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1 /*
2 * linux/mm/vmscan.c
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.
14 #include <linux/mm.h>
15 #include <linux/module.h>
16 #include <linux/gfp.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/vmstat.h>
23 #include <linux/file.h>
24 #include <linux/writeback.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/backing-dev.h>
30 #include <linux/rmap.h>
31 #include <linux/topology.h>
32 #include <linux/cpu.h>
33 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
34 #include <linux/compaction.h>
35 #include <linux/notifier.h>
36 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
37 #include <linux/delay.h>
38 #include <linux/kthread.h>
39 #include <linux/freezer.h>
40 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
41 #include <linux/delayacct.h>
42 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
43 #include <linux/oom.h>
44 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
46 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
47 #include <asm/div64.h>
49 #include <linux/swapops.h>
51 #include "internal.h"
53 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
54 #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
56 struct scan_control {
57 /* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
58 unsigned long nr_scanned;
60 /* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
61 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
63 /* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
64 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
66 unsigned long hibernation_mode;
68 /* This context's GFP mask */
69 gfp_t gfp_mask;
71 int may_writepage;
73 /* Can mapped pages be reclaimed? */
74 int may_unmap;
76 /* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
77 int may_swap;
79 int order;
81 /* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
82 int priority;
85 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
86 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
88 struct mem_cgroup *target_mem_cgroup;
91 * Nodemask of nodes allowed by the caller. If NULL, all nodes
92 * are scanned.
94 nodemask_t *nodemask;
97 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
99 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
100 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
101 do { \
102 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
103 struct page *prev; \
105 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
106 prefetch(&prev->_field); \
108 } while (0)
109 #else
110 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
111 #endif
113 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
114 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
115 do { \
116 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
117 struct page *prev; \
119 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
120 prefetchw(&prev->_field); \
122 } while (0)
123 #else
124 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
125 #endif
128 * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
130 int vm_swappiness = 60;
131 long vm_total_pages; /* The total number of pages which the VM controls */
133 static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
134 static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
136 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
137 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
139 return !sc->target_mem_cgroup;
141 #else
142 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
144 return true;
146 #endif
148 static unsigned long get_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
150 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
151 return mem_cgroup_get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
153 return zone_page_state(lruvec_zone(lruvec), NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
157 * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm
159 void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
161 atomic_long_set(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
162 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
163 list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
164 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
166 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
169 * Remove one
171 void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
173 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
174 list_del(&shrinker->list);
175 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
177 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
179 static inline int do_shrinker_shrink(struct shrinker *shrinker,
180 struct shrink_control *sc,
181 unsigned long nr_to_scan)
183 sc->nr_to_scan = nr_to_scan;
184 return (*shrinker->shrink)(shrinker, sc);
187 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
189 * Call the shrink functions to age shrinkable caches
191 * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that it also
192 * takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in mind we age equal
193 * percentages of the lru and ageable caches. This should balance the seeks
194 * generated by these structures.
196 * If the vm encountered mapped pages on the LRU it increase the pressure on
197 * slab to avoid swapping.
199 * We do weird things to avoid (scanned*seeks*entries) overflowing 32 bits.
201 * `lru_pages' represents the number of on-LRU pages in all the zones which
202 * are eligible for the caller's allocation attempt. It is used for balancing
203 * slab reclaim versus page reclaim.
205 * Returns the number of slab objects which we shrunk.
207 unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
208 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned,
209 unsigned long lru_pages)
211 struct shrinker *shrinker;
212 unsigned long ret = 0;
214 if (nr_pages_scanned == 0)
215 nr_pages_scanned = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
217 if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem)) {
218 /* Assume we'll be able to shrink next time */
219 ret = 1;
220 goto out;
223 list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
224 unsigned long long delta;
225 long total_scan;
226 long max_pass;
227 int shrink_ret = 0;
228 long nr;
229 long new_nr;
230 long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
231 : SHRINK_BATCH;
233 max_pass = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink, 0);
234 if (max_pass <= 0)
235 continue;
238 * copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
239 * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
240 * don't also do this scanning work.
242 nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
244 total_scan = nr;
245 delta = (4 * nr_pages_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
246 delta *= max_pass;
247 do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
248 total_scan += delta;
249 if (total_scan < 0) {
250 printk(KERN_ERR "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to "
251 "delete nr=%ld\n",
252 shrinker->shrink, total_scan);
253 total_scan = max_pass;
257 * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
258 * due to large numbers of GFP_NOFS allocations causing the
259 * shrinkers to return -1 all the time. This results in a large
260 * nr being built up so when a shrink that can do some work
261 * comes along it empties the entire cache due to nr >>>
262 * max_pass. This is bad for sustaining a working set in
263 * memory.
265 * Hence only allow the shrinker to scan the entire cache when
266 * a large delta change is calculated directly.
268 if (delta < max_pass / 4)
269 total_scan = min(total_scan, max_pass / 2);
272 * Avoid risking looping forever due to too large nr value:
273 * never try to free more than twice the estimate number of
274 * freeable entries.
276 if (total_scan > max_pass * 2)
277 total_scan = max_pass * 2;
279 trace_mm_shrink_slab_start(shrinker, shrink, nr,
280 nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages,
281 max_pass, delta, total_scan);
283 while (total_scan >= batch_size) {
284 int nr_before;
286 nr_before = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink, 0);
287 shrink_ret = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink,
288 batch_size);
289 if (shrink_ret == -1)
290 break;
291 if (shrink_ret < nr_before)
292 ret += nr_before - shrink_ret;
293 count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, batch_size);
294 total_scan -= batch_size;
296 cond_resched();
300 * move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a
301 * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
302 * scan, there is no need to do an update.
304 if (total_scan > 0)
305 new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan,
306 &shrinker->nr_in_batch);
307 else
308 new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_in_batch);
310 trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker, shrink_ret, nr, new_nr);
312 up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
313 out:
314 cond_resched();
315 return ret;
318 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
321 * A freeable page cache page is referenced only by the caller
322 * that isolated the page, the page cache radix tree and
323 * optional buffer heads at page->private.
325 return page_count(page) - page_has_private(page) == 2;
328 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
329 struct scan_control *sc)
331 if (current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE)
332 return 1;
333 if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
334 return 1;
335 if (bdi == current->backing_dev_info)
336 return 1;
337 return 0;
341 * We detected a synchronous write error writing a page out. Probably
342 * -ENOSPC. We need to propagate that into the address_space for a subsequent
343 * fsync(), msync() or close().
345 * The tricky part is that after writepage we cannot touch the mapping: nothing
346 * prevents it from being freed up. But we have a ref on the page and once
347 * that page is locked, the mapping is pinned.
349 * We're allowed to run sleeping lock_page() here because we know the caller has
350 * __GFP_FS.
352 static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
353 struct page *page, int error)
355 lock_page(page);
356 if (page_mapping(page) == mapping)
357 mapping_set_error(mapping, error);
358 unlock_page(page);
361 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
362 typedef enum {
363 /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
364 PAGE_KEEP,
365 /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
366 PAGE_ACTIVATE,
367 /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
368 PAGE_SUCCESS,
369 /* page is clean and locked */
370 PAGE_CLEAN,
371 } pageout_t;
374 * pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
375 * Calls ->writepage().
377 static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
378 struct scan_control *sc)
381 * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
382 * will be non-blocking. To prevent this allocation from being
383 * stalled by pagecache activity. But note that there may be
384 * stalls if we need to run get_block(). We could test
385 * PagePrivate for that.
