- 17 Jun, 2009 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
__GFP_NOFAIL is a bad fiction. Allocations _can_ fail, and callers should detect and suitably handle this (and not by lamely moving the infinite loop up to the caller level either). Attempting to use __GFP_NOFAIL for a higher-order allocation is even worse, so add a once-off runtime check for this to slap people around for even thinking about trying it. Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Magnus Damm authored
Since videobuf-dma-contig is designed to handle physically contiguous memory, this patch modifies the videobuf-dma-contig code to only accept a user space pointer to physically contiguous memory. For now only VM_PFNMAP vmas are supported, so forget hotplug. On SuperH Mobile we use this with our sh_mobile_ceu_camera driver together with various multimedia accelerator blocks that are exported to user space using UIO. The UIO kernel code exports physically contiguous memory to user space and lets the user space application mmap() this memory and pass a pointer using the USERPTR interface for V4L2 zero copy operation. With this approach we support zero copy capture, hardware scaling and various forms of hardware encoding and decoding. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Analoguous to follow_phys(), add a helper that looks up the PFN at a user virtual address in an IO mapping or a raw PFN mapping. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by:
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
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Johannes Weiner authored
A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an address from it to a pte. Signed-off-by:
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
The caller of setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio is an __init function. There is no need to keep the callee after it completed as well. Also fix a comment. Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
int_sqrt() returns 0 if its argument is zero so call it if only needed. Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
This effectively lifts the unit of updates to nr_inactive_* and pgdeactivate from PAGEVEC_SIZE=14 to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX=32, or MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES=1024 for reclaim_zone(). Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
The lru->nr_saved_scan's are not meaningful counters for even kernel developers. They typically are smaller than 32 and are always 0 for large lists. So remove them from /proc/zoneinfo. Hopefully this interface change won't break too many scripts. /proc/zoneinfo is too unstructured to be script friendly, and I wonder the affected scripts - if there are any - are still bleeding since the not long ago commit "vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets", which also touched the "scanned" line :) If we are to re-export accumulated vmscan counts in the future, they can go to new lines in /proc/zoneinfo instead of the current form, or to /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo? Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
The vmscan batching logic is twisting. Move it into a standalone function nr_scan_try_batch() and document it. No behavior change. Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
When the file LRU lists are dominated by streaming IO pages, evict those pages first, before considering evicting other pages. This should be safe from deadlocks or performance problems because only three things can happen to an inactive file page: 1) referenced twice and promoted to the active list 2) evicted by the pageout code 3) under IO, after which it will get evicted or promoted The pages freed in this way can either be reused for streaming IO, or allocated for something else. If the pages are used for streaming IO, this pageout pattern continues. Otherwise, we will fall back to the normal pageout pattern. Signed-off-by:
Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Add page-types, a handy tool for querying page flags. It will expand some of the overloaded flags: PG_slob_free = PG_private PG_slub_frozen = PG_active PG_slub_debug = PG_error PG_readahead = PG_reclaim and mask out obscure flags except in -raw mode: PG_reserved PG_mlocked PG_mappedtodisk PG_private PG_private_2 PG_owner_priv_1 PG_arch_1 PG_uncached PG_compound* for non hugeTLB pages [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Also add short descriptions for all of the 20 exported page flags. Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Some bit ranges were inclusive and some not. Fix them to be consistently inclusive. Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Export all page flags faithfully in /proc/kpageflags. 11. KPF_MMAP (pseudo flag) memory mapped page 12. KPF_ANON (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous) 13. KPF_SWAPCACHE page is in swap cache 14. KPF_SWAPBACKED page is swap/RAM backed 15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD (*) 16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL (*) 17. KPF_HUGE hugeTLB pages 18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable LRU list 19. KPF_HWPOISON(TBD) hardware detected corruption 20. KPF_NOPAGE (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address 32-39. more obscure flags for kernel developers (*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order. The accompanying page-types tool will handle the details like decoupling overloaded flags and hiding obscure flags to normal users. Thanks to KOSAKI and Andi for their valuable recommendations! Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Move increments of pfn/out to bottom of the loop. Signed-off-by:
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
