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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2010-05-24 14:32:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -0700 |
| commit | 76ab0f530e4a01d4dc20cdc1d5e87753c579dc18 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e1566df85e02f67876685c36d217fec4845f79f /kernel | |
| parent | 748446bb6b5a9390b546af38ec899c868a9dbcf0 (diff) | |
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mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compaction
Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary value is
written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user of such a
trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target
application runs.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 4c93486b45d1..284f330d6a01 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ #include <linux/highuid.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> +#include <linux/compaction.h> #include <linux/hugetlb.h> #include <linux/initrd.h> #include <linux/key.h> @@ -1121,6 +1122,15 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = drop_caches_sysctl_handler, }, +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION + { + .procname = "compact_memory", + .data = &sysctl_compact_memory, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0200, + .proc_handler = sysctl_compaction_handler, + }, +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */ { .procname = "min_free_kbytes", .data = &min_free_kbytes, |