387 * If this process is currently in __generic_file_aio_write() against
388 * this page's queue, we can perform writeback even if that
389 * will block.
391 * If the page is swapcache, write it back even if that would
392 * block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
393 * swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
394 * congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
396 if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page))
397 return PAGE_KEEP;
398 if (!mapping) {
400 * Some data journaling orphaned pages can have
401 * page->mapping == NULL while being dirty with clean buffers.
403 if (page_has_private(page)) {
404 if (try_to_free_buffers(page)) {
405 ClearPageDirty(page);
406 printk("%s: orphaned page\n", __func__);
407 return PAGE_CLEAN;
410 return PAGE_KEEP;
412 if (mapping->a_ops->writepage == NULL)
413 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
414 if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping->backing_dev_info, sc))
415 return PAGE_KEEP;
417 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
418 int res;
419 struct writeback_control wbc = {
420 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
421 .nr_to_write = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
422 .range_start = 0,
423 .range_end = LLONG_MAX,
424 .for_reclaim = 1,
427 SetPageReclaim(page);
428 res = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
429 if (res < 0)
430 handle_write_error(mapping, page, res);
431 if (res == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
432 ClearPageReclaim(page);
433 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
436 if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
437 /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
438 ClearPageReclaim(page);
440 trace_mm_vmscan_writepage(page, trace_reclaim_flags(page));
441 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE);
442 return PAGE_SUCCESS;
445 return PAGE_CLEAN;
449 * Same as remove_mapping, but if the page is removed from the mapping, it
450 * gets returned with a refcount of 0.
452 static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
454 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
455 BUG_ON(mapping != page_mapping(page));
457 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
459 * The non racy check for a busy page.
461 * Must be careful with the order of the tests. When someone has
462 * a ref to the page, it may be possible that they dirty it then
463 * drop the reference. So if PageDirty is tested before page_count
464 * here, then the following race may occur:
466 * get_user_pages(&page);
467 * [user mapping goes away]
468 * write_to(page);
469 * !PageDirty(page) [good]
470 * SetPageDirty(page);
471 * put_page(page);
472 * !page_count(page) [good, discard it]
474 * [oops, our write_to data is lost]
476 * Reversing the order of the tests ensures such a situation cannot
477 * escape unnoticed. The smp_rmb is needed to ensure the page->flags
478 * load is not satisfied before that of page->_count.
480 * Note that if SetPageDirty is always performed via set_page_dirty,
481 * and thus under tree_lock, then this ordering is not required.
483 if (!page_freeze_refs(page, 2))
484 goto cannot_free;
485 /* note: atomic_cmpxchg in page_freeze_refs provides the smp_rmb */
486 if (unlikely(PageDirty(page))) {
487 page_unfreeze_refs(page, 2);
488 goto cannot_free;
491 if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
492 swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
493 __delete_from_swap_cache(page);
494 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
495 swapcache_free(swap, page);
496 } else {
497 void (*freepage)(struct page *);
499 freepage = mapping->a_ops->freepage;
501 __delete_from_page_cache(page);
502 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
503 mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
505 if (freepage != NULL)
506 freepage(page);
509 return 1;
511 cannot_free:
512 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
513 return 0;
517 * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if
518 * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was
519 * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on
520 * this page.
522 int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
524 if (__remove_mapping(mapping, page)) {
526 * Unfreezing the refcount with 1 rather than 2 effectively
527 * drops the pagecache ref for us without requiring another
528 * atomic operation.
530 page_unfreeze_refs(page, 1);
531 return 1;
533 return 0;
537 * putback_lru_page - put previously isolated page onto appropriate LRU list
538 * @page: page to be put back to appropriate lru list
540 * Add previously isolated @page to appropriate LRU list.
541 * Page may still be unevictable for other reasons.
543 * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
545 void putback_lru_page(struct page *page)
547 int lru;
548 int active = !!TestClearPageActive(page);
549 int was_unevictable = PageUnevictable(page);
551 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
553 redo:
554 ClearPageUnevictable(page);
556 if (page_evictable(page)) {
558 * For evictable pages, we can use the cache.
559 * In event of a race, worst case is we end up with an
560 * unevictable page on [in]active list.
561 * We know how to handle that.
563 lru = active + page_lru_base_type(page);
564 lru_cache_add_lru(page, lru);
565 } else {
567 * Put unevictable pages directly on zone's unevictable
568 * list.
570 lru = LRU_UNEVICTABLE;
571 add_page_to_unevictable_list(page);
573 * When racing with an mlock or AS_UNEVICTABLE clearing
574 * (page is unlocked) make sure that if the other thread
575 * does not observe our setting of PG_lru and fails
576 * isolation/check_move_unevictable_pages,
577 * we see PG_mlocked/AS_UNEVICTABLE cleared below and move
578 * the page back to the evictable list.
580 * The other side is TestClearPageMlocked() or shmem_lock().
582 smp_mb();
586 * page's status can change while we move it among lru. If an evictable
587 * page is on unevictable list, it never be freed. To avoid that,
588 * check after we added it to the list, again.
590 if (lru == LRU_UNEVICTABLE && page_evictable(page)) {
591 if (!isolate_lru_page(page)) {
592 put_page(page);
593 goto redo;
595 /* This means someone else dropped this page from LRU
596 * So, it will be freed or putback to LRU again. There is
597 * nothing to do here.
601 if (was_unevictable && lru != LRU_UNEVICTABLE)
602 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED);
603 else if (!was_unevictable && lru == LRU_UNEVICTABLE)
604 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGCULLED);
606 put_page(page); /* drop ref from isolate */
609 enum page_references {
610 PAGEREF_RECLAIM,
611 PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN,
612 PAGEREF_KEEP,
613 PAGEREF_ACTIVATE,
616 static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page,
617 struct scan_control *sc)
619 int referenced_ptes, referenced_page;
620 unsigned long vm_flags;
622 referenced_ptes = page_referenced(page, 1, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
623 &vm_flags);
624 referenced_page = TestClearPageReferenced(page);
627 * Mlock lost the isolation race with us. Let try_to_unmap()
628 * move the page to the unevictable list.
630 if (vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
631 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
633 if (referenced_ptes) {
634 if (PageSwapBacked(page))
635 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
637 * All mapped pages start out with page table
638 * references from the instantiating fault, so we need
639 * to look twice if a mapped file page is used more
640 * than once.
642 * Mark it and spare it for another trip around the
643 * inactive list. Another page table reference will
644 * lead to its activation.
646 * Note: the mark is set for activated pages as well
647 * so that recently deactivated but used pages are
648 * quickly recovered.
650 SetPageReferenced(page);
652 if (referenced_page || referenced_ptes > 1)
653 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
656 * Activate file-backed executable pages after first usage.
658 if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC)
659 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
661 return PAGEREF_KEEP;
664 /* Reclaim if clean, defer dirty pages to writeback */
665 if (referenced_page && !PageSwapBacked(page))
666 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN;
668 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
672 * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
674 static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
675 struct zone *zone,
676 struct scan_control *sc,
677 enum ttu_flags ttu_flags,
678 unsigned long *ret_nr_dirty,
679 unsigned long *ret_nr_writeback,
680 bool force_reclaim)
682 LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
683 LIST_HEAD(free_pages);
684 int pgactivate = 0;
685 unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
686 unsigned long nr_congested = 0;
687 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
688 unsigned long nr_writeback = 0;
690 cond_resched();
692 mem_cgroup_uncharge_start();
693 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
694 struct address_space *mapping;
695 struct page *page;
696 int may_enter_fs;
697 enum page_references references = PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN;
699 cond_resched();
701 page = lru_to_page(page_list);
702 list_del(&page->lru);
704 if (!trylock_page(page))
705 goto keep;
707 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page));
708 VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page) != zone);
710 sc->nr_scanned++;
712 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page)))
713 goto cull_mlocked;
715 if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
716 goto keep_locked;
718 /* Double the slab pressure for mapped and swapcache pages */
719 if (page_mapped(page) || PageSwapCache(page))
720 sc->nr_scanned++;
722 may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
723 (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
725 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
727 * memcg doesn't have any dirty pages throttling so we
728 * could easily OOM just because too many pages are in
729 * writeback and there is nothing else to reclaim.
