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From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
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Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shariq Hasnain <shariq.hasnain@linaro.org>,
	Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 11/15] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilize watermarks
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:00:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327568457-27734-12-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327568457-27734-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

alloc_contig_range() performs memory allocation so it also should keep
track on keeping the correct level of memory watermarks. This commit adds
a call to *_slowpath style reclaim to grab enough pages to make sure that
the final collection of contiguous pages from freelists will not starve
the system.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e35d06b..05eaa82 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5613,6 +5613,34 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Trigger memory pressure bump to reclaim some pages in order to be able to
+ * allocate 'count' pages in single page units. Does similar work as
+ *__alloc_pages_slowpath() function.
+ */
+static int __reclaim_pages(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int count)
+{
+	enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+	struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(0, gfp_mask);
+	int did_some_progress = 0;
+	int order = 1;
+	unsigned long watermark;
+
+	/* Obey watermarks as if the page was being allocated */
+	watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + count;
+	while (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0)) {
+		wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, zone_idx(zone));
+
+		did_some_progress = __perform_reclaim(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
+						      NULL);
+		if (!did_some_progress) {
+			/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
+			out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, NULL);
+		}
+	}
+	return count;
+}
+
 /**
  * alloc_contig_range() -- tries to allocate given range of pages
  * @start:	start PFN to allocate
@@ -5707,6 +5735,14 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		goto done;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Reclaim enough pages to make sure that contiguous allocation
+	 * will not starve the system.
+	 */
+	__reclaim_pages(page_zone(pfn_to_page(outer_start)),
+		        GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, end-start);
+
+	/* Grab isolated pages from freelists. */
 	outer_end = isolate_freepages_range(outer_start, end);
 	if (!outer_end) {
 		ret = -EBUSY;
-- 
1.7.1.569.g6f426

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-26  9:00 [PATCHv19 00/15] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 01/15] mm: page_alloc: remove trailing whitespace Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 10:59   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 02/15] mm: page_alloc: update migrate type of pages on pcp when isolating Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 11:15   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-30 15:41     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-30 16:14       ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-31 16:23         ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-02 12:47           ` Mel Gorman
2012-02-02 19:53             ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-02-03  9:31               ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-03 11:27               ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 03/15] mm: compaction: introduce isolate_migratepages_range() Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 11:24   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-30 12:42     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-30 13:25       ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 04/15] mm: compaction: introduce isolate_freepages_range() Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 11:48   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-30 11:55     ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 05/15] mm: compaction: export some of the functions Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 11:57   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-30 12:33     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 06/15] mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range() Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 12:11   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 07/15] mm: page_alloc: change fallbacks array handling Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 12:12   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 08/15] mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 12:35   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-30 13:06     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-30 14:52       ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 09/15] mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 10/15] mm: extract reclaim code from __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim() Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30 12:42   ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-26  9:00 ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2012-01-30 13:05   ` [PATCH 11/15] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilize watermarks Mel Gorman
2012-01-31 17:15     ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 12/15] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-27  9:44   ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2012-01-27 10:53     ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-27 14:27       ` Clark, Rob
2012-01-27 14:51         ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-27 14:59           ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2012-01-27 15:17             ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-28 18:57               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2012-01-30  7:43                 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-30  9:16                   ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2012-01-27 14:56       ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 13/15] X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 14/15] ARM: " Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-26  9:00 ` [PATCH 15/15] ARM: Samsung: use CMA for 2 memory banks for s5p-mfc device Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-26 15:31 ` [PATCHv19 00/15] Contiguous Memory Allocator Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-26 15:38   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-26 15:48   ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-01-28  0:26   ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-29 18:09     ` Rob Clark
2012-01-29 20:32       ` Anca Emanuel
2012-01-29 20:51     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-30 13:25     ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-30 15:43       ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-01-31 17:17         ` Benjamin Gaignard
2012-02-01  8:47           ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-10 18:10     ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-03 12:18 [PATCHv20 " Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-03 12:18 ` [PATCH 11/15] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilize watermarks Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-03 14:04   ` Mel Gorman
2012-02-08 15:14     ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-02-10 11:19       ` Mel Gorman
2012-02-10 15:36         ` Marek Szyprowski

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