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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> |
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bootmem.c | ||
fadvise.c | ||
filemap_xip.c | ||
filemap.c | ||
filemap.h | ||
fremap.c | ||
highmem.c | ||
hugetlb.c | ||
internal.h | ||
Kconfig | ||
madvise.c | ||
Makefile | ||
memory_hotplug.c | ||
memory.c | ||
mempolicy.c | ||
mempool.c | ||
migrate.c | ||
mincore.c | ||
mlock.c | ||
mmap.c | ||
mmzone.c | ||
mprotect.c | ||
mremap.c | ||
msync.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
oom_kill.c | ||
page_alloc.c | ||
page_io.c | ||
page-writeback.c | ||
pdflush.c | ||
prio_tree.c | ||
readahead.c | ||
rmap.c | ||
shmem.c | ||
slab.c | ||
slob.c | ||
sparse.c | ||
swap_state.c | ||
swap.c | ||
swapfile.c | ||
thrash.c | ||
tiny-shmem.c | ||
truncate.c | ||
util.c | ||
vmalloc.c | ||
vmscan.c |