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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-07-17 15:03:05 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 21:22:59 +0400
commit769848c03895b63e5662eb7e4ec8c4866f7d0183 (patch)
tree8911c7c312c8b8b172795fa2874c8162e1d3d15a /mm
parenta32ea1e1f925399e0d81ca3f7394a44a6dafa12c (diff)
downloadlinux-769848c03895b63e5662eb7e4ec8c4866f7d0183.tar.xz
Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated
It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not. This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE. Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing storage and discarding. An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for __GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(). The flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would change the semantics of an existing API. After this patch is applied there are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should be marked deprecated if this patch is merged. Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the shmem_dir_alloc() helper function. This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of Hugh Dickens. Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the concept. Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector and ramfs allocations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup] 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 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c9
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c5
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c3
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c7
-rw-r--r--mm/swap_state.c3
5 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index b3d73bb1f680..9c6ff7fffdc8 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1715,11 +1715,11 @@ gotten:
if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
goto oom;
if (old_page == ZERO_PAGE(address)) {
- new_page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(vma, address);
+ new_page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(vma, address);
if (!new_page)
goto oom;
} else {
- new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, address);
+ new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
if (!new_page)
goto oom;
cow_user_page(new_page, old_page, address, vma);
@@ -2237,7 +2237,7 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
goto oom;
- page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(vma, address);
+ page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(vma, address);
if (!page)
goto oom;
@@ -2340,7 +2340,8 @@ retry:
if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
goto oom;
- page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, address);
+ page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
+ vma, address);
if (!page)
goto oom;
copy_user_highpage(page, new_page, address, vma);
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 188f8d9c4aed..4c0f99996811 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static void migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head *pagelist,
static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long node, int **x)
{
- return alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_HIGHUSER, 0);
+ return alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0);
}
/*
@@ -710,7 +710,8 @@ static struct page *new_vma_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int *
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma = (struct vm_area_struct *)private;
- return alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, page_address_in_vma(page, vma));
+ return alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma,
+ page_address_in_vma(page, vma));
}
#else
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index a91ca00abebe..34d8ada053e4 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -761,7 +761,8 @@ static struct page *new_page_node(struct page *p, unsigned long private,
*result = &pm->status;
- return alloc_pages_node(pm->node, GFP_HIGHUSER | GFP_THISNODE, 0);
+ return alloc_pages_node(pm->node,
+ GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | GFP_THISNODE, 0);
}
/*
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 0493e4d0bcaa..e49181d9d893 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -93,8 +93,11 @@ static inline struct page *shmem_dir_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask)
* The above definition of ENTRIES_PER_PAGE, and the use of
* BLOCKS_PER_PAGE on indirect pages, assume PAGE_CACHE_SIZE:
* might be reconsidered if it ever diverges from PAGE_SIZE.
+ *
+ * __GFP_MOVABLE is masked out as swap vectors cannot move
*/
- return alloc_pages(gfp_mask, PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT);
+ return alloc_pages((gfp_mask & ~__GFP_MOVABLE) | __GFP_ZERO,
+ PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT);
}
static inline void shmem_dir_free(struct page *page)
@@ -372,7 +375,7 @@ static swp_entry_t *shmem_swp_alloc(struct shmem_inode_info *info, unsigned long
}
spin_unlock(&info->lock);
- page = shmem_dir_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) | __GFP_ZERO);
+ page = shmem_dir_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping));
if (page)
set_page_private(page, 0);
spin_lock(&info->lock);
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index 925d5c50f18d..67daecb6031a 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry,
* Get a new page to read into from swap.
*/
if (!new_page) {
- new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, addr);
+ new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
+ vma, addr);
if (!new_page)
break; /* Out of memory */
}