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2017-02-24z3fold: add kref refcountingVitaly Wool
With both coming and already present locking optimizations, introducing kref to reference-count z3fold objects is the right thing to do. Moreover, it makes buddied list no longer necessary, and allows for a simpler handling of headless pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214650.8ea78033d91ded233f552bc0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24z3fold: use per-page spinlockVitaly Wool
Most of z3fold operations are in-page, such as modifying z3fold page header or moving z3fold objects within a page. Taking per-pool spinlock to protect per-page objects is therefore suboptimal, and the idea of having a per-page spinlock (or rwlock) has been around for some time. This patch implements spinlock-based per-page locking mechanism which is lightweight enough to normally fit ok into the z3fold header. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214438.433e0a5fda908337b63206d3@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24z3fold: extend compaction functionVitaly Wool
z3fold_compact_page() currently only handles the situation when there's a single middle chunk within the z3fold page. However it may be worth it to move middle chunk closer to either first or last chunk, whichever is there, if the gap between them is big enough. This patch adds the relevant code, using BIG_CHUNK_GAP define as a threshold for middle chunk to be worth moving. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214334.c4f3eac9a477af0fa9a22c46@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24z3fold: fix header size related issuesVitaly Wool
Currently the whole kernel build will be stopped if the size of struct z3fold_header is greater than the size of one chunk, which is 64 bytes by default. This patch instead defines the offset for z3fold objects as the size of the z3fold header in chunks. Fixed also are the calculation of num_free_chunks() and the address to move the middle chunk to in case of in-page compaction in z3fold_compact_page(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131214057.d98677032bc7b1c6c59a80c9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24z3fold: make pages_nr atomicVitaly Wool
Convert pages_nr per-pool counter to atomic64_t. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170131213946.b828676ab17bbea42022c213@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexeszhong jiang
At present, Tying the first_num size to NCHUNKS_ORDER is confusing. the number of chunks is completely unrelated to the number of buddies. The patch limits the first_num to actual range of possible buddy indexes. and that is more reasonable and obvious without functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476776569-29504-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-03mm/z3fold.c: avoid modifying HEADLESS page and minor cleanupVitaly Wool
Fix erroneous z3fold header access in a HEADLESS page in reclaim function, and change one remaining direct handle-to-buddy conversion to use the appropriate helper. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5748706F.9020208@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20z3fold: the 3-fold allocator for compressed pagesVitaly Wool
This patch introduces z3fold, a special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical page. It is a ZBUD derivative which allows for higher compression ratio keeping the simplicity and determinism of its predecessor. This patch comes as a follow-up to the discussions at the Embedded Linux Conference in San-Diego related to the talk [1]. The outcome of these discussions was that it would be good to have a compressed page allocator as stable and deterministic as zbud with with higher compression ratio. To keep the determinism and simplicity, z3fold, just like zbud, always stores an integral number of compressed pages per page, but it can store up to 3 pages unlike zbud which can store at most 2. Therefore the compression ratio goes to around 2.6x while zbud's one is around 1.7x. The patch is based on the latest linux.git tree. This version has been updated after testing on various simulators (e.g. ARM Versatile Express, MIPS Malta, x86_64/Haswell) and basing on comments from Dan Streetman [3]. [1] https://openiotelc2016.sched.org/event/6DAC/swapping-and-embedded-compression-relieves-the-pressure-vitaly-wool-softprise-consulting-ou [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/21/799 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/852 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160509151753.ec3f9fda3c9898d31ff52a32@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>