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mm: rework isolate_lru_page

RFC PATCH In review Nick Piggin 3 participants 6 messages Mar 5, 2007 – Mar 6, 2007

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RFC PATCH 1/2 mm: rework isolate_lru_page

Not suggesting this patch for a merge candidate until a consensus on patch 2 is reached.
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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.

 include/linux/migrate.h |    3 ---
 mm/internal.h           |    2 ++
 mm/mempolicy.c          |   10 ++++++++--
 mm/migrate.c            |   48 ++++++++++--------------------------------------
 mm/vmscan.c             |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
include/linux/migrate.h +0 -3
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/migrate.h
===================================================================
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
-extern int isolate_lru_page(struct page *p, struct list_head *pagelist);
 extern int putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l);
 extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *,
 			struct page *, struct page *);
@@ -21,8 +20,6 @@ extern int migrate_vmas(struct mm_struct
 		unsigned long flags);
 #else
 
-static inline int isolate_lru_page(struct page *p, struct list_head *list)
-					{ return -ENOSYS; }
 static inline int putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) { return 0; }
 static inline int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
 		unsigned long private) { return -ENOSYS; }
mm/internal.h +2 -0
Index: linux-2.6/mm/internal.h
===================================================================
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ static inline void __put_page(struct pag
 	atomic_dec(&page->_count);
 }
 
+extern int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page);
+
 extern void fastcall __init __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page,
 						unsigned int order);
 
mm/migrate.c +10 -38

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mm/vmscan.c +32 -0
Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
@@ -655,6 +655,38 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u
 }
 
 /*
+ * Isolate one page from the LRU lists. Must be called with an elevated
+ * refcount on the page, which is how it differs from isolate_lru_pages
+ * (which is called without a stable reference).
+ *
+ * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ *  -EBUSY: page not on LRU list
+ *  0: page removed from LRU list and added to the specified list.
+ */
+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)) {
+			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
  */
mm/mempolicy.c +8 -2
Index: linux-2.6/mm/mempolicy.c
===================================================================
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
+#include "internal.h"
+
 /* Internal flags */
 #define MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK (MPOL_MF_INTERNAL << 0)	/* Skip checks for continuous vmas */
 #define MPOL_MF_INVERT (MPOL_MF_INTERNAL << 1)		/* Invert check for nodemask */
@@ -597,8 +599,12 @@ static void migrate_page_add(struct page
 	/*
 	 * Avoid migrating a page that is shared with others.
 	 */
-	if ((flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL) || page_mapcount(page) == 1)
-		isolate_lru_page(page, pagelist);
+	if ((flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL) || page_mapcount(page) == 1) {
+		if (!isolate_lru_page(page)) {
+			get_page(page);
+			list_add_tail(&page->lru, pagelist);
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long node, int **x)

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Quoted 1 line · Nick Piggin

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

Good idea.

Quoted 9 lines

+ * Isolate one page from the LRU lists. Must be called with an elevated
+ * refcount on the page, which is how it differs from isolate_lru_pages
+ * (which is called without a stable reference).
+ *
+ * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * -EBUSY: page not on LRU list
+ * 0: page removed from LRU list and added to the specified list.

The new version of isolate_lru_page no longer adds the page to a list. Remove that portion.

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Quoted 16 lines · Christoph Lameter
Quoted 1 line · Nick Piggin

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

Good idea.

Quoted 9 lines

+ * Isolate one page from the LRU lists. Must be called with an elevated
+ * refcount on the page, which is how it differs from isolate_lru_pages
+ * (which is called without a stable reference).
+ *
+ * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * -EBUSY: page not on LRU list
+ * 0: page removed from LRU list and added to the specified list.

Quoted 2 lines

The new version of isolate_lru_page no longer adds the page to a list. Remove that portion.

Ah, thanks.

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In reply to Nick Piggin

I'm doing a patch massacre on the -mm tree in an attempt to stabilise things. Given that the move-mlocked-and-anon-pages-off-the-lru work appears to be upgraded, and given that another mm developer is actually looking at them, I dropped 'em.

The remains are at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dropped-patches/

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Quoted 7 lines · Andrew Morton

I'm doing a patch massacre on the -mm tree in an attempt to stabilise things. Given that the move-mlocked-and-anon-pages-off-the-lru work appears to be upgraded, and given that another mm developer is actually looking at them, I dropped 'em.

The remains are at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dropped-patches/

OK. make-try_to_unmap-return-a-special-exit-code.patch I think can also be put in that same series, can't it?

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Quoted 11 lines · On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 05:07:34 +0100 Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoted 7 lines · Andrew Morton

I'm doing a patch massacre on the -mm tree in an attempt to stabilise things. Given that the move-mlocked-and-anon-pages-off-the-lru work appears to be upgraded, and given that another mm developer is actually looking at them, I dropped 'em.

The remains are at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dropped-patches/

OK. make-try_to_unmap-return-a-special-exit-code.patch I think can also be put in that same series, can't it?

yup.

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