From e90309c9f7722db4ff5bce3b9e6e04d1460f2553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:54:33 -0800 Subject: thp: allow mlocked THP again Before THP refcounting rework, THP was not allowed to cross VMA boundary. So, if we have THP and we split it, PG_mlocked can be safely transferred to small pages. With new THP refcounting and naive approach to mlocking we can end up with this scenario: 1. we have a mlocked THP, which belong to one VM_LOCKED VMA. 2. the process does munlock() on the *part* of the THP: - the VMA is split into two, one of them VM_LOCKED; - huge PMD split into PTE table; - THP is still mlocked; 3. split_huge_page(): - it transfers PG_mlocked to *all* small pages regrardless if it blong to any VM_LOCKED VMA. We probably could munlock() all small pages on split_huge_page(), but I think we have accounting issue already on step two. Instead of forbidding mlocked pages altogether, we just avoid mlocking PTE-mapped THPs and munlock THPs on split_huge_pmd(). This means PTE-mapped THPs will be on normal lru lists and will be split under memory pressure by vmscan. After the split vmscan will detect unevictable small pages and mlock them. With this approach we shouldn't hit situation like described above. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Steve Capper Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/rmap.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/rmap.c') diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 84271cc39d1e..31d8866fb562 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -1282,6 +1282,9 @@ static void page_remove_anon_compound_rmap(struct page *page) nr = HPAGE_PMD_NR; } + if (unlikely(PageMlocked(page))) + clear_page_mlock(page); + if (nr) { __mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), NR_ANON_PAGES, -nr); deferred_split_huge_page(page); -- cgit