Commit 2729b9af authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] put shmem metadata in highmem

wli suffered OOMs because tmpfs was allocating GFP_USER, for its
metadata pages.  This patch allocates them GFP_HIGHUSER (default
mapping->gfp_mask) and uses atomic kmaps to access (KM_USER0 for upper
levels, KM_USER1 for lowest level).  shmem_unuse_inode and
shmem_truncate rewritten alike to avoid repeated maps and unmaps of the
same page: cr's truncate was much more elegant, but I couldn't quite
see how to convert it.

I do wonder whether this patch is a bloat too far for tmpfs, and even
non-highmem configs will be penalised by page_address overhead (perhaps
a further patch could get over that).  There is an attractive
alternative (keep swp_entry_ts in the existing radix-tree, no metadata
pages at all), but we haven't worked out an unhacky interface to that.
For now at least, let's give tmpfs highmem metadata a spin.
parent 03844e4b
......@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ struct shmem_inode_info {
spinlock_t lock;
unsigned long next_index;
swp_entry_t i_direct[SHMEM_NR_DIRECT]; /* for the first blocks */
void **i_indirect; /* indirect blocks */
struct page *i_indirect; /* indirect blocks */
unsigned long alloced; /* data pages allocated to file */
unsigned long swapped; /* subtotal assigned to swap */
unsigned long flags;
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