From c340010e4bf824d969a89fa192ecc7a526c0cd24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lee Schermerhorn Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:15:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] shrink_list(): skip anon pages if not may_swap Martin Hicks' page cache reclaim patch added the 'may_swap' flag to the scan_control struct; and modified shrink_list() not to add anon pages to the swap cache if may_swap is not asserted. Ref: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111461480725322&w=4 However, further down, if the page is mapped, shrink_list() calls try_to_unmap() which will call try_to_unmap_one() via try_to_unmap_anon (). try_to_unmap_one() will BUG_ON() an anon page that is NOT in the swap cache. Martin says he never encountered this path in his testing, but agrees that it might happen. This patch modifies shrink_list() to skip anon pages that are not already in the swap cache when !may_swap, rather than just not adding them to the cache. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 843c87d1e61f..41d1064aabfb 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -417,7 +417,9 @@ static int shrink_list(struct list_head *page_list, struct scan_control *sc) * Anonymous process memory has backing store? * Try to allocate it some swap space here. */ - if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page) && sc->may_swap) { + if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) { + if (!sc->may_swap) + goto keep_locked; if (!add_to_swap(page)) goto activate_locked; } -- cgit From 4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:16:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: split page table lock Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of a large anonymous area. This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single page_table_lock. (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.) In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled. Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access. Ideally, I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs. So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with NR_CPUS. But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps change that to 8 later. There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 41d1064aabfb..135bf8ca96ee 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static int shrink_list(struct list_head *page_list, struct scan_control *sc) #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP if (PageSwapCache(page)) { - swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page->private }; + swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) }; __delete_from_swap_cache(page); write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); swap_free(swap); -- cgit