[PATCH v5 00/12] MADV_FREE support

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Nov 30 2015 - 01:42:35 EST


In v4, Andrew wanted to settle in old basic MADV_FREE and introduces
new stuffs(ie, lazyfree LRU, swapless support and lazyfreeness) later
so this version doesn't include them.

I have been tested it on mmotm-2015-11-25-17-08 with additional
patch[1] from Kirill to prevent BUG_ON which he didn't send to
linux-mm yet as formal patch. With it, I couldn't find any
problem so far.

Note that this version is based on THP refcount redesign so
I needed some modification on MADV_FREE because split_huge_pmd
doesn't split a THP page any more and pmd_trans_huge(pmd) is not
enough to guarantee the page is not THP page.
As well, for MAVD_FREE lazy-split, THP split should respect
pmd's dirtiness rather than marking ptes of all subpages dirty
unconditionally. Please, review last patch in this patchset.

mm: don't split THP page when syscall is called

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/17/134

git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/minchan/linux.git
branch: mm/madv_free-v4.4-rc2-mmotm-2015-11-25-17-08-v5r2

In this stage, I don't think we need to write man page.
It could be done after solid policy and implementation.

* Change from v4
* drop lazyfree LRU
* drop swapless support
* drop lazyfreeness
* rebase on recent mmotom with THP refcount redesign

* Change from v3
* some bug fix
* code refactoring
* lazyfree reclaim logic change
* reordering patch

* Change from v2
* vm_lazyfreeness tuning knob
* add new LRU list - Johannes, Shaohua
* support swapless - Johannes

* 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 (11):
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: 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 | 2 +
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 1 +
arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 2 +
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 2 +
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 | 2 +
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3 +
include/linux/rmap.h | 1 +
include/linux/swap.h | 1 +
include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 +
include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 1 +
mm/huge_memory.c | 87 +++++++++++++-
mm/ksm.c | 6 +
mm/madvise.c | 199 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/rmap.c | 8 ++
mm/swap.c | 44 +++++++
mm/swap_state.c | 5 +-
mm/vmscan.c | 10 +-
mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
22 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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