mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable
Make sure that mlocked pages also live on the unevictable LRU, so kswapd
will not scan them over and over again.
This is achieved through various strategies:
1) add yet another page flag--PG_mlocked--to indicate that
the page is locked for efficient testing in vmscan and,
optionally, fault path. This allows early culling of
unevictable pages, preventing them from getting to
page_referenced()/try_to_unmap(). Also allows separate
accounting of mlock'd pages, as Nick's original patch
did.
Note: Nick's original mlock patch used a PG_mlocked
flag. I had removed this in favor of the PG_unevictable
flag + an mlock_count [new page struct member]. I
restored the PG_mlocked flag to eliminate the new
count field.
2) add the mlock/unevictable infrastructure to mm/mlock.c,
with internal APIs in mm/internal.h. This is a rework
of Nick's original patch to these files, taking into
account that mlocked pages are now kept on unevictable
LRU list.
3) update vmscan.c:page_evictable() to check PageMlocked()
and, if vma passed in, the vm_flags. Note that the vma
will only be passed in for new pages in the fault path;
and then only if the "cull unevictable pages in fault
path" patch is included.
4) add try_to_unlock() to rmap.c to walk a page's rmap and
ClearPageMlocked() if no other vmas have it mlocked.
Reuses as much of try_to_unmap() as possible. This
effectively replaces the use of one of the lru list links
as an mlock count. If this mechanism let's pages in mlocked
vmas leak through w/o PG_mlocked set [I don't know that it
does], we should catch them later in try_to_unmap(). One
hopes this will be rare, as it will be relatively expensive.
Original mm/internal.h, mm/rmap.c and mm/mlock.c changes:
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
splitlru: introduce __get_user_pages():
New munlock processing need to GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS.
because current get_user_pages() can't grab PROT_NONE pages theresore it
cause PROT_NONE pages can't munlock.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix this for pagemap-pass-mm-into-pagewalkers.patch]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: untangle patch interdependencies]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things after out-of-order merging]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix page-flags mess]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: fix munlock page table walk - now requires 'mm']
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix truncate race and sevaral comments]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: splitlru: introduce __get_user_pages()]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index ed75bc9..2696b24 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
void *high_memory;
struct page *mem_map;
unsigned long max_mapnr;
@@ -128,20 +130,16 @@
return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page);
}
-/*
- * get a list of pages in an address range belonging to the specified process
- * and indicate the VMA that covers each page
- * - this is potentially dodgy as we may end incrementing the page count of a
- * slab page or a secondary page from a compound page
- * - don't permit access to VMAs that don't support it, such as I/O mappings
- */
-int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force,
- struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, int len, int flags,
+ struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
unsigned long vm_flags;
int i;
+ int write = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_WRITE);
+ int force = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_FORCE);
+ int ignore = !!(flags & GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS);
/* calculate required read or write permissions.
* - if 'force' is set, we only require the "MAY" flags.
@@ -156,7 +154,7 @@
/* protect what we can, including chardevs */
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP) ||
- !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags))
+ (!ignore && !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)))
goto finish_or_fault;
if (pages) {
@@ -174,6 +172,30 @@
finish_or_fault:
return i ? : -EFAULT;
}
+
+
+/*
+ * get a list of pages in an address range belonging to the specified process
+ * and indicate the VMA that covers each page
+ * - this is potentially dodgy as we may end incrementing the page count of a
+ * slab page or a secondary page from a compound page
+ * - don't permit access to VMAs that don't support it, such as I/O mappings
+ */
+int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force,
+ struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+{
+ int flags = 0;
+
+ if (write)
+ flags |= GUP_FLAGS_WRITE;
+ if (force)
+ flags |= GUP_FLAGS_FORCE;
+
+ return __get_user_pages(tsk, mm,
+ start, len, flags,
+ pages, vmas);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);
DEFINE_RWLOCK(vmlist_lock);
