Eric B Munson 5bbe3547aa mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages ... Currently, pages which are marked as unevictable are protected from compaction, but not from other types of migration. The POSIX real time extension explicitly states that mlock() will prevent a major page fault, but the spirit of this is that mlock() should give a process the ability to control sources of latency, including minor page faults. However, the mlock manpage only explicitly says that a locked page will not be written to swap and this can cause some confusion. The compaction code today does not give a developer who wants to avoid swap but wants to have large contiguous areas available any method to achieve this state. This patch introduces a sysctl for controlling compaction behavior with respect to the unevictable lru. Users who demand no page faults after a page is present can set compact_unevictable_allowed to 0 and users who need the large contiguous areas can enable compaction on locked memory by leaving the default value of 1. To illustrate this problem I wrote a quick test program that mmaps a large number of 1MB files filled with random data. These maps are created locked and read only. Then every other mmap is unmapped and I attempt to allocate huge pages to the static huge page pool. When the compact_unevictable_allowed sysctl is 0, I cannot allocate hugepages after fragmenting memory. When the value is set to 1, allocations succeed. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2015-04-15 16:35:17 -07:00
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kasan	kasan, module, vmalloc: rework shadow allocation for modules	2015-03-12 18:46:08 -07:00
backing-dev.c	Merge branch 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs	2015-02-17 16:12:34 -08:00
balloon_compaction.c	mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled	2014-10-29 16:33:15 -07:00
bootmem.c	mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat	2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
cleancache.c	cleancache: remove limit on the number of cleancache enabled filesystems	2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
cma.c	mm: cma: constify and use correct signness in mm/cma.c	2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
cma.h	mm: cma: allocation trigger	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
cma_debug.c	mm-cma-allocation-trigger-fix	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
compaction.c	mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages	2015-04-15 16:35:17 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c	mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable	2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
debug.c	mm: account pmd page tables to the process	2015-02-11 17:06:04 -08:00
dmapool.c	mm/dmapool.c: fixed a brace coding style issue	2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
early_ioremap.c	mm: create generic early_ioremap() support	2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c	vfs: remove get_xip_mem	2015-02-16 17:56:03 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c	Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)	2015-04-14 16:49:17 -07:00
frontswap.c	mm/frontswap.c: fix the condition in BUG_ON	2014-12-10 17:41:08 -08:00
gup.c	mm: move mm_populate()-related code to mm/gup.c	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
highmem.c	mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware	2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c	mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node	2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
hugetlb.c	mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed	2015-04-14 16:49:06 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c	mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse()	2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c	mm/hwpoison-inject.c: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive	2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h	mm/compaction: enhance compaction finish condition	2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
interval_tree.c	mm: replace vma->sharead.linear with vma->shared	2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
Kconfig	mm: cma: debugfs interface	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
Kconfig.debug	mm/debug_pagealloc: remove obsolete Kconfig options	2015-01-08 15:10:52 -08:00
kmemcheck.c	mm/slab_common: move kmem_cache definition to internal header	2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmemleak-test.c	mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging	2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
kmemleak.c	kmemleak: disable kasan instrumentation for kmemleak	2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
ksm.c	mm: remove rest usage of VM_NONLINEAR and pte_file()	2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
list_lru.c	memcg: reparent list_lrus and free kmemcg_id on css offline	2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c	vfs: remove get_xip_mem	2015-02-16 17:56:03 -08:00
Makefile	mm: move memtest under mm	2015-04-14 16:49:06 -07:00
memblock.c	mm/memblock.c: rename local variable of memblock_type to `type'	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
memcontrol.c	memcg: remove obsolete comment	2015-04-15 16:35:16 -07:00
memory-failure.c	mm/memory-failure.c: define page types for action_result() in one place	2015-04-15 16:35:16 -07:00
memory.c	mm: refactor do_wp_page handling of shared vma into a function	2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mm, hotplug: fix concurrent memory hot-add deadlock	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node	2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
