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Memoryless nodes: drop one memoryless node boot warning
[linux-2.6] / mm / vmscan.c
index d419e10e3daa2dea26c6da35fb8e418b27629c6f..8fd8ba1c67b4f7f184d1bf091fd8d53a185de980 100644 (file)
@@ -271,6 +271,12 @@ static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
        unlock_page(page);
 }
 
+/* Request for sync pageout. */
+enum pageout_io {
+       PAGEOUT_IO_ASYNC,
+       PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC,
+};
+
 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
 typedef enum {
        /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
@@ -287,7 +293,8 @@ typedef enum {
  * pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
  * Calls ->writepage().
  */
-static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
+static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
+                                               enum pageout_io sync_writeback)
 {
        /*
         * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
@@ -346,6 +353,15 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
                        ClearPageReclaim(page);
                        return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
                }
+
+               /*
+                * Wait on writeback if requested to. This happens when
+                * direct reclaiming a large contiguous area and the
+                * first attempt to free a range of pages fails.
+                */
+               if (PageWriteback(page) && sync_writeback == PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC)
+                       wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+
                if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
                        /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
                        ClearPageReclaim(page);
@@ -423,7 +439,8 @@ cannot_free:
  * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
  */
 static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
-                                       struct scan_control *sc)
+                                       struct scan_control *sc,
+                                       enum pageout_io sync_writeback)
 {
        LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
        struct pagevec freed_pvec;
@@ -458,8 +475,23 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
                if (page_mapped(page) || PageSwapCache(page))
                        sc->nr_scanned++;
 
-               if (PageWriteback(page))
-                       goto keep_locked;
+               may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
+                       (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
+
+               if (PageWriteback(page)) {
+                       /*
+                        * Synchronous reclaim is performed in two passes,
+                        * first an asynchronous pass over the list to
+                        * start parallel writeback, and a second synchronous
+                        * pass to wait for the IO to complete.  Wait here
+                        * for any page for which writeback has already
+                        * started.
+                        */
+                       if (sync_writeback == PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC && may_enter_fs)
+                               wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+                       else
+                               goto keep_locked;
+               }
 
                referenced = page_referenced(page, 1);
                /* In active use or really unfreeable?  Activate it. */
@@ -478,8 +510,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 #endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
 
                mapping = page_mapping(page);
-               may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
-                       (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
 
                /*
                 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
@@ -505,7 +535,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
                                goto keep_locked;
 
                        /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
-                       switch(pageout(page, mapping)) {
+                       switch (pageout(page, mapping, sync_writeback)) {
                        case PAGE_KEEP:
                                goto keep_locked;
                        case PAGE_ACTIVATE:
@@ -777,6 +807,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long max_scan,
                             (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)?
                                             ISOLATE_BOTH : ISOLATE_INACTIVE);
                nr_active = clear_active_flags(&page_list);
+               __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_active);
 
                __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE, -nr_active);
                __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE,
@@ -785,7 +816,29 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long max_scan,
                spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 
                nr_scanned += nr_scan;
-               nr_freed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc);
+               nr_freed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc, PAGEOUT_IO_ASYNC);
+
+               /*
+                * If we are direct reclaiming for contiguous pages and we do
+                * not reclaim everything in the list, try again and wait
+                * for IO to complete. This will stall high-order allocations
+                * but that should be acceptable to the caller
+                */
+               if (nr_freed < nr_taken && !current_is_kswapd() &&
+                                       sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) {
+                       congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+
+                       /*
+                        * The attempt at page out may have made some
+                        * of the pages active, mark them inactive again.
+                        */
+                       nr_active = clear_active_flags(&page_list);
+                       count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_active);
+
+                       nr_freed += shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc,
+                                                       PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC);
+               }
+
                nr_reclaimed += nr_freed;
                local_irq_disable();
                if (current_is_kswapd()) {
@@ -1318,7 +1371,13 @@ loop_again:
                        temp_priority[i] = priority;
                        sc.nr_scanned = 0;
                        note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority);
-                       nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
+                       /*
+                        * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one
+                        * zone has way too many pages free already.
+                        */
+                       if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, 8*zone->pages_high,
+                                               end_zone, 0))
+                               nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
                        reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
                        nr_slab = shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, GFP_KERNEL,
                                                lru_pages);
@@ -1674,7 +1733,7 @@ static int __init kswapd_init(void)
        int nid;
 
        swap_setup();
-       for_each_online_node(nid)
+       for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY)
                kswapd_run(nid);
        hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);
        return 0;
@@ -1794,7 +1853,6 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 
 int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 {
-       cpumask_t mask;
        int node_id;
 
        /*
@@ -1831,8 +1889,7 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
         * as wide as possible.
         */
        node_id = zone_to_nid(zone);
-       mask = node_to_cpumask(node_id);
-       if (!cpus_empty(mask) && node_id != numa_node_id())
+       if (node_state(node_id, N_CPU) && node_id != numa_node_id())
                return 0;
        return __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
 }