731 * Check __GFP_IO, certainly because a loop driver
732 * thread might enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits
733 * on a page for which it is needed to do the write
734 * (loop masks off __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason);
735 * but more thought would probably show more reasons.
737 * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into
738 * the FS, just waiting on its writeback completion.
739 * Worryingly, ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with
740 * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so
741 * testing may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them.
743 if (global_reclaim(sc) ||
744 !PageReclaim(page) || !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) {
746 * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
747 * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then
748 * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted
749 * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter
750 * enough to care. What we do want is for this
751 * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg
752 * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will
753 * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM;
754 * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim.
756 SetPageReclaim(page);
757 nr_writeback++;
758 goto keep_locked;
760 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
763 if (!force_reclaim)
764 references = page_check_references(page, sc);
766 switch (references) {
767 case PAGEREF_ACTIVATE:
768 goto activate_locked;
769 case PAGEREF_KEEP:
770 goto keep_locked;
771 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM:
772 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN:
773 ; /* try to reclaim the page below */
777 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
778 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
780 if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
781 if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
782 goto keep_locked;
783 if (!add_to_swap(page))
784 goto activate_locked;
785 may_enter_fs = 1;
788 mapping = page_mapping(page);
791 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
792 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
794 if (page_mapped(page) && mapping) {
795 switch (try_to_unmap(page, ttu_flags)) {
796 case SWAP_FAIL:
797 goto activate_locked;
798 case SWAP_AGAIN:
799 goto keep_locked;
800 case SWAP_MLOCK:
801 goto cull_mlocked;
802 case SWAP_SUCCESS:
803 ; /* try to free the page below */
807 if (PageDirty(page)) {
808 nr_dirty++;
811 * Only kswapd can writeback filesystem pages to
812 * avoid risk of stack overflow but do not writeback
813 * unless under significant pressure.
815 if (page_is_file_cache(page) &&
816 (!current_is_kswapd() ||
817 sc->priority >= DEF_PRIORITY - 2)) {
819 * Immediately reclaim when written back.
820 * Similar in principal to deactivate_page()
821 * except we already have the page isolated
822 * and know it's dirty
824 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE);
825 SetPageReclaim(page);
827 goto keep_locked;
830 if (references == PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN)
831 goto keep_locked;
832 if (!may_enter_fs)
833 goto keep_locked;
834 if (!sc->may_writepage)
835 goto keep_locked;
837 /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
838 switch (pageout(page, mapping, sc)) {
839 case PAGE_KEEP:
840 nr_congested++;
841 goto keep_locked;
842 case PAGE_ACTIVATE:
843 goto activate_locked;
844 case PAGE_SUCCESS:
845 if (PageWriteback(page))
846 goto keep;
847 if (PageDirty(page))
848 goto keep;
851 * A synchronous write - probably a ramdisk. Go
852 * ahead and try to reclaim the page.
854 if (!trylock_page(page))
855 goto keep;
856 if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
857 goto keep_locked;
858 mapping = page_mapping(page);
859 case PAGE_CLEAN:
860 ; /* try to free the page below */
865 * If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
866 * associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
867 * the page as well.
869 * We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
870 * try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
871 * possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
872 * clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
873 * buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
874 * will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
875 * try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
876 * drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
878 * Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
879 * the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
880 * truncate_complete_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
881 * and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
882 * process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
883 * Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
885 if (page_has_private(page)) {
886 if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
887 goto activate_locked;
888 if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1) {
889 unlock_page(page);
890 if (put_page_testzero(page))
891 goto free_it;
892 else {
894 * rare race with speculative reference.
895 * the speculative reference will free
896 * this page shortly, so we may
897 * increment nr_reclaimed here (and
898 * leave it off the LRU).
900 nr_reclaimed++;
901 continue;
906 if (!mapping || !__remove_mapping(mapping, page))
907 goto keep_locked;
910 * At this point, we have no other references and there is
911 * no way to pick any more up (removed from LRU, removed
912 * from pagecache). Can use non-atomic bitops now (and
913 * we obviously don't have to worry about waking up a process
914 * waiting on the page lock, because there are no references.
916 __clear_page_locked(page);
917 free_it:
918 nr_reclaimed++;
921 * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would
922 * appear not as the counts should be low
924 list_add(&page->lru, &free_pages);
925 continue;
927 cull_mlocked:
928 if (PageSwapCache(page))
929 try_to_free_swap(page);
930 unlock_page(page);
931 putback_lru_page(page);
932 continue;
934 activate_locked:
935 /* Not a candidate for swapping, so reclaim swap space. */
936 if (PageSwapCache(page) && vm_swap_full())
937 try_to_free_swap(page);
938 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page));
939 SetPageActive(page);
940 pgactivate++;
941 keep_locked:
942 unlock_page(page);
943 keep:
944 list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
945 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page));
949 * Tag a zone as congested if all the dirty pages encountered were
950 * backed by a congested BDI. In this case, reclaimers should just
951 * back off and wait for congestion to clear because further reclaim
952 * will encounter the same problem
954 if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested && global_reclaim(sc))
955 zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
957 free_hot_cold_page_list(&free_pages, 1);
959 list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
960 count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate);
961 mem_cgroup_uncharge_end();
962 *ret_nr_dirty += nr_dirty;
963 *ret_nr_writeback += nr_writeback;
964 return nr_reclaimed;
967 unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
968 struct list_head *page_list)
970 struct scan_control sc = {
971 .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
972 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
973 .may_unmap = 1,
975 unsigned long ret, dummy1, dummy2;
976 struct page *page, *next;
977 LIST_HEAD(clean_pages);
979 list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, page_list, lru) {
980 if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page)) {
981 ClearPageActive(page);
982 list_move(&page->lru, &clean_pages);
986 ret = shrink_page_list(&clean_pages, zone, &sc,
987 TTU_UNMAP|TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS,
988 &dummy1, &dummy2, true);
989 list_splice(&clean_pages, page_list);
990 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, -ret);
991 return ret;
995 * Attempt to remove the specified page from its LRU. Only take this page
996 * if it is of the appropriate PageActive status. Pages which are being
997 * freed elsewhere are also ignored.
999 * page: page to consider
1000 * mode: one of the LRU isolation modes defined above
1002 * returns 0 on success, -ve errno on failure.
1004 int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
1006 int ret = -EINVAL;
1008 /* Only take pages on the LRU. */
1009 if (!PageLRU(page))
1010 return ret;
1012 /* Compaction should not handle unevictable pages but CMA can do so */
1013 if (PageUnevictable(page) && !(mode & ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE))
1014 return ret;
1016 ret = -EBUSY;
1019 * To minimise LRU disruption, the caller can indicate that it only
1020 * wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
1021 * blocking - clean pages for the most part.
