, 0);
- ret += freed;
- nr_to_free -= freed;
- if ((long)nr_to_free <= 0)
+
+ lru_pages = 0;
+ for_each_zone(zone)
+ lru_pages += zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive;
+
+ nr_slab = global_page_state(NR_SLAB);
+ /* If slab caches are huge, it's better to hit them first */
+ while (nr_slab >= lru_pages) {
+ reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
+ shrink_slab(nr_pages, sc.gfp_mask, lru_pages);
+ if (!reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab)
break;
+
+ ret += reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab;
+ if (ret >= nr_pages)
+ goto out;
+
+ nr_slab -= reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab;
}
- if (retry-- && ret < nr_pages) {
- blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/5);
- goto repeat;
+
+ /*
+ * We try to shrink LRUs in 5 passes:
+ * 0 = Reclaim from inactive_list only
+ * 1 = Reclaim from active list but don't reclaim mapped
+ * 2 = 2nd pass of type 1
+ * 3 = Reclaim mapped (normal reclaim)
+ * 4 = 2nd pass of type 3
+ */
+ for (pass = 0; pass < 5; pass++) {
+ int prio;
+
+ /* Needed for shrinking slab caches later on */
+ if (!lru_pages)
+ for_each_zone(zone) {
+ lru_pages += zone->nr_active;
+ lru_pages += zone->nr_inactive;
+ }
+
+ /* Force reclaiming mapped pages in the passes #3 and #4 */
+ if (pass > 2) {
+ sc.may_swap = 1;
+ sc.swappiness = 100;
+ }
+
+ for (prio = DEF_PRIORITY; prio >= 0; prio--) {
+ unsigned long nr_to_scan = nr_pages - ret;
+
+ sc.nr_scanned = 0;
+ ret += shrink_all_zones(nr_to_scan, prio, pass, &sc);
+ if (ret >= nr_pages)
+ goto out;
+
+ reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
+ shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, sc.gfp_mask, lru_pages);
+ ret += reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab;
+ if (ret >= nr_pages)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (sc.nr_scanned && prio < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
+ blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ / 10);
+ }
+
+ lru_pages = 0;
}
+
+ /*
+ * If ret = 0, we could not shrink LRUs, but there may be something
+ * in slab caches
+ */
+ if (!ret)
+ do {
+ reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
+ shrink_slab(nr_pages, sc.gfp_mask, lru_pages);
+ ret += reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab;
+ } while (ret < nr_pages && reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab > 0);
+
+out:
current->reclaim_state = NULL;
+
return ret;
}
#endif
@@ -1328,7 +1444,7 @@ repeat:
not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
restore their cpu bindings. */
-static int cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
+static int __devinit cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
{
pg_data_t *pgdat;
@@ -1346,21 +1462,35 @@ static int cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
+/*
+ * This kswapd start function will be called by init and node-hot-add.
+ * On node-hot-add, kswapd will moved to proper cpus if cpus are hot-added.
+ */
+int kswapd_run(int nid)
+{
+ pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ if (pgdat->kswapd)
+ return 0;
+
+ pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
+ if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
+ /* failure at boot is fatal */
+ BUG_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING);
+ printk("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n",nid);
+ ret = -1;
+ }
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int __init kswapd_init(void)
{
- pg_data_t *pgdat;
+ int nid;
swap_setup();
- for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
- pid_t pid;
-
- pid = kernel_thread(kswapd, pgdat, CLONE_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(pid < 0);
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- pgdat->kswapd = find_task_by_pid(pid);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- }
- total_memory = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
+ for_each_online_node(nid)
+ kswapd_run(nid);
hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);
return 0;
}
@@ -1387,11 +1517,6 @@ int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
#define RECLAIM_SLAB (1<<3) /* Do a global slab shrink if the zone is out of memory */
/*
- * Mininum time between zone reclaim scans
- */
-int zone_reclaim_interval __read_mostly = 30*HZ;
-
-/*
* Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
* of a node considered for each zone_reclaim. 4 scans 1/16th of
* a zone.
@@ -1412,10 +1537,10 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
struct scan_control sc = {
.may_writepage = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE),
.may_swap = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP),
- .nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped),
.swap_cluster_max = max_t(unsigned long, nr_pages,
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
.gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
+ .swappiness = vm_swappiness,
};
disable_swap_token();
@@ -1456,16 +1581,6 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
p->reclaim_state = NULL;
current->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE);
-
- if (nr_reclaimed == 0) {
- /*
- * We were unable to reclaim enough pages to stay on node. We
- * now allow off node accesses for a certain time period before
- * trying again to reclaim pages from the local zone.
- */
- zone->last_unsuccessful_zone_reclaim = jiffies;
- }
-
return nr_reclaimed >= nr_pages;
}
@@ -1475,13 +1590,17 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
int node_id;
/*
- * Do not reclaim if there was a recent unsuccessful attempt at zone
- * reclaim. In that case we let allocations go off node for the
- * zone_reclaim_interval. Otherwise we would scan for each off-node
- * page allocation.
+ * Do not reclaim if there are not enough reclaimable pages in this
+ * zone that would satify this allocations.
+ *
+ * All unmapped pagecache pages are reclaimable.
+ *
+ * Both counters may be temporarily off a bit so we use
+ * SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX as the boundary. It may also be good to
+ * leave a few frequently used unmapped pagecache pages around.
*/
- if (time_before(jiffies,
- zone->last_unsuccessful_zone_reclaim + zone_reclaim_interval))
+ if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) -
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
return 0;
/*