On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> From: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The MIGRATE_CMA migration type has two main characteristics:
> (i) only movable pages can be allocated from MIGRATE_CMA
> pageblocks and (ii) page allocator will never change migration
> type of MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks.
>
> This guarantees that page in a MIGRATE_CMA page block can
> always be migrated somewhere else (unless there's no memory left
> in the system).
>
> It is designed to be used with Contiguous Memory Allocator
> (CMA) for allocating big chunks (eg. 10MiB) of physically
> contiguous memory. Once driver requests contiguous memory,
> CMA will migrate pages from MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks.
>
> To minimise number of migrations, MIGRATE_CMA migration type
> is the last type tried when page allocator falls back to other
> migration types then requested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [m.szyprowski: cleaned up Kconfig, renamed some functions]
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, but I noticed a few things:
> cma migrate fixup
This text doesn't belong here.
> +enum {
> + MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE,
> + MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE,
> + MIGRATE_MOVABLE,
> + MIGRATE_PCPTYPES, /* the number of types on the pcp lists */
> + MIGRATE_RESERVE = MIGRATE_PCPTYPES,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE
> + /*
> + * MIGRATE_CMA migration type is designed to mimic the way
> + * ZONE_MOVABLE works. Only movable pages can be allocated
> + * from MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks and page allocator never
> + * implicitly change migration type of MIGRATE_CMA pageblock.
> + *
> + * The way to use it is to change migratetype of a range of
> + * pageblocks to MIGRATE_CMA which can be done by
> + * __free_pageblock_cma() function. What is important though
> + * is that a range of pageblocks must be aligned to
> + * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES should biggest page be bigger then
> + * a single pageblock.
> + */
> + MIGRATE_CMA,
> +#endif
> + MIGRATE_ISOLATE, /* can't allocate from here */
> + MIGRATE_TYPES
> +};
It's not clear to me why you need this #ifdef. Does it hurt if the
migration type is defined but not used?
> @@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ config MIGRATION
> pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
> allocation instead of reclaiming.
>
> +config CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE
> + bool
> + help
> + This enables the use the MIGRATE_CMA migrate type, which lets lets CMA
> + work on almost arbitrary memory range and not only inside ZONE_MOVABLE.
> +
> config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
This is currently only selected on ARM with your patch set.
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 6cc604b..9e5cc59 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -119,6 +119,16 @@ static bool suitable_migration_target(struct page *page)
> if (migratetype == MIGRATE_ISOLATE || migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE)
> return false;
>
> + /* Keep MIGRATE_CMA alone as well. */
> + /*
> + * XXX Revisit. We currently cannot let compaction touch CMA
> + * pages since compaction insists on changing their migration
> + * type to MIGRATE_MOVABLE (see split_free_page() called from
> + * isolate_freepages_block() above).
> + */
> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
> + return false;
> +
> /* If the page is a large free page, then allow migration */
> if (PageBuddy(page) && page_order(page) >= pageblock_order)
> return true;
Do you plan to fix address this before merging the patch set, or is
it harmless enough to get in this way?
> /*
> * The order of subdivision here is critical for the IO subsystem.
> @@ -827,11 +852,15 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_smallest(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
> * This array describes the order lists are fallen back to when
> * the free lists for the desirable migrate type are depleted
> */
> -static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][MIGRATE_TYPES-1] = {
> +static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][4] = {
> [MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE] = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_MOVABLE, MIGRATE_RESERVE },
> [MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE] = { MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE, MIGRATE_MOVABLE, MIGRATE_RESERVE },
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE
> + [MIGRATE_MOVABLE] = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE, MIGRATE_CMA , MIGRATE_RESERVE },
> +#else
> [MIGRATE_MOVABLE] = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE, MIGRATE_RESERVE },
> - [MIGRATE_RESERVE] = { MIGRATE_RESERVE, MIGRATE_RESERVE, MIGRATE_RESERVE }, /* Never used */
> +#endif
> + [MIGRATE_RESERVE] = { MIGRATE_RESERVE }, /* Never used */
> };
>
> /*
> @@ -1044,7 +1086,12 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
> list_add(&page->lru, list);
> else
> list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
> - set_page_private(page, migratetype);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE
> + if (is_pageblock_cma(page))
> + set_page_private(page, MIGRATE_CMA);
> + else
> +#endif
> + set_page_private(page, migratetype);
> list = &page->lru;
> }
I guess if you can get rid of the first #ifdef I mentioned above, these two can be
removed as well, without causing any run-time overhead.
Arnd
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