[PATCH] mm: add parameter to disable faultaround

[Chanho Min]

The faultaround improves the file read performance, whereas pages which
can be dropped by drop_caches are reduced. On some systems, The amount of
freeable pages under memory pressure is more important than read
performance. So It prefers to be selectable.

This patch adds a new kernel cmdline parameter "nofaultaround"
for situations where users want to disable faultaround.

Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memory.c |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 4879b42..c36a96f 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2888,6 +2888,14 @@ static int __init fault_around_debugfs(void)
 late_initcall(fault_around_debugfs);
 #endif
 
+static bool enable_fault_around = true;
+static int __init disable_fault_around(char *s)
+{
+	enable_fault_around = false;
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("nofaultaround", disable_fault_around);
+
 /*
  * do_fault_around() tries to map few pages around the fault address. The hope
  * is that the pages will be needed soon and this will lower the number of
@@ -2965,7 +2973,8 @@ static int do_read_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	 * if page by the offset is not ready to be mapped (cold cache or
 	 * something).
 	 */
-	if (vma->vm_ops->map_pages && !(flags & FAULT_FLAG_NONLINEAR) &&
+	if (enable_fault_around && vma->vm_ops->map_pages &&
+	    !(flags & FAULT_FLAG_NONLINEAR) &&
 	    fault_around_pages() > 1) {
 		pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
 		do_fault_around(vma, address, pte, pgoff, flags);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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