mempool.c	mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing	2015-04-14 16:49:06 -07:00
memtest.c	memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses	2015-04-14 16:49:06 -07:00
migrate.c	mm/migrate: check-before-clear PageSwapCache	2015-04-15 16:35:17 -07:00
mincore.c	mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore()	2015-02-11 17:06:06 -08:00
mlock.c	mm: move mm_populate()-related code to mm/gup.c	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
mm_init.c	mm/mm_init.c: mark mminit_loglevel __meminitdata	2015-02-12 18:54:11 -08:00
mmap.c	mm: rename __mlock_vma_pages_range() to populate_vma_page_range()	2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
mmu_context.c	sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm	2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c	mmu_notifier: add the callback for mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()	2014-11-13 13:46:09 +11:00
mmzone.c	mm: microoptimize zonelist operations	2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
mprotect.c	mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault	2015-03-25 16:20:31 -07:00
mremap.c	fix mremap() vs. ioctx_kill() race	2015-04-06 17:50:59 -04:00
msync.c	mm: remove rest usage of VM_NONLINEAR and pte_file()	2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
nobootmem.c	mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat	2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
nommu.c	mm/nommu.c: export symbol max_mapnr	2015-03-12 18:46:08 -07:00
oom_kill.c	mm/oom_kill.c: fix typo in comment	2015-04-15 16:35:16 -07:00
page-writeback.c	mm/page-writeback: check-before-clear PageReclaim	2015-04-15 16:35:17 -07:00
page_alloc.c	mm/page_alloc.c: clean up comment	2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
page_counter.c	mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse()	2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
page_ext.c	mm/page_owner: keep track of page owners	2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
page_io.c	fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h	2015-03-25 20:28:11 -04:00
page_isolation.c	mm/page_alloc.c: call kernel_map_pages in unset_migrateype_isolate	2015-03-25 16:20:30 -07:00
page_owner.c	mm/page_owner.c: remove unnecessary stack_trace field	2015-02-11 17:06:07 -08:00
pagewalk.c	mm/pagewalk.c: prevent positive return value of walk_page_test() from being passed to callers	2015-03-25 16:20:30 -07:00
percpu-km.c	percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated	2014-09-02 14:46:05 -04:00
percpu-vm.c	percpu: move region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()	2014-09-02 14:46:02 -04:00
percpu.c	percpu: Fix trivial typos in comments	2015-03-24 13:41:54 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c	mm: convert p[te|md]_mknonnuma and remaining page table manipulations	2015-02-12 18:54:08 -08:00
process_vm_access.c	process_vm_access: switch to {compat_,}import_iovec()	2015-04-11 22:27:12 -04:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c	fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info	2015-01-20 14:03:04 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention	2015-03-25 16:20:30 -07:00
shmem.c	Merge branch 'iocb' into for-next	2015-04-11 22:24:41 -04:00
slab.c	mm: remove GFP_THISNODE	2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
slab.h	slub: make dead caches discard free slabs immediately	2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
slab_common.c	mm: slub: add kernel address sanitizer support for slub allocator	2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
slob.c	slob: make slob_alloc_node() static and remove EXPORT_SYMBOL()	2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
slub.c	slub: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0	2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations	2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c	mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))	2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap.c	Merge branch 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block	2015-02-12 13:50:21 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c	mm: page_cgroup: rename file to mm/swap_cgroup.c	2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
swap_state.c	fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info	2015-01-20 14:03:05 -07:00
swapfile.c	mm: page_cgroup: rename file to mm/swap_cgroup.c	2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
truncate.c	page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page()	2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
util.c	mm/util: add kstrdup_const	2015-02-13 21:21:35 -08:00
vmacache.c	mm,vmacache: count number of system-wide flushes	2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
vmalloc.c	mm: change vunmap to tear down huge KVA mappings	2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
vmpressure.c	mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()	2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
vmscan.c	Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)	2015-02-12 18:54:28 -08:00
vmstat.c	vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu	2015-02-11 17:06:07 -08:00
workingset.c	list_lru: add helpers to isolate items	2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
zbud.c	mm/zpool: add name argument to create zpool	2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
zpool.c	mm/zpool: add name argument to create zpool	2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
zsmalloc.c	mm/zsmalloc: add statistics support	2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
zswap.c	mm/zpool: add name argument to create zpool	2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00