The patch titled Subject: mm: page_alloc: generalize the dirty balance reserve has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: page_alloc: generalize the dirty balance reserve The dirty balance reserve that dirty throttling has to consider is merely memory not available to userspace allocations. There is nothing writeback-specific about it. Generalize the name so that it's reusable outside of that context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +++--- include/linux/swap.h | 1 - mm/page-writeback.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- mm/page_alloc.c | 21 +++------------------ 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve include/linux/mmzone.h --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -356,10 +356,10 @@ struct zone { struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pageset; /* - * This is a per-zone reserve of pages that should not be - * considered dirtyable memory. + * This is a per-zone reserve of pages that are not available + * to userspace allocations. */ - unsigned long dirty_balance_reserve; + unsigned long totalreserve_pages; #ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM /* diff -puN include/linux/swap.h~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve include/linux/swap.h --- a/include/linux/swap.h~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve +++ a/include/linux/swap.h @@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ static inline void workingset_node_shado /* linux/mm/page_alloc.c */ extern unsigned long totalram_pages; extern unsigned long totalreserve_pages; -extern unsigned long dirty_balance_reserve; extern unsigned long nr_free_buffer_pages(void); extern unsigned long nr_free_pagecache_pages(void); diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -278,7 +278,12 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memo unsigned long nr_pages; nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); - nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); @@ -332,7 +337,12 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_me unsigned long x; x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES); - x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + x -= min(x, totalreserve_pages); x += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE); x += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE); diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-generalize-the-dirty-balance-reserve +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -114,13 +114,6 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(managed_page_coun unsigned long totalram_pages __read_mostly; unsigned long totalreserve_pages __read_mostly; unsigned long totalcma_pages __read_mostly; -/* - * When calculating the number of globally allowed dirty pages, there - * is a certain number of per-zone reserves that should not be - * considered dirtyable memory. This is the sum of those reserves - * over all existing zones that contribute dirtyable memory. - */ -unsigned long dirty_balance_reserve __read_mostly; int percpu_pagelist_fraction; gfp_t gfp_allowed_mask __read_mostly = GFP_BOOT_MASK; @@ -5942,20 +5935,12 @@ static void calculate_totalreserve_pages if (max > zone->managed_pages) max = zone->managed_pages; + + zone->totalreserve_pages = max; + reserve_pages += max; - /* - * Lowmem reserves are not available to - * GFP_HIGHUSER page cache allocations and - * kswapd tries to balance zones to their high - * watermark. As a result, neither should be - * regarded as dirtyable memory, to prevent a - * situation where reclaim has to clean pages - * in order to balance the zones. - */ - zone->dirty_balance_reserve = max; } } - dirty_balance_reserve = reserve_pages; totalreserve_pages = reserve_pages; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memcontrol-switch-to-the-updated-jump-label-api.patch mm-oom_killc-dont-skip-pf_exiting-tasks-when-searching-for-a-victim.patch mm-memcontrol-drop-unused-css-argument-in-memcg_init_kmem.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-double-kmem-page_counter-init.patch mm-memcontrol-give-the-kmem-states-more-descriptive-names.patch mm-memcontrol-group-kmem-init-and-exit-functions-together.patch mm-memcontrol-separate-kmem-code-from-legacy-tcp-accounting-code.patch mm-memcontrol-move-kmem-accounting-code-to-config_memcg.patch mm-memcontrol-move-kmem-accounting-code-to-config_memcg-v2.patch mm-memcontrol-move-kmem-accounting-code-to-config_memcg-fix.patch mm-memcontrol-account-kmem-consumers-in-cgroup2-memory-controller.patch mm-memcontrol-introduce-config_memcg_legacy_kmem.patch mm-memcontrol-reign-in-the-config-space-madness.patch mm-memcontrol-flatten-struct-cg_proto.patch mm-memcontrol-clean-up-alloc-online-offline-free-functions.patch mm-memcontrol-clean-up-alloc-online-offline-free-functions-fix.patch mm-memcontrol-do-not-uncharge-old-page-in-page-cache-replacement.patch mm-memcontrol-basic-memory-statistics-in-cgroup2-memory-controller.patch mm-memcontrol-basic-memory-statistics-in-cgroup2-memory-controller-fix.patch mm-memcontrol-add-sock-to-cgroup2-memorystat.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html