1023 * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
1024 * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
1026 * ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
1027 * that it is possible to migrate without blocking
1029 if (mode & (ISOLATE_CLEAN|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE)) {
1030 /* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
1031 if (PageWriteback(page))
1032 return ret;
1034 if (PageDirty(page)) {
1035 struct address_space *mapping;
1037 /* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
1038 if (mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN)
1039 return ret;
1042 * Only pages without mappings or that have a
1043 * ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
1044 * without blocking
1046 mapping = page_mapping(page);
1047 if (mapping && !mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
1048 return ret;
1052 if ((mode & ISOLATE_UNMAPPED) && page_mapped(page))
1053 return ret;
1055 if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
1057 * Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
1058 * sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
1059 * page release code relies on it.
1061 ClearPageLRU(page);
1062 ret = 0;
1065 return ret;
1069 * zone->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that
1070 * shrink the lists perform better by taking out a batch of pages
1071 * and working on them outside the LRU lock.
1073 * For pagecache intensive workloads, this function is the hottest
1074 * spot in the kernel (apart from copy_*_user functions).
1076 * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function.
1078 * @nr_to_scan: The number of pages to look through on the list.
1079 * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from.
1080 * @dst: The temp list to put pages on to.
1081 * @nr_scanned: The number of pages that were scanned.
1082 * @sc: The scan_control struct for this reclaim session
1083 * @mode: One of the LRU isolation modes
1084 * @lru: LRU list id for isolating
1086 * returns how many pages were moved onto *@dst.
1088 static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1089 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *dst,
1090 unsigned long *nr_scanned, struct scan_control *sc,
1091 isolate_mode_t mode, enum lru_list lru)
1093 struct list_head *src = &lruvec->lists[lru];
1094 unsigned long nr_taken = 0;
1095 unsigned long scan;
1097 for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++) {
1098 struct page *page;
1099 int nr_pages;
1101 page = lru_to_page(src);
1102 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, src, flags);
1104 VM_BUG_ON(!PageLRU(page));
1106 switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) {
1107 case 0:
1108 nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1109 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, -nr_pages);
1110 list_move(&page->lru, dst);
1111 nr_taken += nr_pages;
1112 break;
1114 case -EBUSY:
1115 /* else it is being freed elsewhere */
1116 list_move(&page->lru, src);
1117 continue;
1119 default:
1120 BUG();
1124 *nr_scanned = scan;
1125 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc->order, nr_to_scan, scan,
1126 nr_taken, mode, is_file_lru(lru));
1127 return nr_taken;
1131 * isolate_lru_page - tries to isolate a page from its LRU list
1132 * @page: page to isolate from its LRU list
1134 * Isolates a @page from an LRU list, clears PageLRU and adjusts the
1135 * vmstat statistic corresponding to whatever LRU list the page was on.
1137 * Returns 0 if the page was removed from an LRU list.
1138 * Returns -EBUSY if the page was not on an LRU list.
1140 * The returned page will have PageLRU() cleared. If it was found on
1141 * the active list, it will have PageActive set. If it was found on
1142 * the unevictable list, it will have the PageUnevictable bit set. That flag
1143 * may need to be cleared by the caller before letting the page go.
1145 * The vmstat statistic corresponding to the list on which the page was
1146 * found will be decremented.
1148 * Restrictions:
1149 * (1) Must be called with an elevated refcount on the page. This is a
1150 * fundamentnal difference from isolate_lru_pages (which is called
1151 * without a stable reference).
1152 * (2) the lru_lock must not be held.
1153 * (3) interrupts must be enabled.
1155 int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
1157 int ret = -EBUSY;
1159 VM_BUG_ON(!page_count(page));
1161 if (PageLRU(page)) {
1162 struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
1163 struct lruvec *lruvec;
1165 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1166 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1167 if (PageLRU(page)) {
1168 int lru = page_lru(page);
1169 get_page(page);
1170 ClearPageLRU(page);
1171 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1172 ret = 0;
1174 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1176 return ret;
1180 * Are there way too many processes in the direct reclaim path already?
1182 static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
1183 struct scan_control *sc)
1185 unsigned long inactive, isolated;
1187 if (current_is_kswapd())
1188 return 0;
1190 if (!global_reclaim(sc))
1191 return 0;
1193 if (file) {
1194 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
1195 isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
1196 } else {
1197 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
1198 isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
1201 return isolated > inactive;
1204 static noinline_for_stack void
1205 putback_inactive_pages(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *page_list)
1207 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1208 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1209 LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free);
1212 * Put back any unfreeable pages.
1214 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
1215 struct page *page = lru_to_page(page_list);
1216 int lru;
1218 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
1219 list_del(&page->lru);
1220 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
1221 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1222 putback_lru_page(page);
1223 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1224 continue;
1227 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1229 SetPageLRU(page);
1230 lru = page_lru(page);
1231 add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1233 if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
1234 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1235 int numpages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1236 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += numpages;
1238 if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
1239 __ClearPageLRU(page);
1240 __ClearPageActive(page);
1241 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1243 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
1244 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1245 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page))(page);
1246 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1247 } else
1248 list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
1253 * To save our caller's stack, now use input list for pages to free.
1255 list_splice(&pages_to_free, page_list);
1259 * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone(). It returns the number
1260 * of reclaimed pages
1262 static noinline_for_stack unsigned long
1263 shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
1264 struct scan_control *sc, enum lru_list lru)
1266 LIST_HEAD(page_list);
1267 unsigned long nr_scanned;
1268 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
1269 unsigned long nr_taken;
1270 unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
1271 unsigned long nr_writeback = 0;
1272 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = 0;
1273 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1274 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1275 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1277 while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(zone, file, sc))) {
1278 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1280 /* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
1281 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1282 return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
1285 lru_add_drain();
1287 if (!sc->may_unmap)
1288 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
1289 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1290 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
1292 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1294 nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &page_list,
1295 &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru);
1297 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_taken);
1298 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
1300 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1301 zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned;
1302 if (current_is_kswapd())
1303 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scanned);
1304 else
1305 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone, nr_scanned);
1307 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1309 if (nr_taken == 0)
1310 return 0;
1312 nr_reclaimed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, zone, sc, TTU_UNMAP,
1313 &nr_dirty, &nr_writeback, false);
1315 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1317 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
1319 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1320 if (current_is_kswapd())
1321 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_KSWAPD, zone,
1322 nr_reclaimed);
1323 else
1324 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_DIRECT, zone,
1325 nr_reclaimed);
1328 putback_inactive_pages(lruvec, &page_list);
1330 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
1332 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1334 free_hot_cold_page_list(&page_list, 1);
1337 * If reclaim is isolating dirty pages under writeback, it implies
1338 * that the long-lived page allocation rate is exceeding the page
1339 * laundering rate. Either the global limits are not being effective
1340 * at throttling processes due to the page distribution throughout
1341 * zones or there is heavy usage of a slow backing device. The
1342 * only option is to throttle from reclaim context which is not ideal
1343 * as there is no guarantee the dirtying process is throttled in the
1344 * same way balance_dirty_pages() manages.
1346 * This scales the number of dirty pages that must be under writeback
1347 * before throttling depending on priority. It is a simple backoff
1348 * function that has the most effect in the range DEF_PRIORITY to
1349 * DEF_PRIORITY-2 which is the priority reclaim is considered to be
1350 * in trouble and reclaim is considered to be in trouble.
1352 * DEF_PRIORITY 100% isolated pages must be PageWriteback to throttle
1353 * DEF_PRIORITY-1 50% must be PageWriteback
1354 * DEF_PRIORITY-2 25% must be PageWriteback, kswapd in trouble
1355 * ...
