mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages
authorShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Wed, 3 May 2017 21:52:32 +0000 (14:52 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 May 2017 22:52:08 +0000 (15:52 -0700)
commit802a3a92ad7ac0b9be9df229dee530a1f0a8039b
tree31e84759f836bdb9a5e464316df3ea7f4c8891f5
parentf7ad2a6cb9f7c4040004bedee84a70a9b985583e
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

[minchan@kernel.org: clean up lazyfree page handling]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303025237.GB3503@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14b8eb1d3f6bf6cc492833f183ac8c304e560484.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/rmap.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/madvise.c
mm/rmap.c
mm/vmscan.c