4 * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Linus Torvalds
6 * Swap reorganised 29.12.95, Stephen Tweedie.
7 * kswapd added: 7.1.96 sct
8 * Removed kswapd_ctl limits, and swap out as many pages as needed
9 * to bring the system back to freepages.high: 2.4.97, Rik van Riel.
10 * Zone aware kswapd started 02/00, Kanoj Sarcar (kanoj@sgi.com).
11 * Multiqueue VM started 5.8.00, Rik van Riel.
15 #include <linux/module.h>
16 #include <linux/slab.h>
17 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
18 #include <linux/swap.h>
19 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
20 #include <linux/init.h>
21 #include <linux/highmem.h>
22 #include <linux/file.h>
23 #include <linux/writeback.h>
24 #include <linux/suspend.h>
25 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
26 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for try_to_release_page(),
27 buffer_heads_over_limit */
28 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
29 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
30 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
31 #include <linux/rmap.h>
32 #include <linux/topology.h>
33 #include <linux/cpu.h>
34 #include <linux/notifier.h>
36 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
37 #include <asm/div64.h>
39 #include <linux/swapops.h>
41 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
43 /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
45 /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
47 /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
49 /* page is clean and locked */
54 /* Ask refill_inactive_zone, or shrink_cache to scan this many pages */
55 unsigned long nr_to_scan;
57 /* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
58 unsigned long nr_scanned;
60 /* Incremented by the number of pages reclaimed */
61 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
63 unsigned long nr_mapped; /* From page_state */
65 /* How many pages shrink_cache() should reclaim */
68 /* Ask shrink_caches, or shrink_zone to scan at this priority */
69 unsigned int priority;
71 /* This context's GFP mask */
72 unsigned int gfp_mask;
78 * The list of shrinker callbacks used by to apply pressure to
83 struct list_head list;
84 int seeks; /* seeks to recreate an obj */
85 long nr; /* objs pending delete */
88 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
90 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
91 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
93 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
96 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
97 prefetch(&prev->_field); \
101 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
104 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
105 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
107 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
110 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
111 prefetchw(&prev->_field); \
115 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
119 * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
121 int vm_swappiness = 60;
122 static long total_memory;
124 static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
125 static DECLARE_MUTEX(shrinker_sem);
128 * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm
130 struct shrinker *set_shrinker(int seeks, shrinker_t theshrinker)
132 struct shrinker *shrinker;
134 shrinker = kmalloc(sizeof(*shrinker), GFP_KERNEL);
136 shrinker->shrinker = theshrinker;
137 shrinker->seeks = seeks;
140 list_add(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
145 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_shrinker);
150 void remove_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
153 list_del(&shrinker->list);
157 EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_shrinker);
159 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
161 * Call the shrink functions to age shrinkable caches
163 * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that it also
164 * takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in mind we age equal
165 * percentages of the lru and ageable caches. This should balance the seeks
166 * generated by these structures.
168 * If the vm encounted mapped pages on the LRU it increase the pressure on
169 * slab to avoid swapping.
171 * We do weird things to avoid (scanned*seeks*entries) overflowing 32 bits.
173 * `lru_pages' represents the number of on-LRU pages in all the zones which
174 * are eligible for the caller's allocation attempt. It is used for balancing
175 * slab reclaim versus page reclaim.
177 static int shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, unsigned int gfp_mask,
178 unsigned long lru_pages)
180 struct shrinker *shrinker;
182 if (down_trylock(&shrinker_sem))
185 list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
186 unsigned long long delta;
188 delta = (4 * scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
189 delta *= (*shrinker->shrinker)(0, gfp_mask);
190 do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
191 shrinker->nr += delta;
192 if (shrinker->nr < 0)
193 shrinker->nr = LONG_MAX; /* It wrapped! */
195 if (shrinker->nr <= SHRINK_BATCH)
197 while (shrinker->nr) {
198 long this_scan = shrinker->nr;
203 shrink_ret = (*shrinker->shrinker)(this_scan, gfp_mask);
204 mod_page_state(slabs_scanned, this_scan);
205 shrinker->nr -= this_scan;
206 if (shrink_ret == -1)
215 /* Must be called with page's rmap lock held. */
216 static inline int page_mapping_inuse(struct page *page)
218 struct address_space *mapping;
220 /* Page is in somebody's page tables. */
221 if (page_mapped(page))
224 /* Be more reluctant to reclaim swapcache than pagecache */
225 if (PageSwapCache(page))
228 mapping = page_mapping(page);
232 /* File is mmap'd by somebody? */
233 return mapping_mapped(mapping);
236 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
238 return page_count(page) - !!PagePrivate(page) == 2;
241 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
243 if (current_is_kswapd())
245 if (current_is_pdflush()) /* This is unlikely, but why not... */
247 if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
249 if (bdi == current->backing_dev_info)
255 * We detected a synchronous write error writing a page out. Probably
256 * -ENOSPC. We need to propagate that into the address_space for a subsequent
257 * fsync(), msync() or close().
259 * The tricky part is that after writepage we cannot touch the mapping: nothing
260 * prevents it from being freed up. But we have a ref on the page and once
261 * that page is locked, the mapping is pinned.
263 * We're allowed to run sleeping lock_page() here because we know the caller has
266 static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
267 struct page *page, int error)
270 if (page_mapping(page) == mapping) {
271 if (error == -ENOSPC)
272 set_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags);
274 set_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags);
280 * pageout is called by shrink_list() for each dirty page. Calls ->writepage().
282 static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
285 * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
286 * will be non-blocking. To prevent this allocation from being
287 * stalled by pagecache activity. But note that there may be
288 * stalls if we need to run get_block(). We could test
289 * PagePrivate for that.
291 * If this process is currently in generic_file_write() against
292 * this page's queue, we can perform writeback even if that
295 * If the page is swapcache, write it back even if that would
296 * block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
297 * swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
298 * congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
299 * See swapfile.c:page_queue_congested().
301 if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page))
305 if (mapping->a_ops->writepage == NULL)
306 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
307 if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping->backing_dev_info))
310 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
312 struct writeback_control wbc = {
313 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
314 .nr_to_write = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
319 SetPageReclaim(page);
320 res = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
322 handle_write_error(mapping, page, res);
323 if (res == WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
324 ClearPageReclaim(page);
325 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
327 if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
328 /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
329 ClearPageReclaim(page);
339 * shrink_list adds the number of reclaimed pages to sc->nr_reclaimed
341 static int shrink_list(struct list_head *page_list, struct scan_control *sc)
343 LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
344 struct pagevec freed_pvec;
350 pagevec_init(&freed_pvec, 1);
351 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
352 struct address_space *mapping;
357 page = lru_to_page(page_list);
358 list_del(&page->lru);
360 if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
363 BUG_ON(PageActive(page));
365 if (PageWriteback(page))
369 /* Double the slab pressure for mapped and swapcache pages */
370 if (page_mapped(page) || PageSwapCache(page))
374 referenced = page_referenced(page);
375 if (referenced && page_mapping_inuse(page)) {
376 /* In active use or really unfreeable. Activate it. */
377 page_map_unlock(page);
378 goto activate_locked;
383 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
384 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
386 * XXX: implement swap clustering ?
388 if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
389 page_map_unlock(page);
390 if (!add_to_swap(page))
391 goto activate_locked;
394 #endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
396 mapping = page_mapping(page);
397 may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
398 (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
401 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
402 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
404 if (page_mapped(page) && mapping) {
405 switch (try_to_unmap(page)) {
407 page_map_unlock(page);
408 goto activate_locked;
410 page_map_unlock(page);
413 ; /* try to free the page below */
416 page_map_unlock(page);
418 if (PageDirty(page)) {
423 if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage)
426 /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
427 switch(pageout(page, mapping)) {
431 goto activate_locked;
433 if (PageWriteback(page) || PageDirty(page))
436 * A synchronous write - probably a ramdisk. Go
437 * ahead and try to reclaim the page.
