linux/mm
David Rientjes 21440d7eb9 mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option
There is no thp defrag option that currently allows MADV_HUGEPAGE
regions to do direct compaction and reclaim while all other thp
allocations simply trigger kswapd and kcompactd in the background and
fail immediately.

The "defer" setting simply triggers background reclaim and compaction
for all regions, regardless of MADV_HUGEPAGE, which makes it unusable
for our userspace where MADV_HUGEPAGE is being used to indicate the
application is willing to wait for work for thp memory to be available.

The "madvise" setting will do direct compaction and reclaim for these
MADV_HUGEPAGE regions, but does not trigger kswapd and kcompactd in the
background for anybody else.

For reasonable usage, there needs to be a mesh between the two options.
This patch introduces a fifth mode, "defer+madvise", that will do direct
reclaim and compaction for MADV_HUGEPAGE regions and trigger background
reclaim and compaction for everybody else so that hugepages may be
available in the near future.

A proposal to allow direct reclaim and compaction for MADV_HUGEPAGE
regions as part of the "defer" mode, making it a very powerful setting
and avoids breaking userspace, was offered:
     http://marc.info/?t=148236612700003
This additional mode is a compromise.

A second proposal to allow both "defer" and "madvise" to be selected at
the same time was also offered:
     http://marc.info/?t=148357345300001.
This is possible, but there was a concern that it might break existing
userspaces the parse the output of the defrag mode, so the fifth option
was introduced instead.

This patch also cleans up the helper function for storing to "enabled"
and "defrag" since the former supports three modes while the latter
supports five and triple_flag_store() was getting unnecessarily messy.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701101614330.41805@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
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kasan arm64 updates for 4.11: 2017-02-22 10:46:44 -08:00
backing-dev.c block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init() 2017-02-08 13:52:01 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c
cma.c mm/cma: Cleanup highmem check 2017-01-11 13:56:49 +00:00
cma.h
compaction.c mm,compaction: serialize waitqueue_active() checks 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page() 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: fix filemap.c kernel-doc warnings 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
frame_vector.c mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags 2016-10-19 08:11:24 -07:00
frontswap.c
gup.c userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: gup: support VM_FAULT_RETRY 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: add UFFDIO_COPY support for shared mappings 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm, compaction: add vmstats for kcompactd work 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: THP page cache support for ppc64 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
Kconfig.debug PM / Hibernate: allow hibernation with PAGE_POISONING_ZERO 2016-09-13 02:35:27 +02:00
khugepaged.c mm: get rid of __GFP_OTHER_NODE 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c kmemleak: fix reference to Documentation 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -08:00
ksm.c mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node() 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref 2016-10-27 18:43:42 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c userfaultfd: non-cooperative: avoid MADV_DONTNEED race condition 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
Makefile mm/swap: add cache for swap slots allocation 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: check return value of memblock_reserve() in memblock_virt_alloc_internal() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
memcontrol.c slab: use memcg_kmem_cache_wq for slab destruction operations 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug: set magic number to page->freelist instead of page->lru.next 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: Use owner_priv bit for PageSwapCache, valid when PageSwapBacked 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
memory.c userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix __mcopy_atomic_hugetlb retry/error processing 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: Use owner_priv bit for PageSwapCache, valid when PageSwapBacked 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
mincore.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mlock.c thp: fix corner case of munlock() of PTE-mapped THPs 2016-11-30 16:32:52 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c powerpc: do not make the entire heap executable 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: mprotect: use pmd_trans_unstable instead of taking the pmd_lock 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mremap.c userfaultfd: non-cooperative: optimize mremap_userfaultfd_complete() 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
nommu.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: print nodemask in the oom report 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm/page_ext: support extra space allocation by page_ext user 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_idle.c
page_io.c writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() 2016-11-02 10:24:03 -06:00
page_isolation.c mm, page_alloc: avoid page_to_pfn() when merging buddies 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: don't define fields on struct page_ext by hard-coding 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_poison.c
page-writeback.c block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue 2017-02-02 08:20:48 -07:00
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2016-12-13 12:34:47 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c mm: unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked() 2016-12-14 16:04:09 -08:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm, rmap: handle anon_vma_prepare() common case inline 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
shmem.c userfaultfd: shmem: avoid leaking blocks and used blocks in UFFDIO_COPY 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
slab_common.c slab: use memcg_kmem_cache_wq for slab destruction operations 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slab.c slab: introduce __kmemcg_cache_deactivate() 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slab.h slab: remove synchronous synchronize_sched() from memcg cache deactivation path 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slob.c slab: introduce __kmemcg_cache_deactivate() 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slub.c slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/memory_hotplug: set magic number to page->freelist instead of page->lru.next 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c mm/swap: skip readahead only when swap slot cache is enabled 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
swap_state.c mm/swap: skip readahead only when swap slot cache is enabled 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
swap.c mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: enable swap slots cache usage 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
truncate.c mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate 2016-12-26 20:29:24 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Switch to using lm_alias 2017-01-11 13:56:50 +00:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: add UFFDIO_COPY support for shared mappings 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
util.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
vmacache.c mm: unrig VMA cache hit ratio 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: use rb_entry_safe 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
vmstat.c mm, compaction: add vmstats for kcompactd work 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
workingset.c mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinker 2017-01-07 18:22:40 -08:00
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c mm: fix some typos in mm/zsmalloc.c 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
zswap.c zswap: disable changing params if init fails 2017-02-03 14:13:19 -08:00