Add support to aio ring pages migration
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cover Add support to aio ring pages migration
Currently aio ring pages use get_user_pages() to allocate pages from movable zone,as discussed in thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/29/69, it is easy to pin user pages for a long time, which is fatal for memory hotplug/remove framework.
As Mel Gorman suggested, "Implement a callback for migration to unpin pages, barrier operations until migration completes and pin the new pfns" can soloved this issue. And the best palce to hold the callbacks is address space operations which can be found via page->mapping.
But the current aio ring pages are anonymous pages, they don't have address_space_operations, so we use an anon inode file as the aio ring file to manage the aio ring pages, so that we can implement the callback and register it to page->mmapping->a_ops->migratepage.
But there's a ploblem that all files created by anon_inode_getfile() share the same inode, so mutil aio context will share the same aio ring pages, it'll lead to io events chaos. In order to solve this issus, we introduce a new fucntion anon_inode_getfile_private() which is samilar to anon_inode_getfile(), but each new file has its own anon inode.
This work is based on Benjamin's patch,
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg66014.html
Gu Zheng (2):
fs/anon_inode: Introduce a new lib function
anon_inode_getfile_private()
fs/aio: Add support to aio ring pages migration
fs/aio.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/anon_inodes.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/anon_inodes.h | 3 + include/linux/migrate.h | 3 + mm/migrate.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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Currently aio ring pages use
get_user_pages()to allocate pages from movable zone,as discussed in thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/29/69, it is easy to pin user pages for a long time, which is fatal for memory hotplug/remove framework.As Mel Gorman suggested, "Implement a callback for migration to unpin pages, barrier operations until migration completes and pin the new pfns" can soloved this issue. And the best palce to hold the callbacks is address space operations which can be found via
page->mapping.But the current aio ring pages are anonymous pages, they don't have
address_space_operations, so we use an anon inode file as the aio ring file to manage the aio ring pages, so that we can implement the callback and register it topage->mmapping->a_ops->migratepage.But there's a ploblem that all files created by
anon_inode_getfile()share the same inode, so mutil aio context will share the same aio ring pages, it'll lead to io events chaos. In order to solve this issus, we introduce a new fucntionanon_inode_getfile_private()which is samilar toanon_inode_getfile(), but each new file has its own anon inode.This work is based on Benjamin's patch,
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg66014.htmlGu Zheng (2):
fs/anon_inode: Introduce a new lib function
anon_inode_getfile_private()
fs/aio: Add support to aio ring pages migration
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fs/aio.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/anon_inodes.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/anon_inodes.h | 3 + include/linux/migrate.h | 3 + mm/migrate.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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