1356 * DEF_PRIORITY-6 For SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX isolated pages, throttle if any
1357 * isolated page is PageWriteback
1359 if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback >=
1360 (nr_taken >> (DEF_PRIORITY - sc->priority)))
1361 wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1363 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive(zone->zone_pgdat->node_id,
1364 zone_idx(zone),
1365 nr_scanned, nr_reclaimed,
1366 sc->priority,
1367 trace_shrink_flags(file));
1368 return nr_reclaimed;
1372 * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
1374 * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
1375 * processes, from rmap.
1377 * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is
1378 * appropriate to hold zone->lru_lock across the whole operation. But if
1379 * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we
1380 * should drop zone->lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance
1381 * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them.
1382 * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because
1383 * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page.
1385 * The downside is that we have to touch page->_count against each page.
1386 * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
1389 static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
1390 struct list_head *list,
1391 struct list_head *pages_to_free,
1392 enum lru_list lru)
1394 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1395 unsigned long pgmoved = 0;
1396 struct page *page;
1397 int nr_pages;
1399 while (!list_empty(list)) {
1400 page = lru_to_page(list);
1401 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1403 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
1404 SetPageLRU(page);
1406 nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1407 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, nr_pages);
1408 list_move(&page->lru, &lruvec->lists[lru]);
1409 pgmoved += nr_pages;
1411 if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
1412 __ClearPageLRU(page);
1413 __ClearPageActive(page);
1414 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1416 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
1417 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1418 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page))(page);
1419 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1420 } else
1421 list_add(&page->lru, pages_to_free);
1424 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, pgmoved);
1425 if (!is_active_lru(lru))
1426 __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, pgmoved);
1429 static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1430 struct lruvec *lruvec,
1431 struct scan_control *sc,
1432 enum lru_list lru)
1434 unsigned long nr_taken;
1435 unsigned long nr_scanned;
1436 unsigned long vm_flags;
1437 LIST_HEAD(l_hold); /* The pages which were snipped off */
1438 LIST_HEAD(l_active);
1439 LIST_HEAD(l_inactive);
1440 struct page *page;
1441 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1442 unsigned long nr_rotated = 0;
1443 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = 0;
1444 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1445 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1447 lru_add_drain();
1449 if (!sc->may_unmap)
1450 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
1451 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1452 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
1454 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1456 nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &l_hold,
1457 &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru);
1458 if (global_reclaim(sc))
1459 zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned;
1461 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
1463 __count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL, zone, nr_scanned);
1464 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_taken);
1465 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
1466 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1468 while (!list_empty(&l_hold)) {
1469 cond_resched();
1470 page = lru_to_page(&l_hold);
1471 list_del(&page->lru);
1473 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
1474 putback_lru_page(page);
1475 continue;
1478 if (unlikely(buffer_heads_over_limit)) {
1479 if (page_has_private(page) && trylock_page(page)) {
1480 if (page_has_private(page))
1481 try_to_release_page(page, 0);
1482 unlock_page(page);
1486 if (page_referenced(page, 0, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
1487 &vm_flags)) {
1488 nr_rotated += hpage_nr_pages(page);
1490 * Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
1491 * give them one more trip around the active list. So
1492 * that executable code get better chances to stay in
1493 * memory under moderate memory pressure. Anon pages
1494 * are not likely to be evicted by use-once streaming
1495 * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages,
1496 * so we ignore them here.
1498 if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && page_is_file_cache(page)) {
1499 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
1500 continue;
1504 ClearPageActive(page); /* we are de-activating */
1505 list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
1509 * Move pages back to the lru list.
1511 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1513 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as rotated,
1514 * even though only some of them are actually re-activated. This
1515 * helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous pages in
1516 * get_scan_ratio.
1518 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += nr_rotated;
1520 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_active, &l_hold, lru);
1521 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_inactive, &l_hold, lru - LRU_ACTIVE);
1522 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
1523 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1525 free_hot_cold_page_list(&l_hold, 1);
1528 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
1529 static int inactive_anon_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
1531 unsigned long active, inactive;
1533 active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON);
1534 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
1536 if (inactive * zone->inactive_ratio < active)
1537 return 1;
1539 return 0;
1543 * inactive_anon_is_low - check if anonymous pages need to be deactivated
1544 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1546 * Returns true if the zone does not have enough inactive anon pages,
1547 * meaning some active anon pages need to be deactivated.
1549 static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1552 * If we don't have swap space, anonymous page deactivation
1553 * is pointless.
1555 if (!total_swap_pages)
1556 return 0;
1558 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
1559 return mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec);
1561 return inactive_anon_is_low_global(lruvec_zone(lruvec));
1563 #else
1564 static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1566 return 0;
1568 #endif
1570 static int inactive_file_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
1572 unsigned long active, inactive;
1574 active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
1575 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
1577 return (active > inactive);
1581 * inactive_file_is_low - check if file pages need to be deactivated
1582 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1584 * When the system is doing streaming IO, memory pressure here
1585 * ensures that active file pages get deactivated, until more
1586 * than half of the file pages are on the inactive list.
1588 * Once we get to that situation, protect the system's working
1589 * set from being evicted by disabling active file page aging.
1591 * This uses a different ratio than the anonymous pages, because
1592 * the page cache uses a use-once replacement algorithm.
1594 static int inactive_file_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1596 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
1597 return mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(lruvec);
1599 return inactive_file_is_low_global(lruvec_zone(lruvec));
1602 static int inactive_list_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
1604 if (is_file_lru(lru))
1605 return inactive_file_is_low(lruvec);
1606 else
1607 return inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec);
1610 static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1611 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
1613 if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
1614 if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, lru))
1615 shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
1616 return 0;
1619 return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
1622 static int vmscan_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc)
1624 if (global_reclaim(sc))
1625 return vm_swappiness;
1626 return mem_cgroup_swappiness(sc->target_mem_cgroup);
1630 * Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
1631 * scanned. The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
1632 * by looking at the fraction of the pages scanned we did rotate back
1633 * onto the active list instead of evict.
1635 * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
1636 * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
1638 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
1639 unsigned long *nr)
1641 unsigned long anon, file, free;
1642 unsigned long anon_prio, file_prio;
1643 unsigned long ap, fp;
1644 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1645 u64 fraction[2], denominator;
1646 enum lru_list lru;
1647 int noswap = 0;
1648 bool force_scan = false;
1649 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1652 * If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0. This
1653 * results in no scanning on this priority and a potential
1654 * priority drop. Global direct reclaim can go to the next
1655 * zone and tends to have no problems. Global kswapd is for
1656 * zone balancing and it needs to scan a minimum amount. When
1657 * reclaiming for a memcg, a priority drop can cause high
1658 * latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
1659 * well.
1661 if (current_is_kswapd() && zone->all_unreclaimable)
1662 force_scan = true;
1663 if (!global_reclaim(sc))
1664 force_scan = true;
1666 /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
1667 if (!sc->may_swap || (nr_swap_pages <= 0)) {
1668 noswap = 1;
1669 fraction[0] = 0;
1670 fraction[1] = 1;
1671 denominator = 1;
1672 goto out;
1675 anon = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
1676 get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
1677 file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
1678 get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
1680 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1681 free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
1682 /* If we have very few page cache pages,
1683 force-scan anon pages. */
1684 if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
1685 fraction[0] = 1;
1686 fraction[1] = 0;
1687 denominator = 1;
1688 goto out;
1693 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
1694 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
1696 anon_prio = vmscan_swappiness(sc);
1697 file_prio = 200 - anon_prio;
1700 * OK, so we have swap space and a fair amount of page cache
1701 * pages. We use the recently rotated / recently scanned
1702 * ratios to determine how valuable each cache is.
