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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2012-01-21 02:34:19 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2012-01-26 04:13:59 +0400
commit2a4073c2bb288193f5e7a0d57e9cf2f9786dddc3 (patch)
treeda196fe75cf60c59c1daf72df6957fabc718d9ad /mm/vmscan.c
parent671f9c9e2ff7679ddcbc67572fd3e678843e725b (diff)
downloadlinux-2a4073c2bb288193f5e7a0d57e9cf2f9786dddc3.tar.xz
SHM_UNLOCK: fix long unpreemptible section
commit 85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417 upstream. scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() is used to make SysV SHM_LOCKed pages evictable again once the shared memory is unlocked. It does this with pagevec_lookup()s across the whole object (which might occupy most of memory), and takes 300ms to unlock 7GB here. A cond_resched() every PAGEVEC_SIZE pages would be good. However, KOSAKI-san points out that this is called under shmem.c's info->lock, and it's also under shm.c's shm_lock(), both spinlocks. There is no strong reason for that: we need to take these pages off the unevictable list soonish, but those locks are not required for it. So move the call to scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() from shmem.c's unlock handling up to shm.c's unlock handling. Remove the recently added barrier, not needed now we have spin_unlock() before the scan. Use get_file(), with subsequent fput(), to make sure we have a reference to mapping throughout scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(): that's something that was previously guaranteed by the shm_lock(). Remove shmctl's lru_add_drain_all(): we don't fault in pages at SHM_LOCK time, and we lazily discover them to be Unevictable later, so it serves no purpose for SHM_LOCK; and serves no purpose for SHM_UNLOCK, since pages still on pagevec are not marked Unevictable. The original code avoided redundant rescans by checking VM_LOCKED flag at its level: now avoid them by checking shp's SHM_LOCKED. The original code called scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() on a locked area at shm_destroy() time: perhaps we once had accounting cross-checks which required that, but not now, so skip the overhead and just let inode eviction deal with them. Put check_move_unevictable_page() and scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() under CONFIG_SHMEM (with stub for the TINY case when ramfs is used), more as comment than to save space; comment them used for SHM_UNLOCK. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f54a05b7a61d..824676a4ca75 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3353,6 +3353,7 @@ int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return 1;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
/**
* check_move_unevictable_page - check page for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
* @page: page to check evictability and move to appropriate lru list
@@ -3363,6 +3364,8 @@ int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
*
* Restrictions: zone->lru_lock must be held, page must be on LRU and must
* have PageUnevictable set.
+ *
+ * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
*/
static void check_move_unevictable_page(struct page *page, struct zone *zone)
{
@@ -3396,6 +3399,8 @@ retry:
*
* Scan all pages in mapping. Check unevictable pages for
* evictability and move them to the appropriate zone lru list.
+ *
+ * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
*/
void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
{
@@ -3441,9 +3446,14 @@ void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
pagevec_release(&pvec);
count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pg_scanned);
+ cond_resched();
}
-
}
+#else
+void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
static void warn_scan_unevictable_pages(void)
{