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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2016-01-15 16:55:42 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-15 17:56:32 -0800
commitb8d3c4c3009d42869dc03a1da0efc2aa687d0ab4 (patch)
treecb6f2ea3edac92a70426e1f2e332bac48d31db66 /include/linux/huge_mm.h
parent05ee26d9e7e29ab026995eab79be3c6e8351908c (diff)
mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called
We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called if [start, len] is aligned with THP size. The split could be done when VM decide to free it in reclaim path if memory pressure is heavy. With that, we could avoid unnecessary THP split. For the feature, this patch changes pte dirtness marking logic of THP. Now, it marks every ptes of pages dirty unconditionally in splitting, which makes MADV_FREE void. So, instead, this patch propagates pmd dirtiness to all pages via PG_dirty and restores pte dirtiness from PG_dirty. With this, if pmd is clean(ie, MADV_FREEed) when split happens(e,g, shrink_page_list), all of pages are clean too so we could discard them. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/huge_mm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/huge_mm.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index 72cd942edb22..0160201993d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ extern struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr,
pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned int flags);
+extern int madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long next);
extern int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr);