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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2016-07-26 15:26:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 16:19:19 -0700
commitf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 (patch)
tree505f48a5a319e44b31bd810ed8b673f2bdb1cb88 /mm/Kconfig
parent4595ef88d136134a9470c955575640f5c96344ed (diff)
khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages
This patch extends khugepaged to support collapse of tmpfs/shmem pages. We share fair amount of infrastructure with anon-THP collapse. Few design points: - First we are looking for VMA which can be suitable for mapping huge page; - If the VMA maps shmem file, the rest scan/collapse operations operates on page cache, not on page tables as in anon VMA case. - khugepaged_scan_shmem() finds a range which is suitable for huge page. The scan is lockless and shouldn't disturb system too much. - once the candidate for collapse is found, collapse_shmem() attempts to create a huge page: + scan over radix tree, making the range point to new huge page; + new huge page is not-uptodate, locked and freezed (refcount is 0), so nobody can touch them until we say so. + we swap in pages during the scan. khugepaged_scan_shmem() filters out ranges with more than khugepaged_max_ptes_swap swapped out pages. It's HPAGE_PMD_NR/8 by default. + old pages are isolated, unmapped and put to local list in case to be restored back if collapse failed. - if collapse succeed, we retract pte page tables from VMAs where huge pages mapping is possible. The huge page will be mapped as PMD on next minor fault into the range. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-35-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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