linux-stable.git/include/linux/mmzone.h, branch linux-2.6.30.y

[ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2

2009-05-18T10:22:24+00:00

pfn_valid() is meant to be able to tell if a given PFN has valid memmap
associated with it or not. In FLATMEM, it is expected that holes always
have valid memmap as long as there is valid PFNs either side of the hole.
In SPARSEMEM, it is assumed that a valid section has a memmap for the
entire section.

However, ARM and maybe other embedded architectures in the future free
memmap backing holes to save memory on the assumption the memmap is never
used. The page_zone linkages are then broken even though pfn_valid()
returns true. A walker of the full memmap must then do this additional
check to ensure the memmap they are looking at is sane by making sure the
zone and PFN linkages are still valid. This is expensive, but walkers of
the full memmap are extremely rare.

This was caught before for FLATMEM and hacked around but it hits again for
SPARSEMEM because the page_zone linkages can look ok where the PFN linkages
are totally screwed. This looks like a hatchet job but the reality is that
any clean solution would end up consumning all the memory saved by punching
these unexpected holes in the memmap. For example, we tried marking the
memmap within the section invalid but the section size exceeds the size of
the hole in most cases so pfn_valid() starts returning false where valid
memmap exists. Shrinking the size of the section would increase memory
consumption offsetting the gains.

This patch identifies when an architecture is punching unexpected holes
in the memmap that the memory model cannot automatically detect and sets
ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL. At the moment, this is restricted to EP93xx
which is the model sub-architecture this has been reported on but may expand
later. When set, walkers of the full memmap must call memmap_valid_within()
for each PFN and passing in what it expects the page and zone to be for
that PFN. If it finds the linkages to be broken, it assumes the memmap is
invalid for that PFN.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask

2009-04-05T17:33:07+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits)
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance
  x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus
  x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed
  x86: microcode: cleanup
  x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
  cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses.
  cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others.
  cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain()
  cpumask: make Xen use the new operators.
  cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions
  cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86
  x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask
  cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map
  ...

mm: introduce for_each_populated_zone() macro

2009-04-01T15:59:11+00:00

Impact: cleanup

In almost cases, for_each_zone() is used with populated_zone().  It's
because almost function doesn't need memoryless node information.
Therefore, for_each_populated_zone() can help to make code simplify.

This patch has no functional change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h

2009-03-13T13:35:31+00:00

Impact: cleanup, potential bugfix

Not sure what changed to expose this, but clearly that numa_node_id()
doesn't belong in mmzone.h (the inline in gfp.h is probably overkill, too).

In file included from include/linux/topology.h:34,
                 from arch/x86/mm/numa.c:2:
/home/rusty/patches-cpumask/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h:64:1: warning: "numa_node_id" redefined
In file included from include/linux/topology.h:32,
                 from arch/x86/mm/numa.c:2:
include/linux/mmzone.h:770:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Mike Travis 
LKML-Reference: <200903132343.37661.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: fix memmap init for handling memory hole

2009-02-18T23:37:55+00:00

Now, early_pfn_in_nid(PFN, NID) may returns false if PFN is a hole.
and memmap initialization was not done. This was a trouble for
sparc boot.

To fix this, the PFN should be initialized and marked as PG_reserved.
This patch changes early_pfn_in_nid() return true if PFN is a hole.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reported-by: David Miller 
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: 		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce zone_reclaim struct

2009-01-08T16:31:07+00:00

Add zone_reclam_stat struct for later enhancement.

A later patch uses this.  This patch doesn't any behavior change (yet).

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: allocate all page_cgroup at boot

2008-10-20T15:52:39+00:00

Allocate all page_cgroup at boot and remove page_cgroup poitner from
struct page.  This patch adds an interface as

 struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page*)

All FLATMEM/DISCONTIGMEM/SPARSEMEM  and MEMORY_HOTPLUG is supported.

Remove page_cgroup pointer reduces the amount of memory by
 - 4 bytes per PAGE_SIZE.
 - 8 bytes per PAGE_SIZE
if memory controller is disabled. (even if configured.)

On usual 8GB x86-32 server, this saves 8MB of NORMAL_ZONE memory.
On my x86-64 server with 48GB of memory, this saves 96MB of memory.
I think this reduction makes sense.