1704 * Because workloads change over time (and to avoid overflow)
1705 * we keep these statistics as a floating average, which ends
1706 * up weighing recent references more than old ones.
1708 * anon in [0], file in [1]
1710 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1711 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] > anon / 4)) {
1712 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] /= 2;
1713 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] /= 2;
1716 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] > file / 4)) {
1717 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] /= 2;
1718 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] /= 2;
1722 * The amount of pressure on anon vs file pages is inversely
1723 * proportional to the fraction of recently scanned pages on
1724 * each list that were recently referenced and in active use.
1726 ap = anon_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] + 1);
1727 ap /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] + 1;
1729 fp = file_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] + 1);
1730 fp /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] + 1;
1731 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1733 fraction[0] = ap;
1734 fraction[1] = fp;
1735 denominator = ap + fp + 1;
1736 out:
1737 for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
1738 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1739 unsigned long scan;
1741 scan = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
1742 if (sc->priority || noswap || !vmscan_swappiness(sc)) {
1743 scan >>= sc->priority;
1744 if (!scan && force_scan)
1745 scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
1746 scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
1748 nr[lru] = scan;
1752 /* Use reclaim/compaction for costly allocs or under memory pressure */
1753 static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct scan_control *sc)
1755 if (COMPACTION_BUILD && sc->order &&
1756 (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER ||
1757 sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2))
1758 return true;
1760 return false;
1764 * Reclaim/compaction is used for high-order allocation requests. It reclaims
1765 * order-0 pages before compacting the zone. should_continue_reclaim() returns
1766 * true if more pages should be reclaimed such that when the page allocator
1767 * calls try_to_compact_zone() that it will have enough free pages to succeed.
1768 * It will give up earlier than that if there is difficulty reclaiming pages.
1770 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct lruvec *lruvec,
1771 unsigned long nr_reclaimed,
1772 unsigned long nr_scanned,
1773 struct scan_control *sc)
1775 unsigned long pages_for_compaction;
1776 unsigned long inactive_lru_pages;
1778 /* If not in reclaim/compaction mode, stop */
1779 if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc))
1780 return false;
1782 /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
1783 if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT) {
1785 * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
1786 * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
1787 * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
1788 * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
1790 if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
1791 return false;
1792 } else {
1794 * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
1795 * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
1796 * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
1797 * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
1798 * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
1799 * the resulting allocation attempt fails
1801 if (!nr_reclaimed)
1802 return false;
1806 * If we have not reclaimed enough pages for compaction and the
1807 * inactive lists are large enough, continue reclaiming
1809 pages_for_compaction = (2UL << sc->order);
1810 inactive_lru_pages = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
1811 if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
1812 inactive_lru_pages += get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
1813 if (sc->nr_reclaimed < pages_for_compaction &&
1814 inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction)
1815 return true;
1817 /* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
1818 switch (compaction_suitable(lruvec_zone(lruvec), sc->order)) {
1819 case COMPACT_PARTIAL:
1820 case COMPACT_CONTINUE:
1821 return false;
1822 default:
1823 return true;
1828 * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
1830 static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
1832 unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS];
1833 unsigned long nr_to_scan;
1834 enum lru_list lru;
1835 unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
1836 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim = sc->nr_to_reclaim;
1837 struct blk_plug plug;
1839 restart:
1840 nr_reclaimed = 0;
1841 nr_scanned = sc->nr_scanned;
1842 get_scan_count(lruvec, sc, nr);
1844 blk_start_plug(&plug);
1845 while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
1846 nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
1847 for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
1848 if (nr[lru]) {
1849 nr_to_scan = min_t(unsigned long,
1850 nr[lru], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
1851 nr[lru] -= nr_to_scan;
1853 nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(lru, nr_to_scan,
1854 lruvec, sc);
1858 * On large memory systems, scan >> priority can become
1859 * really large. This is fine for the starting priority;
1860 * we want to put equal scanning pressure on each zone.
1861 * However, if the VM has a harder time of freeing pages,
1862 * with multiple processes reclaiming pages, the total
1863 * freeing target can get unreasonably large.
1865 if (nr_reclaimed >= nr_to_reclaim &&
1866 sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY)
1867 break;
1869 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
1870 sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_reclaimed;
1873 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
1874 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
1876 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec))
1877 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
1878 sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
1880 /* reclaim/compaction might need reclaim to continue */
1881 if (should_continue_reclaim(lruvec, nr_reclaimed,
1882 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc))
1883 goto restart;
1885 throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
1888 static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
1890 struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
1891 struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie reclaim = {
1892 .zone = zone,
1893 .priority = sc->priority,
1895 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
1897 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim);
1898 do {
1899 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
1901 shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc);
1904 * Limit reclaim has historically picked one memcg and
1905 * scanned it with decreasing priority levels until
1906 * nr_to_reclaim had been reclaimed. This priority
1907 * cycle is thus over after a single memcg.
1909 * Direct reclaim and kswapd, on the other hand, have
1910 * to scan all memory cgroups to fulfill the overall
1911 * scan target for the zone.
1913 if (!global_reclaim(sc)) {
1914 mem_cgroup_iter_break(root, memcg);
1915 break;
1917 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg, &reclaim);
1918 } while (memcg);
1921 /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
1922 static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
1924 unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
1925 bool watermark_ok;
1927 /* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
1928 if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
1929 return false;
1932 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
1933 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
1934 * there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
1935 * a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
1937 balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone),
1938 (zone->present_pages + KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO-1) /
1939 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO);
1940 watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << sc->order);
1941 watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
1944 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
1945 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
1947 if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
1948 return watermark_ok;
1950 /* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
1951 if (!compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order))
1952 return false;
1954 return watermark_ok;
1958 * This is the direct reclaim path, for page-allocating processes. We only
1959 * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
1960 * request.
1962 * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone).
1963 * Because:
1964 * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
1965 * allocation or
1966 * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones
1967 * must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min'
1968 * zone defense algorithm.
1970 * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
1971 * scan then give up on it.
1973 * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
1974 * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
1975 * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
1976 * further reclaim.
1978 static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
1980 struct zoneref *z;
1981 struct zone *zone;
1982 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
1983 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
1984 bool aborted_reclaim = false;
1987 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
1988 * allowed level, force direct reclaim to scan the highmem zone as
1989 * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads
1991 if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
1992 sc->gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
1994 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
1995 gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
1996 if (!populated_zone(zone))
1997 continue;
1999 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
2000 * to global LRU.
2002 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
2003 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
2004 continue;
2005 if (zone->all_unreclaimable &&
2006 sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
2007 continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
2008 if (COMPACTION_BUILD) {
2010 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
2011 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
2012 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
2013 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
2014 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
2015 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
2016 * page allocations.
2018 if (compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
2019 aborted_reclaim = true;
2020 continue;
2024 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
2025 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
2026 * scanned pages. This works for global memory pressure
2027 * and balancing, not for a memcg's limit.
