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CMA: migrate mlocked pages

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Presently CMA cannot migrate mlocked pages so it ends up failing to allocate
contiguous memory space.

This patch makes mlocked pages be migrated out.  Of course, it can affect
realtime processes but in CMA usecase, contiguous memory allocation failing
is far worse than access latency to an mlocked page being variable while
CMA is running.  If someone wants to make the system realtime, he shouldn't
enable CMA because stalls can still happen at random times.

[[email protected]: tweak comment text, per Mel]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Minchan Kim 2012-10-08 16:33:48 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit e46a28790e
5 changed files with 12 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone)
* @cc: Compaction control structure.
* @low_pfn: The first PFN of the range.
* @end_pfn: The one-past-the-last PFN of the range.
* @unevictable: true if it allows to isolate unevictable pages
*
* Isolate all pages that can be migrated from the range specified by
* [low_pfn, end_pfn). Returns zero if there is a fatal signal
@ -476,7 +477,7 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone)
*/
unsigned long
isolate_migratepages_range(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc,
unsigned long low_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
unsigned long low_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn, bool unevictable)
{
unsigned long last_pageblock_nr = 0, pageblock_nr;
unsigned long nr_scanned = 0, nr_isolated = 0;
@ -602,6 +603,9 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc,
if (!cc->sync)
mode |= ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE;
if (unevictable)
mode |= ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE;
lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
/* Try isolate the page */
@ -807,7 +811,7 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
}
/* Perform the isolation */
low_pfn = isolate_migratepages_range(zone, cc, low_pfn, end_pfn);
low_pfn = isolate_migratepages_range(zone, cc, low_pfn, end_pfn, false);
if (!low_pfn || cc->contended)
return ISOLATE_ABORT;