MADV_FREE is on linux-next so long time. The reason was two, I think.
1. MADV_FREE code on reclaim path was really mess.
2. Andrew really want to see voice of userland people who want to use
the syscall.
A few month ago, Daniel Micay(jemalloc active contributor) requested me
to make progress upstreaming but I was busy at that time so it took
so long time for me to revist the code and finally, I clean it up the
mess recently so it solves the #2 issue.
As well, Daniel and Jason(jemalloc maintainer) requested it to Andrew
again recently and they said it would be great to have even though
it has swap dependency now so Andrew decided he will do that for v4.4.
When I test MADV_FREE patches on recent mmotm, there is some
problem with THP-refcount redesign so it's hard for long running
test. Even, there is some dependency with it because patch ordering of
MADV_FREE in mmotm is after THP refcount redesign so I discussed it
with Andrew in hallway this kernel summit and decided to send
patchset based on v4.3-rc7.
I have been tested it on v4.3-rc7 and couldn't find any problem so far.
In the meanwhile, Hugh reviewed all of code and asked me to tidy up
a lot patches related MADV_FREE on mmotm so this is the result of
the request.
A final modification since I sent clean up patchset(ie, MADV_FREE
refactoring and fix KSM page), there are four.
1. Replace description and comment of KSM fix patch with Hugh's suggestion
2. Avoid forcing SetPageDirty in try_to_unmap_one to avoid clean
page swapout from Yalin
3. Adding uapi patch to make value of MADV_FREE for all arches same
from Chen
4. Does lazy split of THP when MADV_FREE is called
About 3, I include it because I thought it was good but Andrew
just missed the patch at that time. But when I read quilt series
file now, it seems Shaohua had some problem with it but I couldn't
find any mail in my mailbox. If it has something wrong,
please tell us.
About 4(ie, mm: don't split THP page when syscall is called),
it is new implementation so need to review.
I don't understand why it added both SetPageDirty and pte_mkdirty
to subpages unconditionally in split code of THP from the beginning.
I guess at that time, there was no MADV_FREE so it was no problem
and would be more safe to mark both.
#mm-support-madvisemadv_free.patch: other-arch syscall numbering mess ("arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures"). Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxxxxxx> testing disasters.
TODO: I will send man page patch if it would land for v4.4.
Andrew, you could replace all of MADV_FREE related patches with
this. IOW, these are
# MADV_FREE stuff:
x86-add-pmd_-for-thp.patch
x86-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch
sparc-add-pmd_-for-thp.patch
sparc-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch
powerpc-add-pmd_-for-thp.patch
arm-add-pmd_mkclean-for-thp.patch
arm64-add-pmd_-for-thp.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-2.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-3.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-vs-thp-rename-split_huge_page_pmd-to-split_huge_pmd.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-5.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-6.patch
mm-mark-stable-page-dirty-in-ksm.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-2.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-3.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-4.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-5.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-6.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-6-fix.patch
mm-free-swp_entry-in-madvise_free.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix-fix.patch
* Change from v1
* Don't do unnecessary TLB flush - Shaohua
* Added Acked-by - Hugh, Michal
* Merge deactivate_page and deactivate_file_page
* Add pmd_dirty/pmd_mkclean patches for several arches
* Add lazy THP split patch
* Drop zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Delivery Failure
Chen Gang (1):
arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Let MADV_FREE have same value for all
architectures
Minchan Kim (12):
mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)
mm: define MADV_FREE for some arches
mm: free swp_entry in madvise_free
mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list
mm: clear PG_dirty to mark page freeable
mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM
x86: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
sparc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
powerpc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
arm: add pmd_mkclean for THP
arm64: add pmd_mkclean for THP
mm: don't split THP page when syscall is called
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 +
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 1 +
arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 +
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 2 +
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 9 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +
arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 1 +
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3 +
include/linux/rmap.h | 1 +
include/linux/swap.h | 2 +-
include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 +
include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 1 +
mm/huge_memory.c | 46 +++++++-
mm/ksm.c | 6 ++
mm/madvise.c | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/rmap.c | 7 ++
mm/swap.c | 62 ++++++-----
mm/swap_state.c | 5 +-
mm/truncate.c | 2 +-
mm/vmscan.c | 10 +-
mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
23 files changed, 308 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
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