439 if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
441 if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
443 mapping = page_mapping(page);
445 ; /* try to free the page below */
450 * If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
451 * associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
454 * We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
455 * try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
456 * possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
457 * clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
458 * buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
459 * will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
460 * try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
461 * drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
463 * Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
464 * the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
465 * truncate_complete_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
466 * and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
467 * process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
468 * Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
470 if (PagePrivate(page)) {
471 if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
472 goto activate_locked;
474 * file system may manually remove page from the page
475 * cache in ->releasepage(). Check for this.
477 mapping = page_mapping(page);
478 if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1)
483 goto keep_locked; /* truncate got there first */
485 write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
488 * The non-racy check for busy page. It is critical to check
489 * PageDirty _after_ making sure that the page is freeable and
490 * not in use by anybody. (pagecache + us == 2)
492 if (page_count(page) != 2 || PageDirty(page)) {
493 write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
498 if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
499 swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page->private };
500 __delete_from_swap_cache(page);
501 write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
503 __put_page(page); /* The pagecache ref */
506 #endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
508 __remove_from_page_cache(page);
509 write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
515 if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page))
516 __pagevec_release_nonlru(&freed_pvec);
525 list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
526 BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
528 list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
529 if (pagevec_count(&freed_pvec))
530 __pagevec_release_nonlru(&freed_pvec);
531 mod_page_state(pgactivate, pgactivate);
532 sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaimed;
537 * zone->lru_lock is heavily contented. We relieve it by quickly privatising
538 * a batch of pages and working on them outside the lock. Any pages which were
539 * not freed will be added back to the LRU.
541 * shrink_cache() adds the number of pages reclaimed to sc->nr_reclaimed
543 * For pagecache intensive workloads, the first loop here is the hottest spot
544 * in the kernel (apart from the copy_*_user functions).
546 static void shrink_cache(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
548 LIST_HEAD(page_list);
550 int max_scan = sc->nr_to_scan;
552 pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
555 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
556 while (max_scan > 0) {
562 while (nr_scan++ < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX &&
563 !list_empty(&zone->inactive_list)) {
564 page = lru_to_page(&zone->inactive_list);
566 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page,
567 &zone->inactive_list, flags);
569 if (!TestClearPageLRU(page))
571 list_del(&page->lru);
572 if (get_page_testone(page)) {
574 * It is being freed elsewhere
578 list_add(&page->lru, &zone->inactive_list);
581 list_add(&page->lru, &page_list);
584 zone->nr_inactive -= nr_taken;
585 zone->pages_scanned += nr_taken;
586 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
592 if (current_is_kswapd())
593 mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgscan_kswapd, nr_scan);
595 mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgscan_direct, nr_scan);
596 nr_freed = shrink_list(&page_list, sc);
597 if (current_is_kswapd())
598 mod_page_state(kswapd_steal, nr_freed);
599 mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgsteal, nr_freed);
600 sc->nr_to_reclaim -= nr_freed;
602 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
604 * Put back any unfreeable pages.
606 while (!list_empty(&page_list)) {
607 page = lru_to_page(&page_list);
608 if (TestSetPageLRU(page))
610 list_del(&page->lru);
611 if (PageActive(page))
612 add_page_to_active_list(zone, page);
614 add_page_to_inactive_list(zone, page);
615 if (!pagevec_add(&pvec, page)) {
616 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
617 __pagevec_release(&pvec);
618 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
622 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
624 pagevec_release(&pvec);
628 * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
630 * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
631 * processes, from rmap.
633 * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is
634 * appropriate to hold zone->lru_lock across the whole operation. But if
635 * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we
636 * should drop zone->lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance
637 * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them.
638 * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because
639 * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page.
641 * The downside is that we have to touch page->_count against each page.
642 * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
645 refill_inactive_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
648 int pgdeactivate = 0;
650 int nr_pages = sc->nr_to_scan;
651 LIST_HEAD(l_hold); /* The pages which were snipped off */
652 LIST_HEAD(l_inactive); /* Pages to go onto the inactive_list */
653 LIST_HEAD(l_active); /* Pages to go onto the active_list */
656 int reclaim_mapped = 0;
663 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
664 while (pgscanned < nr_pages && !list_empty(&zone->active_list)) {
665 page = lru_to_page(&zone->active_list);
666 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &zone->active_list, flags);
667 if (!TestClearPageLRU(page))
669 list_del(&page->lru);
670 if (get_page_testone(page)) {
672 * It was already free! release_pages() or put_page()
673 * are about to remove it from the LRU and free it. So
674 * put the refcount back and put the page back on the
679 list_add(&page->lru, &zone->active_list);
681 list_add(&page->lru, &l_hold);
686 zone->nr_active -= pgmoved;
687 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
690 * `distress' is a measure of how much trouble we're having reclaiming
691 * pages. 0 -> no problems. 100 -> great trouble.
693 distress = 100 >> zone->prev_priority;
696 * The point of this algorithm is to decide when to start reclaiming
697 * mapped memory instead of just pagecache. Work out how much memory
700 mapped_ratio = (sc->nr_mapped * 100) / total_memory;
703 * Now decide how much we really want to unmap some pages. The mapped
704 * ratio is downgraded - just because there's a lot of mapped memory
705 * doesn't necessarily mean that page reclaim isn't succeeding.
707 * The distress ratio is important - we don't want to start going oom.
709 * A 100% value of vm_swappiness overrides this algorithm altogether.
711 swap_tendency = mapped_ratio / 2 + distress + vm_swappiness;
714 * Now use this metric to decide whether to start moving mapped memory
715 * onto the inactive list.
717 if (swap_tendency >= 100)
720 while (!list_empty(&l_hold)) {
721 page = lru_to_page(&l_hold);
722 list_del(&page->lru);
723 if (page_mapped(page)) {
724 if (!reclaim_mapped) {
725 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
729 if (page_referenced(page)) {
730 page_map_unlock(page);
731 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
734 page_map_unlock(page);
737 * FIXME: need to consider page_count(page) here if/when we
738 * reap orphaned pages via the LRU (Daniel's locking stuff)
740 if (total_swap_pages == 0 && PageAnon(page)) {
741 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
744 list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
747 pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
749 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
750 while (!list_empty(&l_inactive)) {
751 page = lru_to_page(&l_inactive);
752 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &l_inactive, flags);
753 if (TestSetPageLRU(page))
755 if (!TestClearPageActive(page))
757 list_move(&page->lru, &zone->inactive_list);
759 if (!pagevec_add(&pvec, page)) {
760 zone->nr_inactive += pgmoved;
761 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
762 pgdeactivate += pgmoved;
764 if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
765 pagevec_strip(&pvec);
766 __pagevec_release(&pvec);
767 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
770 zone->nr_inactive += pgmoved;
771 pgdeactivate += pgmoved;
772 if (buffer_heads_over_limit) {
773 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
774 pagevec_strip(&pvec);
775 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
779 while (!list_empty(&l_active)) {
780 page = lru_to_page(&l_active);
781 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &l_active, flags);
782 if (TestSetPageLRU(page))
784 BUG_ON(!PageActive(page));
785 list_move(&page->lru, &zone->active_list);
787 if (!pagevec_add(&pvec, page)) {
788 zone->nr_active += pgmoved;
790 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
791 __pagevec_release(&pvec);
792 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
795 zone->nr_active += pgmoved;
796 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
797 pagevec_release(&pvec);
799 mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgrefill, pgscanned);
800 mod_page_state(pgdeactivate, pgdeactivate);
804 * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
807 shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
809 unsigned long nr_active;
810 unsigned long nr_inactive;
813 * Add one to `nr_to_scan' just to make sure that the kernel will
814 * slowly sift through the active list.
