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authorLee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>2006-04-22 02:35:48 -0700
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2006-05-20 15:00:33 -0700
commit75178298c6c807a7274ab48ef9c4d6be7d0114d8 (patch)
treeedaed2ed2e3a69808b84f5d1118c205674247621 /mm
parent602e0343a69b4300de4b889d644f95983dfdc9cd (diff)
[PATCH] add migratepage address space op to shmem
Basic problem: pages of a shared memory segment can only be migrated once. In 2.6.16 through 2.6.17-rc1, shared memory mappings do not have a migratepage address space op. Therefore, migrate_pages() falls back to default processing. In this path, it will try to pageout() dirty pages. Once a shared memory page has been migrated it becomes dirty, so migrate_pages() will try to page it out. However, because the page count is 3 [cache + current + pte], pageout() will return PAGE_KEEP because is_page_cache_freeable() returns false. This will abort all subsequent migrations. This patch adds a migratepage address space op to shared memory segments to avoid taking the default path. We use the "migrate_page()" function because it knows how to migrate dirty pages. This allows shared memory segment pages to migrate, subject to other conditions such as # pte's referencing the page [page_mapcount(page)], when requested. I think this is safe. If we're migrating a shared memory page, then we found the page via a page table, so it must be in memory. Can be verified with memtoy and the shmem-mbind-test script, both available at: http://free.linux.hp.com/~lts/Tools/ Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 7c455fbaff7b..f0eb2f265ebe 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2172,6 +2172,7 @@ static struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
.prepare_write = shmem_prepare_write,
.commit_write = simple_commit_write,
#endif
+ .migratepage = migrate_page,
};
static struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {