mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:55:42 +0000 (16:55 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:56:32 +0000 (17:56 -0800)
commitb8d3c4c3009d42869dc03a1da0efc2aa687d0ab4
treecb6f2ea3edac92a70426e1f2e332bac48d31db66
parent05ee26d9e7e29ab026995eab79be3c6e8351908c
mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called

We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called if
[start, len] is aligned with THP size.  The split could be done when VM
decide to free it in reclaim path if memory pressure is heavy.  With
that, we could avoid unnecessary THP split.

For the feature, this patch changes pte dirtness marking logic of THP.
Now, it marks every ptes of pages dirty unconditionally in splitting,
which makes MADV_FREE void.  So, instead, this patch propagates pmd
dirtiness to all pages via PG_dirty and restores pte dirtiness from
PG_dirty.  With this, if pmd is clean(ie, MADV_FREEed) when split
happens(e,g, shrink_page_list), all of pages are clean too so we could
discard them.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/huge_mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/madvise.c