2029 nr_soft_scanned = 0;
2030 nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
2031 sc->order, sc->gfp_mask,
2032 &nr_soft_scanned);
2033 sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
2034 sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
2035 /* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
2038 shrink_zone(zone, sc);
2041 return aborted_reclaim;
2044 static bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
2046 return zone->pages_scanned < zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6;
2049 /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
2050 static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
2051 struct scan_control *sc)
2053 struct zoneref *z;
2054 struct zone *zone;
2056 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
2057 gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
2058 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2059 continue;
2060 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
2061 continue;
2062 if (!zone->all_unreclaimable)
2063 return false;
2066 return true;
2070 * This is the main entry point to direct page reclaim.
2072 * If a full scan of the inactive list fails to free enough memory then we
2073 * are "out of memory" and something needs to be killed.
2075 * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
2076 * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
2077 * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit
2078 * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the
2079 * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not
2080 * work, and the allocation attempt will fail.
2082 * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
2083 * else, the number of pages reclaimed
2085 static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
2086 struct scan_control *sc,
2087 struct shrink_control *shrink)
2089 unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
2090 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
2091 struct zoneref *z;
2092 struct zone *zone;
2093 unsigned long writeback_threshold;
2094 bool aborted_reclaim;
2096 delayacct_freepages_start();
2098 if (global_reclaim(sc))
2099 count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
2101 do {
2102 sc->nr_scanned = 0;
2103 aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
2106 * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from
2107 * over limit cgroups
2109 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
2110 unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
2111 for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist,
2112 gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask)) {
2113 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
2114 continue;
2116 lru_pages += zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
2119 shrink_slab(shrink, sc->nr_scanned, lru_pages);
2120 if (reclaim_state) {
2121 sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
2122 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
2125 total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
2126 if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
2127 goto out;
2130 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
2131 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
2132 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
2133 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
2134 * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
2136 writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
2137 if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
2138 wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode ? 0 : total_scanned,
2139 WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
2140 sc->may_writepage = 1;
2143 /* Take a nap, wait for some writeback to complete */
2144 if (!sc->hibernation_mode && sc->nr_scanned &&
2145 sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) {
2146 struct zone *preferred_zone;
2148 first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask),
2149 &cpuset_current_mems_allowed,
2150 &preferred_zone);
2151 wait_iff_congested(preferred_zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
2153 } while (--sc->priority >= 0);
2155 out:
2156 delayacct_freepages_end();
2158 if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
2159 return sc->nr_reclaimed;
2162 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
2163 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
2164 * check.
2166 if (oom_killer_disabled)
2167 return 0;
2169 /* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
2170 if (aborted_reclaim)
2171 return 1;
2173 /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
2174 if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc))
2175 return 1;
2177 return 0;
2180 static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat)
2182 struct zone *zone;
2183 unsigned long pfmemalloc_reserve = 0;
2184 unsigned long free_pages = 0;
2185 int i;
2186 bool wmark_ok;
2188 for (i = 0; i <= ZONE_NORMAL; i++) {
2189 zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
2190 pfmemalloc_reserve += min_wmark_pages(zone);
2191 free_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
2194 wmark_ok = free_pages > pfmemalloc_reserve / 2;
2196 /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */
2197 if (!wmark_ok && waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait)) {
2198 pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx,
2199 (enum zone_type)ZONE_NORMAL);
2200 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
2203 return wmark_ok;
2207 * Throttle direct reclaimers if backing storage is backed by the network
2208 * and the PFMEMALLOC reserve for the preferred node is getting dangerously
2209 * depleted. kswapd will continue to make progress and wake the processes
2210 * when the low watermark is reached.
2212 * Returns true if a fatal signal was delivered during throttling. If this
2213 * happens, the page allocator should not consider triggering the OOM killer.
2215 static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist,
2216 nodemask_t *nodemask)
2218 struct zone *zone;
2219 int high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
2220 pg_data_t *pgdat;
2223 * Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly
2224 * responsible for cleaning pages necessary for reclaim to make forward
2225 * progress. kjournald for example may enter direct reclaim while
2226 * committing a transaction where throttling it could forcing other
2227 * processes to block on log_wait_commit().
2229 if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
2230 goto out;
2233 * If a fatal signal is pending, this process should not throttle.
2234 * It should return quickly so it can exit and free its memory
2236 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
2237 goto out;
2239 /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */
2240 first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, NULL, &zone);
2241 pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
2242 if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
2243 goto out;
2245 /* Account for the throttling */
2246 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE);
2249 * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it
2250 * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal
2251 * transaction in the case of a filesystem like ext[3|4]. In this case,
2252 * it is not safe to block on pfmemalloc_wait as kswapd could be
2253 * blocked waiting on the same lock. Instead, throttle for up to a
2254 * second before continuing.
2256 if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
2257 wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait,
2258 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat), HZ);
2260 goto check_pending;
2263 /* Throttle until kswapd wakes the process */
2264 wait_event_killable(zone->zone_pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait,
2265 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat));
2267 check_pending:
2268 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
2269 return true;
2271 out:
2272 return false;
2275 unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
2276 gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
2278 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
2279 struct scan_control sc = {
2280 .gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
2281 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2282 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2283 .may_unmap = 1,
2284 .may_swap = 1,
2285 .order = order,
2286 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2287 .target_mem_cgroup = NULL,
2288 .nodemask = nodemask,
2290 struct shrink_control shrink = {
2291 .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
2295 * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal was delivered while throttled.
2296 * 1 is returned so that the page allocator does not OOM kill at this
2297 * point.
2299 if (throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, zonelist, nodemask))
2300 return 1;
2302 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin(order,
2303 sc.may_writepage,
2304 gfp_mask);
2306 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc, &shrink);
2308 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
2310 return nr_reclaimed;
2313 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
2315 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
2316 gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
2317 struct zone *zone,
2318 unsigned long *nr_scanned)
2320 struct scan_control sc = {
2321 .nr_scanned = 0,
2322 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2323 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2324 .may_unmap = 1,
2325 .may_swap = !noswap,
2326 .order = 0,
2327 .priority = 0,
2328 .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
2330 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2332 sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
2333 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
2335 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin(sc.order,
2336 sc.may_writepage,
2337 sc.gfp_mask);
2340 * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
2341 * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
2342 * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_zone from balance_pgdat
2343 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
2344 * the priority and make it zero.
2346 shrink_lruvec(lruvec, &sc);
2348 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
2350 *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
2351 return sc.nr_reclaimed;
2354 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
2355 gfp_t gfp_mask,
2356 bool noswap)
2358 struct zonelist *zonelist;
2359 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
2360 int nid;
2361 struct scan_control sc = {
2362 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2363 .may_unmap = 1,
2364 .may_swap = !noswap,
2365 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2366 .order = 0,
2367 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2368 .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
2369 .nodemask = NULL, /* we don't care the placement */
2370 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
2371 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK),
2373 struct shrink_control shrink = {
2374 .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
2378 * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
2379 * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
2380 * scan does not need to be the current node.
2382 nid = mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(memcg);
2384 zonelist = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists;
2386 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin(0,
2387 sc.may_writepage,
2388 sc.gfp_mask);
2390 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc, &shrink);
2392 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
2394 return nr_reclaimed;
2396 #endif
2398 static void age_active_anon(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
2400 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
2402 if (!total_swap_pages)
2403 return;
2405 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
2406 do {
2407 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2409 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec))
2410 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
2411 sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
2413 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL);
2414 } while (memcg);
2417 static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
2418 unsigned long balance_gap, int classzone_idx)
2420 if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone) +
2421 balance_gap, classzone_idx, 0))
2422 return false;
2424 if (COMPACTION_BUILD && order && !compaction_suitable(zone, order))
2425 return false;
2427 return true;
2431 * pgdat_balanced is used when checking if a node is balanced for high-order
2432 * allocations. Only zones that meet watermarks and are in a zone allowed
2433 * by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The total of
2434 * balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by classzone_idx
2435 * for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to be balanced
2436 * for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are imbalanced zones.