By pre-allocation, kmalloc/kfree in charge/uncharge are removed.
This means
  - we're not necessary to be afraid of kmalloc faiulre.
    (this can happen because of gfp_mask type.)
  - we can avoid calling kmalloc/kfree.
  - we can avoid allocating tons of small objects which can be fragmented.
  - we can know what amount of memory will be used for this extra-lru handling.

I added printk message as

	"allocated %ld bytes of page_cgroup"
        "please try cgroup_disable=memory option if you don't want"

maybe enough informative for users.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmstat: mlocked pages statistics

2008-10-20T15:52:31+00:00

Add NR_MLOCK zone page state, which provides a (conservative) count of
mlocked pages (actually, the number of mlocked pages moved off the LRU).

Reworked by lts to fit in with the modified mlock page support in the
Reclaim Scalability series.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix incorrect Mlocked field of /proc/meminfo]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: mlocked-pages: add event counting with statistics]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn 
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Unevictable LRU Infrastructure

2008-10-20T15:50:26+00:00

When the system contains lots of mlocked or otherwise unevictable pages,
the pageout code (kswapd) can spend lots of time scanning over these
pages. Worse still, the presence of lots of unevictable pages can confuse
kswapd into thinking that more aggressive pageout modes are required,
resulting in all kinds of bad behaviour.

Infrastructure to manage pages excluded from reclaim--i.e., hidden from
vmscan. Based on a patch by Larry Woodman of Red Hat. Reworked to
maintain "unevictable" pages on a separate per-zone LRU list, to "hide"
them from vmscan.

Kosaki Motohiro added the support for the memory controller unevictable
lru list.

Pages on the unevictable list have both PG_unevictable and PG_lru set.
Thus, PG_unevictable is analogous to and mutually exclusive with
PG_active--it specifies which LRU list the page is on.

The unevictable infrastructure is enabled by a new mm Kconfig option
[CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU.

A new function 'page_evictable(page, vma)' in vmscan.c tests whether or
not a page may be evictable. Subsequent patches will add the various
!evictable tests. We'll want to keep these tests light-weight for use in
shrink_active_list() and, possibly, the fault path.

To avoid races between tasks putting pages [back] onto an LRU list and
tasks that might be moving the page from non-evictable to evictable state,
the new function 'putback_lru_page()' -- inverse to 'isolate_lru_page()'
-- tests the "evictability" of a page after placing it on the LRU, before
dropping the reference. If the page has become unevictable,
putback_lru_page() will redo the 'putback', thus moving the page to the
unevictable list. This way, we avoid "stranding" evictable pages on the
unevictable list.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout from out-of-order merge]
[riel@redhat.com: fix UNEVICTABLE_LRU and !PROC_PAGE_MONITOR build]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: remove redundant mapping check]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: unevictable-lru-infrastructure: putback_lru_page()/unevictable page handling rework]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: kill unnecessary lock_page() in vmscan.c]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert migration change of unevictable lru infrastructure]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert to unevictable-lru-infrastructure-kconfig-fix.patch]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: restore patch failure of vmstat-unevictable-and-mlocked-pages-vm-events.patch]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Debugged-by: Benjamin Kidwell
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmscan: second chance replacement for anonymous pages

2008-10-20T15:50:25+00:00

We avoid evicting and scanning anonymous pages for the most part, but
under some workloads we can end up with most of memory filled with
anonymous pages.  At that point, we suddenly need to clear the referenced
bits on all of memory, which can take ages on very large memory systems.

We can reduce the maximum number of pages that need to be scanned by not
taking the referenced state into account when deactivating an anonymous
page.  After all, every anonymous page starts out referenced, so why
check?

If an anonymous page gets referenced again before it reaches the end of
the inactive list, we move it back to the active list.

To keep the maximum amount of necessary work reasonable, we scale the
active to inactive ratio with the size of memory, using the formula
active:inactive ratio = sqrt(memory in GB * 10).

Kswapd CPU use now seems to scale by the amount of pageout bandwidth,
instead of by the amount of memory present in the system.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix OOM with memcg]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: memcg: lru scan fix]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds