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    Subject[PATCH 07/29] mm: emergency pool
    Provide means to reserve a specific amount of pages.

    The emergency pool is separated from the min watermark because ALLOC_HARDER
    and ALLOC_HIGH modify the watermark in a relative way and thus do not ensure
    a strict minimum.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    ---
    include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +
    mm/page_alloc.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
    mm/vmstat.c | 6 +--
    3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

    Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mmzone.h
    ===================================================================
    --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h
    +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mmzone.h
    @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ enum zone_type {

    struct zone {
    /* Fields commonly accessed by the page allocator */
    - unsigned long pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
    + unsigned long pages_emerg, pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
    /*
    * We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be freeable
    * or/and it will be released eventually, so to avoid totally wasting several
    @@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio_sysctl_han
    struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
    int sysctl_min_slab_ratio_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
    struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
    +int adjust_memalloc_reserve(int pages);

    extern int numa_zonelist_order_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
    struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
    Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
    ===================================================================
    --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
    +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
    @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ static char * const zone_names[MAX_NR_ZO

    static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(min_free_lock);
    int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
    +static DEFINE_MUTEX(var_free_mutex);
    +int var_free_kbytes;

    unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
    unsigned long __meminitdata nr_all_pages;
    @@ -1252,7 +1254,7 @@ int zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, in
    if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)
    min -= min / 4;

    - if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
    + if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx] + z->pages_emerg)
    return 0;
    for (o = 0; o < order; o++) {
    /* At the next order, this order's pages become unavailable */
    @@ -1733,8 +1735,8 @@ nofail_alloc:
    nopage:
    if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit()) {
    printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: page allocation failure."
    - " order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
    - p->comm, order, gfp_mask);
    + " order:%d, mode:0x%x, alloc_flags:0x%x, pflags:0x%x\n",
    + p->comm, order, gfp_mask, alloc_flags, p->flags);
    dump_stack();
    show_mem();
    }
    @@ -1952,9 +1954,9 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
    "\n",
    zone->name,
    K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES)),
    - K(zone->pages_min),
    - K(zone->pages_low),
    - K(zone->pages_high),
    + K(zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_min),
    + K(zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_low),
    + K(zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_high),
    K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE)),
    K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE)),
    K(zone->present_pages),
    @@ -4113,7 +4115,7 @@ static void calculate_totalreserve_pages
    }

    /* we treat pages_high as reserved pages. */
    - max += zone->pages_high;
    + max += zone->pages_high + zone->pages_emerg;

    if (max > zone->present_pages)
    max = zone->present_pages;
    @@ -4170,7 +4172,8 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserv
    */
    static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
    {
    - unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
    + unsigned pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
    + unsigned pages_emerg = var_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
    unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0;
    struct zone *zone;
    unsigned long flags;
    @@ -4182,11 +4185,13 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(v
    }

    for_each_zone(zone) {
    - u64 tmp;
    + u64 tmp, tmp_emerg;

    spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
    tmp = (u64)pages_min * zone->present_pages;
    do_div(tmp, lowmem_pages);
    + tmp_emerg = (u64)pages_emerg * zone->present_pages;
    + do_div(tmp_emerg, lowmem_pages);
    if (is_highmem(zone)) {
    /*
    * __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't
    @@ -4205,12 +4210,14 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(v
    if (min_pages > 128)
    min_pages = 128;
    zone->pages_min = min_pages;
    + zone->pages_emerg = 0;
    } else {
    /*
    * If it's a lowmem zone, reserve a number of pages
    * proportionate to the zone's size.
    */
    zone->pages_min = tmp;
    + zone->pages_emerg = tmp_emerg;
    }

    zone->pages_low = zone->pages_min + (tmp >> 2);
    @@ -4232,6 +4239,63 @@ void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
    spin_unlock_irqrestore(&min_free_lock, flags);
    }

    +static void __adjust_memalloc_reserve(int pages)
    +{
    + var_free_kbytes += pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
    + BUG_ON(var_free_kbytes < 0);
    + setup_per_zone_pages_min();
    +}
    +
    +static int test_reserve_limits(void)
    +{
    + struct zone *zone;
    + int node;
    +
    + for_each_zone(zone)
    + wakeup_kswapd(zone, 0);
    +
    + for_each_online_node(node) {
    + struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL, 0);
    + if (!page)
    + return -ENOMEM;
    +
    + __free_page(page);
    + }
    +
    + return 0;
    +}
    +
    +/**
    + * adjust_memalloc_reserve - adjust the memalloc reserve
    + * @pages: number of pages to add
    + *
    + * It adds a number of pages to the memalloc reserve; if
    + * the number was positive it kicks reclaim into action to
    + * satisfy the higher watermarks.
    + *
    + * returns -ENOMEM when it failed to satisfy the watermarks.
    + */
    +int adjust_memalloc_reserve(int pages)
    +{
    + int err = 0;
    +
    + mutex_lock(&var_free_mutex);
    + __adjust_memalloc_reserve(pages);
    + if (pages > 0) {
    + err = test_reserve_limits();
    + if (err) {
    + __adjust_memalloc_reserve(-pages);
    + goto unlock;
    + }
    + }
    + printk(KERN_DEBUG "Emergency reserve: %d\n", var_free_kbytes);
    +
    +unlock:
    + mutex_unlock(&var_free_mutex);
    + return err;
    +}
    +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(adjust_memalloc_reserve);
    +
    /*
    * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
    *
    Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c
    ===================================================================
    --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmstat.c
    +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c
    @@ -752,9 +752,9 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct s
    "\n spanned %lu"
    "\n present %lu",
    zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES),
    - zone->pages_min,
    - zone->pages_low,
    - zone->pages_high,
    + zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_min,
    + zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_low,
    + zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_high,
    zone->pages_scanned,
    zone->nr_scan_active, zone->nr_scan_inactive,
    zone->spanned_pages,
    --



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