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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> | 2009-12-14 17:59:24 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -0800 |
commit | 5ad6468801d28c4d4ac9f48ec19297817c915f6a (patch) | |
tree | edd8dc48693f43278d6fe1614aca2bf660d4dc10 /include/linux/rmap.h | |
parent | 73848b4684e84a84cfd1555af78d41158f31e16b (diff) | |
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ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rmap.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index 1f65af44c6d2..0b4913a4a344 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ static inline void page_dup_rmap(struct page *page) */ int page_referenced(struct page *, int is_locked, struct mem_cgroup *cnt, unsigned long *vm_flags); +int page_referenced_one(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, + unsigned long address, unsigned int *mapcount, unsigned long *vm_flags); + enum ttu_flags { TTU_UNMAP = 0, /* unmap mode */ TTU_MIGRATION = 1, /* migration mode */ @@ -102,6 +105,8 @@ enum ttu_flags { #define TTU_ACTION(x) ((x) & TTU_ACTION_MASK) int try_to_unmap(struct page *, enum ttu_flags flags); +int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, + unsigned long address, enum ttu_flags flags); /* * Called from mm/filemap_xip.c to unmap empty zero page |