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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-10-16 12:25:52 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 20:43:00 +0400
commite12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093 (patch)
treea0d3385b65f0b3e1e00b0bbf11b75e7538a93edb /fs/proc
parentc361be55b3128474aa66d31092db330b07539103 (diff)
downloadlinux-e12ba74d8ff3e2f73a583500d7095e406df4d093.tar.xz
Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c13
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/generic.c2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index e5d0953d4db1..78fdfea1a7f8 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_info_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
count = PROC_BLOCK_SIZE;
length = -ENOMEM;
- if (!(page = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)))
+ if (!(page = __get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY)))
goto out;
length = PROC_I(inode)->op.proc_read(task, (char*)page);
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
goto out;
ret = -ENOMEM;
- page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+ page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
if (!page)
goto out;
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
goto out;
copied = -ENOMEM;
- page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+ page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
if (!page)
goto out;
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_loginuid_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
/* No partial writes. */
return -EINVAL;
}
- page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+ page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
length = -EFAULT;
@@ -954,7 +954,8 @@ static int do_proc_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
char __user *buffer, int buflen)
{
struct inode * inode;
- char *tmp = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL), *path;
+ char *tmp = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
+ char *path;
int len;
if (!tmp)
@@ -1726,7 +1727,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_attr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
goto out;
length = -ENOMEM;
- page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+ page = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
if (!page)
goto out;
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index b5e7155d30d8..1bdb62435758 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ proc_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes,
nbytes = MAX_NON_LFS - pos;
dp = PDE(inode);
- if (!(page = (char*) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)))
+ if (!(page = (char*) __get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY)))
return -ENOMEM;
while ((nbytes > 0) && !eof) {