Re: + mm-reclaim-madv_free-pages.patch added to -mm tree

[Minchan Kim]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:32:38PM -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
>      Subject: mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      mm-reclaim-madv_free-pages.patch
> 
> This patch should soon appear at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-reclaim-madv_free-pages.patch
> and later at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-reclaim-madv_free-pages.patch
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
> Subject: mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages
> 
> When memory pressure is high, we free MADV_FREE pages.  If the pages are
> not dirty in pte, the pages could be freed immediately.  Otherwise we
> can't reclaim them.  We put the pages back to anonumous LRU list (by
> setting SwapBacked flag) and the pages will be reclaimed in normal swapout
> way.
> 
> We use normal page reclaim policy.  Since MADV_FREE pages are put into
> inactive file list, such pages and inactive file pages are reclaimed
> according to their age.  This is expected, because we don't want to
> reclaim too many MADV_FREE pages before used once pages.
> 
> Based on Minchan's original patch
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14b8eb1d3f6bf6cc492833f183ac8c304e560484.1487965799.git.shli@xxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

< snip >

> @@ -1419,11 +1413,21 @@ static int try_to_unmap_one(struct page
>  			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageSwapCache(page) && PageSwapBacked(page),
>  				page);
>  
> -			if (!PageDirty(page)) {
> +			/*
> +			 * swapin page could be clean, it has data stored in
> +			 * swap. We can't silently discard it without setting
> +			 * swap entry in the page table.
> +			 */
> +			if (!PageDirty(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
>  				/* It's a freeable page by MADV_FREE */
>  				dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
> -				rp->lazyfreed++;
>  				goto discard;
> +			} else if (!PageSwapBacked(page)) {
> +				/* dirty MADV_FREE page */
> +				set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
> +				ret = SWAP_DIRTY;
> +				page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
> +				break;
>  			}

There is no point to make this logic complicated with clean swapin-page.

Andrew,
Could you fold below patch into the mm-reclaim-madv_free-pages.patch
if others are not against?

Thanks.