SHM_LOCKED pages are unevictable

Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be
kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might
throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms.  Place them on the unevictable
LRU list instead.

Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared
memory regions as unevictable.  Then these pages will be culled off the
normal LRU lists during vmscan.

Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if
shared memory segment is munlocked.

Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in
the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now
that they're no longer locked.  If so, move them to the appropriate zone
lru list.

Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 09164d2c5c27..4b6c4d8d26b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -40,14 +40,20 @@ static inline void mapping_set_unevictable(struct address_space *mapping)
 	set_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &mapping->flags);
 }
 
+static inline void mapping_clear_unevictable(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	clear_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &mapping->flags);
+}
+
 static inline int mapping_unevictable(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
-	if (mapping && (mapping->flags & AS_UNEVICTABLE))
-		return 1;
-	return 0;
+	if (likely(mapping))
+		return test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &mapping->flags);
+	return !!mapping;
 }
 #else
 static inline void mapping_set_unevictable(struct address_space *mapping) { }
+static inline void mapping_clear_unevictable(struct address_space *mapping) { }
 static inline int mapping_unevictable(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 	return 0;