The patch titled
Subject: thp, mlock: update unevictable-lru.txt
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
thp-mlock-update-unevictable-lrutxt.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/thp-mlock-update-unevictable-lrutxt.patch
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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: thp, mlock: update unevictable-lru.txt
Add description of THP handling into unevictable-lru.txt.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-7-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt~thp-mlock-update-unevictable-lrutxt Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
--- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt~thp-mlock-update-unevictable-lrutxt
+++ a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
@@ -461,6 +461,27 @@ unevictable LRU is enabled, the work of
the page migration code and the same work flow as described in MIGRATING
MLOCKED PAGES will apply.
+MLOCKING TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGES
+-------------------------------
+
+A transparent huge page is represented by a single entry on an LRU list.
+Therefore, we can only make unevictable an entire compound page, not
+individual subpages.
+
+If a user tries to mlock() part of a huge page, we want the rest of the
+page to be reclaimable.
+
+We cannot just split the page on partial mlock() as split_huge_page() can
+fail and new intermittent failure mode for the syscall is undesirable.
+
+We handle this by keeping PTE-mapped huge pages on normal LRU lists: the
+PMD on border of VM_LOCKED VMA will be split into PTE table.
+
+This way the huge page is accessible for vmscan. Under memory pressure the
+page will be split, subpages which belong to VM_LOCKED VMAs will be moved
+to unevictable LRU and the rest can be reclaimed.
+
+See also comment in follow_trans_huge_pmd().
mmap(MAP_LOCKED) SYSTEM CALL HANDLING
-------------------------------------
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
revert-mm-make-faultaround-produce-old-ptes.patch
revert-mm-disable-fault-around-on-emulated-access-bit-architecture.patch
mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate-fix.patch
mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate-fix-2.patch
mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate-fix-3.patch
mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix.patch
khugepaged-recheck-pmd-after-mmap_sem-re-acquired.patch
thp-mlock-update-unevictable-lrutxt.patch
mm-do-not-pass-mm_struct-into-handle_mm_fault.patch
mm-introduce-fault_env.patch
mm-postpone-page-table-allocation-until-we-have-page-to-map.patch
rmap-support-file-thp.patch
mm-introduce-do_set_pmd.patch
thp-vmstats-add-counters-for-huge-file-pages.patch
thp-support-file-pages-in-zap_huge_pmd.patch
thp-handle-file-pages-in-split_huge_pmd.patch
thp-handle-file-cow-faults.patch
thp-skip-file-huge-pmd-on-copy_huge_pmd.patch
thp-prepare-change_huge_pmd-for-file-thp.patch
thp-run-vma_adjust_trans_huge-outside-i_mmap_rwsem.patch
thp-file-pages-support-for-split_huge_page.patch
thp-mlock-do-not-mlock-pte-mapped-file-huge-pages.patch
vmscan-split-file-huge-pages-before-paging-them-out.patch
page-flags-relax-policy-for-pg_mappedtodisk-and-pg_reclaim.patch
radix-tree-implement-radix_tree_maybe_preload_order.patch
filemap-prepare-find-and-delete-operations-for-huge-pages.patch
truncate-handle-file-thp.patch
mm-rmap-account-shmem-thp-pages.patch
shmem-prepare-huge=-mount-option-and-sysfs-knob.patch
shmem-add-huge-pages-support.patch
shmem-thp-respect-madv_nohugepage-for-file-mappings.patch
thp-extract-khugepaged-from-mm-huge_memoryc.patch
khugepaged-move-up_readmmap_sem-out-of-khugepaged_alloc_page.patch
shmem-make-shmem_inode_info-lock-irq-safe.patch
khugepaged-add-support-of-collapse-for-tmpfs-shmem-pages.patch
thp-introduce-config_transparent_huge_pagecache.patch
shmem-split-huge-pages-beyond-i_size-under-memory-pressure.patch
thp-update-documentation-vm-transhugefilesystems-proctxt.patch
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