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A weakness of the page->mlock_count approach is the need for lruvec lock while holding page table lock. That is not an overhead we would allow on normal pages, but I think acceptable just for pages in an mlocked area. But let's try to amortize the extra cost by gathering on per-cpu pagevec before acquiring the lruvec lock. I have an unverified conjecture that the mlock pagevec might work out well for delaying the mlock processing of new file pages until they have got off lru_cache_add()'s pagevec and on to LRU. The initialization of page->mlock_count is subject to races and awkward: 0 or !!PageMlocked or 1? Was it wrong even in the implementation before this commit, which just widens the window? I haven't gone back to think it through. Maybe someone can point out a better way to initialize it. Bringing lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable()'s mlock initialization into mm/mlock.c has helped: mlock_new_page(), using the mlock pagevec, rather than lru_cache_add()'s pagevec. Experimented with various orderings: the right thing seems to be for mlock_page() and mlock_new_page() to TestSetPageMlocked before adding to pagevec, but munlock_page() to leave TestClearPageMlocked to the later pagevec processing. Dropped the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail)s this time around: they have made their point, and the thp_nr_page()s already contain a VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS() for that. This still leaves acquiring lruvec locks under page table lock each time the pagevec fills (or a THP is added): which I suppose is rather silly, since they sit on pagevec waiting to be processed long after page table lock has been dropped; but I'm disinclined to uglify the calling sequence until some load shows an actual problem with it (nothing wrong with taking lruvec lock under page table lock, just "nicer" to do it less). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.