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author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2012-01-20 14:34:19 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-23 08:38:48 -0800 |
commit | 85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417 (patch) | |
tree | 9b80b31791e63520277617a5abe85692dc480cd0 /mm/vmscan.c | |
parent | cb78edfdcef5259ac9e9088bd63810d21299928d (diff) | |
download | lwn-85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417.tar.gz lwn-85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417.zip |
SHM_UNLOCK: fix long unpreemptible section
scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() is used to make SysV SHM_LOCKed pages
evictable again once the shared memory is unlocked. It does this with
pagevec_lookup()s across the whole object (which might occupy most of
memory), and takes 300ms to unlock 7GB here. A cond_resched() every
PAGEVEC_SIZE pages would be good.
However, KOSAKI-san points out that this is called under shmem.c's
info->lock, and it's also under shm.c's shm_lock(), both spinlocks.
There is no strong reason for that: we need to take these pages off the
unevictable list soonish, but those locks are not required for it.
So move the call to scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() from shmem.c's
unlock handling up to shm.c's unlock handling. Remove the recently
added barrier, not needed now we have spin_unlock() before the scan.
Use get_file(), with subsequent fput(), to make sure we have a reference
to mapping throughout scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(): that's something
that was previously guaranteed by the shm_lock().
Remove shmctl's lru_add_drain_all(): we don't fault in pages at SHM_LOCK
time, and we lazily discover them to be Unevictable later, so it serves
no purpose for SHM_LOCK; and serves no purpose for SHM_UNLOCK, since
pages still on pagevec are not marked Unevictable.
The original code avoided redundant rescans by checking VM_LOCKED flag
at its level: now avoid them by checking shp's SHM_LOCKED.
The original code called scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() on a locked
area at shm_destroy() time: perhaps we once had accounting cross-checks
which required that, but not now, so skip the overhead and just let
inode eviction deal with them.
Put check_move_unevictable_page() and scan_mapping_unevictable_pages()
under CONFIG_SHMEM (with stub for the TINY case when ramfs is used),
more as comment than to save space; comment them used for SHM_UNLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 2880396f7953..e097c1026b58 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3499,6 +3499,7 @@ int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma) return 1; } +#ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM /** * check_move_unevictable_page - check page for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list * @page: page to check evictability and move to appropriate lru list @@ -3509,6 +3510,8 @@ int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma) * * Restrictions: zone->lru_lock must be held, page must be on LRU and must * have PageUnevictable set. + * + * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK. */ static void check_move_unevictable_page(struct page *page, struct zone *zone) { @@ -3545,6 +3548,8 @@ retry: * * Scan all pages in mapping. Check unevictable pages for * evictability and move them to the appropriate zone lru list. + * + * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK. */ void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping) { @@ -3590,9 +3595,14 @@ void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping) pagevec_release(&pvec); count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pg_scanned); + cond_resched(); } - } +#else +void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping) +{ +} +#endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */ static void warn_scan_unevictable_pages(void) { |