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Mel Gorman 769848c038 Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated
It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not.
This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called
GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE.  Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated
using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing
storage and discarding.

An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for
__GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable().  The
flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would
change the semantics of an existing API.  After this patch is applied there
are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should
be marked deprecated if this patch is merged.

Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in
shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the
shmem_dir_alloc() helper function.  This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of
Hugh Dickens.

Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the
concept.  Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector
and ramfs allocations.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-arm mm: remove ptep_establish() 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-arm26
asm-avr32 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2007-07-16 17:48:54 -07:00
asm-blackfin
asm-cris Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-frv mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-generic mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-h8300 Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-i386 Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-ia64 Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-m32r Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
asm-m68knommu Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-mips Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
asm-parisc mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-powerpc mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-ppc mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-s390 Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-sh Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2007-07-16 10:32:02 -07:00
asm-sh64
asm-sparc
asm-sparc64 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2007-07-16 10:45:23 -07:00
asm-um
asm-v850
asm-x86_64 Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
asm-xtensa mm: remove ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
crypto
keys
linux Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
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