[RFC][PATCH 11/26] mm, mpol: Lazy migrate a process/vma

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 16 2012 - 10:58:24 EST


Provide simple functions to lazy migrate a process (or part thereof).
These will be used to implement memory migration for NUMA process
migration.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mempolicy.h | 3 +++
mm/mempolicy.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ extern int vma_migratable(struct vm_area

extern int mpol_misplaced(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);

+extern void lazy_migrate_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node);
+extern void lazy_migrate_process(struct mm_struct *mm, int node);
+
#else

struct mempolicy {};
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,46 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start
return err;
}

+void lazy_migrate_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node)
+{
+ nodemask_t nmask = nodemask_of_node(node);
+ LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
+
+ struct mempol_walk_data data = {
+ .nodes = &nmask,
+ .flags = MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_INVERT, /* move all pages not in set */
+ .private = &pagelist,
+ .vma = vma,
+ };
+
+ struct mm_walk walk = {
+ .pte_entry = check_pte_entry,
+ .mm = vma->vm_mm,
+ .private = &data,
+ };
+
+ if (vma->vm_file)
+ return;
+
+ if (!vma_migratable(vma))
+ return;
+
+ if (!walk_page_range(vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, &walk))
+ migrate_pages_unmap_only(&pagelist);
+
+ putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
+}
+
+void lazy_migrate_process(struct mm_struct *mm, int node)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next)
+ lazy_migrate_vma(vma, node);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+}
+
/*
* User space interface with variable sized bitmaps for nodelists.
*/


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