vmscan: move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c

On large memory systems, the VM can spend way too much time scanning
through pages that it cannot (or should not) evict from memory.  Not only
does it use up CPU time, but it also provokes lock contention and can
leave large systems under memory presure in a catatonic state.

This patch series improves VM scalability by:

1) putting filesystem backed, swap backed and unevictable pages
   onto their own LRUs, so the system only scans the pages that it
   can/should evict from memory

2) switching to two handed clock replacement for the anonymous LRUs,
   so the number of pages that need to be scanned when the system
   starts swapping is bound to a reasonable number

3) keeping unevictable pages off the LRU completely, so the
   VM does not waste CPU time scanning them. ramfs, ramdisk,
   SHM_LOCKED shared memory segments and mlock()ed VMA pages
   are keept on the unevictable list.

This patch:

isolate_lru_page logically belongs to be in vmscan.c than migrate.c.

It is tough, because we don't need that function without memory migration
so there is a valid argument to have it in migrate.c.  However a
subsequent patch needs to make use of it in the core mm, so we can happily
move it to vmscan.c.

Also, make the function a little more generic by not requiring that it
adds an isolated page to a given list.  Callers can do that.

	Note that we now have '__isolate_lru_page()', that does
	something quite different, visible outside of vmscan.c
	for use with memory controller.  Methinks we need to
	rationalize these names/purposes.	--lts

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/memory_hotplug.c build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 1ff1a58e7c10..1fd4912a596c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -844,6 +844,51 @@ static unsigned long clear_active_flags(struct list_head *page_list)
 	return nr_active;
 }
 
+/**
+ * isolate_lru_page - tries to isolate a page from its LRU list
+ * @page: page to isolate from its LRU list
+ *
+ * Isolates a @page from an LRU list, clears PageLRU and adjusts the
+ * vmstat statistic corresponding to whatever LRU list the page was on.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if the page was removed from an LRU list.
+ * Returns -EBUSY if the page was not on an LRU list.
+ *
+ * The returned page will have PageLRU() cleared.  If it was found on
+ * the active list, it will have PageActive set.  That flag may need
+ * to be cleared by the caller before letting the page go.
+ *
+ * The vmstat statistic corresponding to the list on which the page was
+ * found will be decremented.
+ *
+ * Restrictions:
+ * (1) Must be called with an elevated refcount on the page. This is a
+ *     fundamentnal difference from isolate_lru_pages (which is called
+ *     without a stable reference).
+ * (2) the lru_lock must not be held.
+ * (3) interrupts must be enabled.
+ */
+int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	int ret = -EBUSY;
+
+	if (PageLRU(page)) {
+		struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
+
+		spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
+		if (PageLRU(page) && get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
+			ret = 0;
+			ClearPageLRU(page);
+			if (PageActive(page))
+				del_page_from_active_list(zone, page);
+			else
+				del_page_from_inactive_list(zone, page);
+		}
+		spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone().  It returns the number
  * of reclaimed pages