A series of patches to enhance the /proc/pagemap interface and to add a userspace executable which can be used to present the pagemap data. Export 10 more flags to end users (and more for kernel developers): 11. KPF_MMAP (pseudo flag) memory mapped page 12. KPF_ANON (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous) 13. KPF_SWAPCACHE page is in swap cache 14. KPF_SWAPBACKED page is swap/RAM backed 15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD (*) 16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL (*) 17. KPF_HUGE hugeTLB pages 18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable LRU list 19. KPF_HWPOISON hardware detected corruption 20. KPF_NOPAGE (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address (*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order. a simple demo of the page-types tool # ./page-types -h page-types [options] -r|--raw Raw mode, for kernel developers -a|--addr addr-spec Walk a range of pages -b|--bits bits-spec Walk pages with specified bits -l|--list Show page details in ranges -L|--list-each Show page details one by one -N|--no-summary Don't show summay info -h|--help Show this usage message addr-spec: N one page at offset N (unit: pages) N+M pages range from N to N+M-1 N,M pages range from N to M-1 N, pages range from N to end ,M pages range from 0 to M bits-spec: bit1,bit2 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) != 0 bit1,bit2=bit1 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1 bit1,~bit2 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1 =bit1,bit2 flags == (bit1|bit2) bit-names: locked error referenced uptodate dirty lru active slab writeback reclaim buddy mmap anonymous swapcache swapbacked compound_head compound_tail huge unevictable hwpoison nopage reserved(r) mlocked(r) mappedtodisk(r) private(r) private_2(r) owner_private(r) arch(r) uncached(r) readahead(o) slob_free(o) slub_frozen(o) slub_debug(o) (r) raw mode bits (o) overloaded bits # ./page-types flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000000000 487369 1903 _________________________________ 0x0000000000000014 5 0 __R_D____________________________ referenced,dirty 0x0000000000000020 1 0 _____l___________________________ lru 0x0000000000000024 34 0 __R__l___________________________ referenced,lru 0x0000000000000028 3838 14 ___U_l___________________________ uptodate,lru 0x0001000000000028 48 0 ___U_l_______________________I___ uptodate,lru,readahead 0x000000000000002c 6478 25 __RU_l___________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru 0x000100000000002c 47 0 __RU_l_______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead 0x0000000000000040 8344 32 ______A__________________________ active 0x0000000000000060 1 0 _____lA__________________________ lru,active 0x0000000000000068 348 1 ___U_lA__________________________ uptodate,lru,active 0x0001000000000068 12 0 ___U_lA______________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x000000000000006c 988 3 __RU_lA__________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active 0x000100000000006c 48 0 __RU_lA______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x0000000000004078 1 0 ___UDlA_______b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x000000000000407c 34 0 __RUDlA_______b__________________ referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x0000000000000400 503 1 __________B______________________ buddy 0x0000000000000804 1 0 __R________M_____________________ referenced,mmap 0x0000000000000828 1029 4 ___U_l_____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,mmap 0x0001000000000828 43 0 ___U_l_____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000082c 382 1 __RU_l_____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap 0x000100000000082c 12 0 __RU_l_____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000000868 192 0 ___U_lA____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x0001000000000868 12 0 ___U_lA____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000086c 800 3 __RU_lA____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x000100000000086c 31 0 __RU_lA____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000004878 2 0 ___UDlA____M__b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked 0x0000000000001000 492 1 ____________a____________________ anonymous 0x0000000000005808 4 0 ___U_______Ma_b__________________ uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x0000000000005868 2839 11 ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x000000000000586c 30 0 __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked total 513968 2007 # ./page-types -r flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000000000 468002 1828 _________________________________ 0x0000000100000000 19102 74 _____________________r___________ reserved 0x0000000000008000 41 0 _______________H_________________ compound_head 0x0000000000010000 188 0 ________________T________________ compound_tail 0x0000000000008014 1 0 __R_D__________H_________________ referenced,dirty,compound_head 0x0000000000010014 4 0 __R_D___________T________________ referenced,dirty,compound_tail 0x0000000000000020 1 0 _____l___________________________ lru 0x0000000800000024 34 0 __R__l__________________P________ referenced,lru,private 0x0000000000000028 3794 14 ___U_l___________________________ uptodate,lru 0x0001000000000028 46 0 ___U_l_______________________I___ uptodate,lru,readahead 0x0000000400000028 44 0 ___U_l_________________d_________ uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk 0x0001000400000028 2 0 ___U_l_________________d_____I___ uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk,readahead 0x000000000000002c 6434 25 __RU_l___________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru 0x000100000000002c 47 0 __RU_l_______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead 0x000000040000002c 14 0 __RU_l_________________d_________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk 0x000000080000002c 30 0 __RU_l__________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,private 0x0000000800000040 8124 31 ______A_________________P________ active,private 0x0000000000000040 219 0 ______A__________________________ active 0x0000000800000060 1 0 _____lA_________________P________ lru,active,private 0x0000000000000068 322 1 ___U_lA__________________________ uptodate,lru,active 0x0001000000000068 12 0 ___U_lA______________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x0000000400000068 13 0 ___U_lA________________d_________ uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk 0x0000000800000068 12 0 ___U_lA_________________P________ uptodate,lru,active,private 0x000000000000006c 977 3 __RU_lA__________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active 0x000100000000006c 48 0 __RU_lA______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x000000040000006c 5 0 __RU_lA________________d_________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk 0x000000080000006c 3 0 __RU_lA_________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private 0x0000000c0000006c 3 0 __RU_lA________________dP________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private 0x0000000c00000068 1 0 ___U_lA________________dP________ uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private 0x0000000000004078 1 0 ___UDlA_______b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x000000000000407c 34 0 __RUDlA_______b__________________ referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x0000000000000400 538 2 __________B______________________ buddy 0x0000000000000804 1 0 __R________M_____________________ referenced,mmap 0x0000000000000828 1029 4 ___U_l_____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,mmap 0x0001000000000828 43 0 ___U_l_____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000082c 382 1 __RU_l_____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap 0x000100000000082c 12 0 __RU_l_____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000000868 192 0 ___U_lA____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x0001000000000868 12 0 ___U_lA____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000086c 800 3 __RU_lA____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x000100000000086c 31 0 __RU_lA____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000004878 2 0 ___UDlA____M__b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked 0x0000000000001000 492 1 ____________a____________________ anonymous 0x0000000000005008 2 0 ___U________a_b__________________ uptodate,anonymous,swapbacked 0x0000000000005808 4 0 ___U_______Ma_b__________________ uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x000000000000580c 1 0 __RU_______Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x0000000000005868 2839 11 ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x000000000000586c 29 0 __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked total 513968 2007 # ./page-types --raw --list --no-summary --bits reserved offset count flags 0 15 _____________________r___________ 31 4 _____________________r___________ 159 97 _____________________r___________ 4096 2067 _____________________r___________ 6752 2390 _____________________r___________ 9355 3 _____________________r___________ 9728 14526 _____________________r___________ This patch: Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages by their dedicated compound destructor functions. Also move prep_compound_gigantic_page() to hugetlb.c and make __free_pages_ok() non-static. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
alloc_large_system_hash() has logic for freeing pages at the end of an excessively large power-of-two buffer that is a duplicate of what is in alloc_pages_exact(). This patch converts alloc_large_system_hash() to use alloc_pages_exact(). Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Callers may speculatively call different allocators in order of preference trying to allocate a buffer of a given size. The order needed to allocate this may be larger than what the page allocator can normally handle. While the allocator mostly does the right thing, it should not direct reclaim or wakeup kswapd with a bogus order. This patch sanity checks the order in the slow path and returns NULL if it is too large. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, free_page_mlock() is only called from page_alloc.c. Thus, we can move it to page_alloc.c. Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
SLAB currently avoids checking a bitmap repeatedly by checking once and storing a flag. When the addition of nr_online_nodes as a cheaper version of num_online_nodes(), this check can be replaced by nr_online_nodes. (Christoph did a patch that this is lifted almost verbatim from) Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
num_online_nodes() is called in a number of places but most often by the page allocator when deciding whether the zonelist needs to be filtered based on cpusets or the zonelist cache. This is actually a heavy function and touches a number of cache lines. This patch stores the number of online nodes at boot time and updates the value when nodes get onlined and offlined. The value is then used in a number of important paths in place of num_online_nodes(). [rientjes@google.com: do not override definition of node_set_online() with macro] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Local interrupts are disabled when freeing pages to the PCP list. Part of that free checks what the migratetype of the pageblock the page is in but it checks this with interrupts disabled and interupts should never be disabled longer than necessary. This patch checks the pagetype with interrupts enabled with the impact that it is possible a page is freed to the wrong list when a pageblock changes type. As that block is now already considered mixed from an anti-fragmentation perspective, it's not of vital importance. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
When pages are being freed to the buddy allocator, the zone NR_FREE_PAGES counter must be updated. In the case of bulk per-cpu page freeing, it's updated once per page. This retouches cache lines more than necessary. Update the counters one per per-cpu bulk free. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW and ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH determin whether pages_min, pages_low or pages_high is used as the zone watermark when allocating the pages. Two branches in the allocator hotpath determine which watermark to use. This patch uses the flags as an array index into a watermark array that is indexed with WMARK_* defines accessed via helpers. All call sites that use zone->pages_* are updated to use the helpers for accessing the values and the array offsets for setting. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
