The patch titled
page migration: Only migrate pages if allocation in the highest zone is possible
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
page-migration-only-migrate-pages-if-allocation-in-the-highest-zone-is-possible.patch
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Subject: page migration: Only migrate pages if allocation in the highest zone is possible
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Address spaces contain an allocation flag that specifies restriction on the
zone for pages placed in the mapping. I.e. some device may require pages
to be allocated from a DMA zone. Block devices may not be able to use
pages from HIGHMEM.
Memory policies and the common use of page migration works only on the
highest zone. If the address space does not allow allocation from the
highest zone then the pages in the address space are not migratable simply
because we can only allocate memory for a specified node if we allow
allocation for the highest zone on each node.
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/migrate.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/linux/migrate.h~page-migration-only-migrate-pages-if-allocation-in-the-highest-zone-is-possible include/linux/migrate.h
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h~page-migration-only-migrate-pages-if-allocation-in-the-highest-zone-is-possible
+++ a/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
#define _LINUX_MIGRATE_H
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **);
@@ -10,6 +12,15 @@ static inline int vma_migratable(struct
{
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO|VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP|VM_RESERVED))
return 0;
+ /*
+ * Migration allocates pages in the highest zone. If we cannot
+ * do so then migration (at least from node to node) is not
+ * possible.
+ */
+ if (vma->vm_file &&
+ gfp_zone(mapping_gfp_mask(vma->vm_file->f_mapping))
+ < policy_zone)
+ return 0;
return 1;
}
_
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slab-introduce-krealloc.patch
ia64-sn-xpc-convert-to-use-kthread-api-fix.patch
ia64-sn-xpc-convert-to-use-kthread-api-fix-2.patch
add-apply_to_page_range-which-applies-a-function-to-a-pte-range.patch
add-apply_to_page_range-which-applies-a-function-to-a-pte-range-fix.patch
safer-nr_node_ids-and-nr_node_ids-determination-and-initial.patch
use-zvc-counters-to-establish-exact-size-of-dirtyable-pages.patch
slab-ensure-cache_alloc_refill-terminates.patch
smaps-extract-pmd-walker-from-smaps-code.patch
smaps-add-pages-referenced-count-to-smaps.patch
smaps-add-clear_refs-file-to-clear-reference.patch
slab-use-num_possible_cpus-in-enable_cpucache.patch
i386-use-page-allocator-to-allocate-thread_info-structure.patch
slub-core.patch
make-page-private-usable-in-compound-pages-v1.patch
optimize-compound_head-by-avoiding-a-shared-page.patch
add-virt_to_head_page-and-consolidate-code-in-slab-and-slub.patch
slub-fix-object-tracking.patch
slub-enable-tracking-of-full-slabs.patch
slub-validation-of-slabs-metadata-and-guard-zones.patch
slub-add-min_partial.patch
slub-add-ability-to-list-alloc--free-callers-per-slab.patch
slub-free-slabs-and-sort-partial-slab-lists-in-kmem_cache_shrink.patch
slub-remove-object-activities-out-of-checking-functions.patch
slub-user-documentation.patch
slub-add-slabinfo-tool.patch
quicklists-for-page-table-pages.patch
quicklist-support-for-ia64.patch
quicklist-support-for-x86_64.patch
quicklist-support-for-sparc64.patch
slab-allocators-remove-obsolete-slab_must_hwcache_align.patch
kmem_cache-simplify-slab-cache-creation.patch
slab-allocators-remove-multiple-alignment-specifications.patch
fault-injection-fix-failslab-with-config_numa.patch
mm-fix-handling-of-panic_on_oom-when-cpusets-are-in-use.patch
slub-exploit-page-mobility-to-increase-allocation-order.patch
slab-allocators-remove-slab_debug_initial-flag.patch
slab-allocators-remove-slab_ctor_atomic.patch
slab-allocators-remove-useless-__gfp_no_grow-flag.patch
slub-mm-only-make-slub-the-default-slab-allocator.patch
slub-i386-support.patch
page-migration-only-migrate-pages-if-allocation-in-the-highest-zone-is-possible.patch
slab-shutdown-cache_reaper-when-cpu-goes-down.patch
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
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vmstat-use-our-own-timer-events.patch
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