816 zone->nr_scan_active += (zone->nr_active >> sc->priority) + 1;
817 nr_active = zone->nr_scan_active;
818 if (nr_active >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
819 zone->nr_scan_active = 0;
823 zone->nr_scan_inactive += (zone->nr_inactive >> sc->priority) + 1;
824 nr_inactive = zone->nr_scan_inactive;
825 if (nr_inactive >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
826 zone->nr_scan_inactive = 0;
830 sc->nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
832 while (nr_active || nr_inactive) {
834 sc->nr_to_scan = min(nr_active,
835 (unsigned long)SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
836 nr_active -= sc->nr_to_scan;
837 refill_inactive_zone(zone, sc);
841 sc->nr_to_scan = min(nr_inactive,
842 (unsigned long)SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
843 nr_inactive -= sc->nr_to_scan;
844 shrink_cache(zone, sc);
845 if (sc->nr_to_reclaim <= 0)
852 * This is the direct reclaim path, for page-allocating processes. We only
853 * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
856 * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over pages_high. Because:
857 * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
859 * b) The zones may be over pages_high but they must go *over* pages_high to
860 * satisfy the `incremental min' zone defense algorithm.
862 * Returns the number of reclaimed pages.
864 * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
865 * scan then give up on it.
868 shrink_caches(struct zone **zones, struct scan_control *sc)
872 for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
873 struct zone *zone = zones[i];
875 zone->temp_priority = sc->priority;
876 if (zone->prev_priority > sc->priority)
877 zone->prev_priority = sc->priority;
879 if (zone->all_unreclaimable && sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
880 continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
882 shrink_zone(zone, sc);
887 * This is the main entry point to direct page reclaim.
889 * If a full scan of the inactive list fails to free enough memory then we
890 * are "out of memory" and something needs to be killed.
892 * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
893 * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
894 * caller can't do much about. We kick pdflush and take explicit naps in the
895 * hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the allocating task
896 * holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not work, and the
897 * allocation attempt will fail.
899 int try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones,
900 unsigned int gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
904 int total_scanned = 0, total_reclaimed = 0;
905 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
906 struct scan_control sc;
907 unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
910 sc.gfp_mask = gfp_mask;
911 sc.may_writepage = 0;
913 inc_page_state(allocstall);
915 for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
916 struct zone *zone = zones[i];
918 zone->temp_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
919 lru_pages += zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive;
922 for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) {
923 sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);
926 sc.priority = priority;
927 shrink_caches(zones, &sc);
928 shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, lru_pages);
930 sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
931 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
933 if (sc.nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
937 total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
938 total_reclaimed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
941 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
942 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
943 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
944 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
945 * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
947 if (total_scanned > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX + SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX/2) {
948 wakeup_bdflush(laptop_mode ? 0 : total_scanned);
949 sc.may_writepage = 1;
952 /* Take a nap, wait for some writeback to complete */
953 if (sc.nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
954 blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
956 if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY))
957 out_of_memory(gfp_mask);
959 for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++)
960 zones[i]->prev_priority = zones[i]->temp_priority;
965 * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
966 * they are all at pages_high.
968 * If `nr_pages' is non-zero then it is the number of pages which are to be
969 * reclaimed, regardless of the zone occupancies. This is a software suspend
972 * Returns the number of pages which were actually freed.
974 * There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
975 * This can happen if the pages are all mlocked, or if they are all used by
976 * device drivers (say, ZONE_DMA). Or if they are all in use by hugetlb.
977 * What we do is to detect the case where all pages in the zone have been
978 * scanned twice and there has been zero successful reclaim. Mark the zone as
979 * dead and from now on, only perform a short scan. Basically we're polling
980 * the zone for when the problem goes away.