A number of sanity checks are made on each page allocation and free including that the page count is zero. page_count() checks for compound pages and checks the count of the head page if true. However, in these paths, we do not care if the page is compound or not as the count of each tail page should also be zero. This patch makes two changes to the use of page_count() in the free path. It converts one check of page_count() to a VM_BUG_ON() as the count should have been unconditionally checked earlier in the free path. It also avoids checking for compound pages. [mel@csn.ul.ie: Wrote changelog] Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Reviewed-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
There is a zonelist cache which is used to track zones that are not in the allowed cpuset or found to be recently full. This is to reduce cache footprint on large machines. On smaller machines, it just incurs cost for no gain. This patch only uses the zonelist cache when there are NUMA nodes. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
free_page_mlock() tests and clears PG_mlocked using locked versions of the bit operations. If set, it disables interrupts to update counters and this happens on every page free even though interrupts are disabled very shortly afterwards a second time. This is wasteful. This patch splits what free_page_mlock() does. The bit check is still made. However, the update of counters is delayed until the interrupts are disabled and the non-lock version for clearing the bit is used. One potential weirdness with this split is that the counters do not get updated if the bad_page() check is triggered but a system showing bad pages is getting screwed already. Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
get_pageblock_migratetype() is potentially called twice for every page free. Once, when being freed to the pcp lists and once when being freed back to buddy. When freeing from the pcp lists, it is known what the pageblock type was at the time of free so use it rather than rechecking. In low memory situations under memory pressure, this might skew anti-fragmentation slightly but the interference is minimal and decisions that are fragmenting memory are being made anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
__rmqueue_fallback() is in the slow path but has only one call site. Because there is only one call-site, this function can then be inlined without causing text bloat. On an x86-based config, it made no difference as the savings were padded out by NOP instructions. Milage varies but text will either decrease in size or remain static. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
buffered_rmqueue() is in the fast path so inline it. Because it only has one call site, this function can then be inlined without causing text bloat. On an x86-based config, it made no difference as the savings were padded out by NOP instructions. Milage varies but text will either decrease in size or remain static. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Inline __rmqueue_smallest by altering flow very slightly so that there is only one call site. Because there is only one call-site, this function can then be inlined without causing text bloat. On an x86-based config, this patch reduces text by 16 bytes. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Allocations that specify __GFP_HIGH get the ALLOC_HIGH flag. If these flags are equal to each other, we can eliminate a branch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Suggested the hack] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Factor out the mapping between GFP and alloc_flags only once. Once factored out, it only needs to be calculated once but some care must be taken. [neilb@suse.de says] As the test: - if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) - && !in_interrupt()) { - if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) { has been replaced with a slightly weaker one: + if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) { Without care, this would allow recursion into the allocator via direct reclaim. This patch ensures we do not recurse when PF_MEMALLOC is set but TF_MEMDIE callers are now allowed to directly reclaim where they would have been prevented in the past. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
GFP mask is converted into a migratetype when deciding which pagelist to take a page from. However, it is happening multiple times per allocation, at least once per zone traversed. Calculate it once. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
get_page_from_freelist() can be called multiple times for an allocation. Part of this calculates the preferred_zone which is the first usable zone in the zonelist but the zone depends on the GFP flags specified at the beginning of the allocation call. This patch calculates preferred_zone once. It's safe to do this because if preferred_zone is NULL at the start of the call, no amount of direct reclaim or other actions will change the fact the allocation will fail. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove (void) casts] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as there is nothing it can do and it would just incur overhead shuffling pages between lists constantly. Currently the check is made in the free page fast path for every page. This patch moves it to a slow path. On machines with low memory, there will be small amount of additional overhead as pages get shuffled between lists but it should quickly settle. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The core of the page allocator is one giant function which allocates memory on the stack and makes calculations that may not be needed for every allocation. This patch breaks up the allocator path into fast and slow paths for clarity. Note the slow paths are still inlined but the entry is marked unlikely. If they were not inlined, it actally increases text size to generate the as there is only one call site. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
It is possible with __GFP_THISNODE that no zones are suitable. This patch makes sure the check is only made once. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean "allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then converted. Signed-off-by:
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