982 * kswapd scans the zones in the highmem->normal->dma direction. It skips
983 * zones which have free_pages > pages_high, but once a zone is found to have
984 * free_pages <= pages_high, we scan that zone and the lower zones regardless
985 * of the number of free pages in the lower zones. This interoperates with
986 * the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging of pages is balanced
989 static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int nr_pages)
991 int to_free = nr_pages;
994 int total_scanned = 0, total_reclaimed = 0;
995 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
996 struct scan_control sc;
998 sc.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL;
999 sc.may_writepage = 0;
1000 sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);
1002 inc_page_state(pageoutrun);
1004 for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
1005 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
1007 zone->temp_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
1010 for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) {
1011 int all_zones_ok = 1;
1012 int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
1013 unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
1015 if (nr_pages == 0) {
1017 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
1018 * zone which needs scanning
1020 for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
1021 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
1023 if (zone->all_unreclaimable &&
1024 priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
1027 if (zone->free_pages <= zone->pages_high) {
1034 end_zone = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
1037 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
1038 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
1040 lru_pages += zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive;
1044 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
1045 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
1047 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
1048 * direction. This prevents the page allocator from allocating
1049 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
1050 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
1052 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
1053 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
1055 if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
1058 if (nr_pages == 0) { /* Not software suspend */
1059 if (zone->free_pages <= zone->pages_high)
1062 zone->temp_priority = priority;
1063 if (zone->prev_priority > priority)
1064 zone->prev_priority = priority;
1066 sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
1067 sc.priority = priority;
1068 shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
1069 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
1070 shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, GFP_KERNEL, lru_pages);
1071 sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
1072 total_reclaimed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
1073 if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
1075 if (zone->pages_scanned > zone->present_pages * 2)
1076 zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
1078 * If we've done a decent amount of scanning and
1079 * the reclaim ratio is low, start doing writepage
1080 * even in laptop mode
1082 if (total_scanned > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 2 &&
1083 total_scanned > total_reclaimed+total_reclaimed/2)
1084 sc.may_writepage = 1;
1086 if (nr_pages && to_free > total_reclaimed)
1087 continue; /* swsusp: need to do more work */
1089 break; /* kswapd: all done */
1091 * OK, kswapd is getting into trouble. Take a nap, then take
1092 * another pass across the zones.
1094 if (total_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
1095 blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
1098 for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
1099 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
1101 zone->prev_priority = zone->temp_priority;
1103 return total_reclaimed;
1107 * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
1108 * from the init process.
1110 * This basically trickles out pages so that we have _some_
1111 * free memory available even if there is no other activity
1112 * that frees anything up. This is needed for things like routing
1113 * etc, where we otherwise might have all activity going on in
1114 * asynchronous contexts that cannot page things out.
1116 * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators
1117 * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter.
1121 pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t*)p;
1122 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
1124 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
1125 .reclaimed_slab = 0,
1129 daemonize("kswapd%d", pgdat->node_id);
1130 cpumask = node_to_cpumask(pgdat->node_id);
1131 if (!cpus_empty(cpumask))
1132 set_cpus_allowed(tsk, cpumask);
1133 current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
1136 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
1137 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
1138 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
1139 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
1141 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
1142 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
1143 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
1144 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
1145 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
1147 tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD;
1150 if (current->flags & PF_FREEZE)
1151 refrigerator(PF_FREEZE);
1152 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
1154 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
1156 balance_pgdat(pgdat, 0);
1162 * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
1164 void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone)
1166 if (zone->free_pages > zone->pages_low)
1168 if (!waitqueue_active(&zone->zone_pgdat->kswapd_wait))
1170 wake_up_interruptible(&zone->zone_pgdat->kswapd_wait);
1175 * Try to free `nr_pages' of memory, system-wide. Returns the number of freed
1178 int shrink_all_memory(int nr_pages)
1181 int nr_to_free = nr_pages;
1183 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
1184 .reclaimed_slab = 0,
1187 current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
1188 for_each_pgdat(pgdat) {
1190 freed = balance_pgdat(pgdat, nr_to_free);
1192 nr_to_free -= freed;
1193 if (nr_to_free <= 0)
1196 current->reclaim_state = NULL;
1201 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
1202 /* It's optimal to keep kswapds on the same CPUs as their memory, but
1203 not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
1204 away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
1205 restore their cpu bindings. */
1206 static int __devinit cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
1207 unsigned long action,
1213 if (action == CPU_ONLINE) {
1214 for_each_pgdat(pgdat) {
1215 mask = node_to_cpumask(pgdat->node_id);
1216 if (any_online_cpu(mask) != NR_CPUS)
1217 /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
1218 set_cpus_allowed(pgdat->kswapd, mask);
1223 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
1225 static int __init kswapd_init(void)
1229 for_each_pgdat(pgdat)
1231 = find_task_by_pid(kernel_thread(kswapd, pgdat, CLONE_KERNEL));
1232 total_memory = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
1233 hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);
1237 module_init(kswapd_init)