2437 * The choice of 25% is due to
2438 * o a 16M DMA zone that is balanced will not balance a zone on any
2439 * reasonable sized machine
2440 * o On all other machines, the top zone must be at least a reasonable
2441 * percentage of the middle zones. For example, on 32-bit x86, highmem
2442 * would need to be at least 256M for it to be balance a whole node.
2443 * Similarly, on x86-64 the Normal zone would need to be at least 1G
2444 * to balance a node on its own. These seemed like reasonable ratios.
2446 static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long balanced_pages,
2447 int classzone_idx)
2449 unsigned long present_pages = 0;
2450 int i;
2452 for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++)
2453 present_pages += pgdat->node_zones[i].present_pages;
2455 /* A special case here: if zone has no page, we think it's balanced */
2456 return balanced_pages >= (present_pages >> 2);
2460 * Prepare kswapd for sleeping. This verifies that there are no processes
2461 * waiting in throttle_direct_reclaim() and that watermarks have been met.
2463 * Returns true if kswapd is ready to sleep
2465 static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
2466 int classzone_idx)
2468 int i;
2469 unsigned long balanced = 0;
2470 bool all_zones_ok = true;
2472 /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
2473 if (remaining)
2474 return false;
2477 * There is a potential race between when kswapd checks its watermarks
2478 * and a process gets throttled. There is also a potential race if
2479 * processes get throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits therby
2480 * balancing the zones that causes kswapd to miss a wakeup. If kswapd
2481 * is going to sleep, no process should be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait
2482 * so wake them now if necessary. If necessary, processes will wake
2483 * kswapd and get throttled again
2485 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait)) {
2486 wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
2487 return false;
2490 /* Check the watermark levels */
2491 for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++) {
2492 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2494 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2495 continue;
2498 * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
2499 * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
2500 * they must be considered balanced here as well if kswapd
2501 * is to sleep
2503 if (zone->all_unreclaimable) {
2504 balanced += zone->present_pages;
2505 continue;
2508 if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, i))
2509 all_zones_ok = false;
2510 else
2511 balanced += zone->present_pages;
2515 * For high-order requests, the balanced zones must contain at least
2516 * 25% of the nodes pages for kswapd to sleep. For order-0, all zones
2517 * must be balanced
2519 if (order)
2520 return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, classzone_idx);
2521 else
2522 return all_zones_ok;
2526 * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
2527 * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone).
2529 * Returns the final order kswapd was reclaiming at
2531 * There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
2532 * This can happen if the pages are all mlocked, or if they are all used by
2533 * device drivers (say, ZONE_DMA). Or if they are all in use by hugetlb.
2534 * What we do is to detect the case where all pages in the zone have been
2535 * scanned twice and there has been zero successful reclaim. Mark the zone as
2536 * dead and from now on, only perform a short scan. Basically we're polling
2537 * the zone for when the problem goes away.
2539 * kswapd scans the zones in the highmem->normal->dma direction. It skips
2540 * zones which have free_pages > high_wmark_pages(zone), but once a zone is
2541 * found to have free_pages <= high_wmark_pages(zone), we scan that zone and the
2542 * lower zones regardless of the number of free pages in the lower zones. This
2543 * interoperates with the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging
2544 * of pages is balanced across the zones.
2546 static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
2547 int *classzone_idx)
2549 int all_zones_ok;
2550 unsigned long balanced;
2551 int i;
2552 int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
2553 unsigned long total_scanned;
2554 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
2555 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
2556 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
2557 struct scan_control sc = {
2558 .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
2559 .may_unmap = 1,
2560 .may_swap = 1,
2562 * kswapd doesn't want to be bailed out while reclaim. because
2563 * we want to put equal scanning pressure on each zone.
2565 .nr_to_reclaim = ULONG_MAX,
2566 .order = order,
2567 .target_mem_cgroup = NULL,
2569 struct shrink_control shrink = {
2570 .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
2572 loop_again:
2573 total_scanned = 0;
2574 sc.priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
2575 sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
2576 sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
2577 count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
2579 do {
2580 unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
2581 int has_under_min_watermark_zone = 0;
2583 all_zones_ok = 1;
2584 balanced = 0;
2587 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
2588 * zone which needs scanning
2590 for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
2591 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2593 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2594 continue;
2596 if (zone->all_unreclaimable &&
2597 sc.priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
2598 continue;
2601 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give
2602 * pages a chance to be referenced before reclaiming.
2604 age_active_anon(zone, &sc);
2607 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine
2608 * exceeds the maximum allowed level and this node
2609 * has a highmem zone, force kswapd to reclaim from
2610 * it to relieve lowmem pressure.
2612 if (buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem_idx(i)) {
2613 end_zone = i;
2614 break;
2617 if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0)) {
2618 end_zone = i;
2619 break;
2620 } else {
2621 /* If balanced, clear the congested flag */
2622 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
2625 if (i < 0)
2626 goto out;
2628 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
2629 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2631 lru_pages += zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
2635 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
2636 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
2638 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
2639 * direction. This prevents the page allocator from allocating
2640 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
2641 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
2643 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
2644 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2645 int nr_slab, testorder;
2646 unsigned long balance_gap;
2648 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2649 continue;
2651 if (zone->all_unreclaimable &&
2652 sc.priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
2653 continue;
2655 sc.nr_scanned = 0;
2657 nr_soft_scanned = 0;
2659 * Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
2661 nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
2662 order, sc.gfp_mask,
2663 &nr_soft_scanned);
2664 sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
2665 total_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
2668 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless
2669 * one zone has way too many pages free
2670 * already. The "too many pages" is defined
2671 * as the high wmark plus a "gap" where the
2672 * gap is either the low watermark or 1%
2673 * of the zone, whichever is smaller.
2675 balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone),
2676 (zone->present_pages +
2677 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO-1) /
2678 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO);
2680 * Kswapd reclaims only single pages with compaction
2681 * enabled. Trying too hard to reclaim until contiguous
2682 * free pages have become available can hurt performance
2683 * by evicting too much useful data from memory.
2684 * Do not reclaim more than needed for compaction.
2686 testorder = order;
2687 if (COMPACTION_BUILD && order &&
2688 compaction_suitable(zone, order) !=
2689 COMPACT_SKIPPED)
2690 testorder = 0;
2692 if ((buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem_idx(i)) ||
2693 !zone_balanced(zone, testorder,
2694 balance_gap, end_zone)) {
2695 shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
2697 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
2698 nr_slab = shrink_slab(&shrink, sc.nr_scanned, lru_pages);
2699 sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
2700 total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
2702 if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone))
2703 zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
2707 * If we've done a decent amount of scanning and
2708 * the reclaim ratio is low, start doing writepage
2709 * even in laptop mode
2711 if (total_scanned > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 2 &&
2712 total_scanned > sc.nr_reclaimed + sc.nr_reclaimed / 2)
2713 sc.may_writepage = 1;
2715 if (zone->all_unreclaimable) {
2716 if (end_zone && end_zone == i)
2717 end_zone--;
2718 continue;
2721 if (!zone_balanced(zone, testorder, 0, end_zone)) {
2722 all_zones_ok = 0;
2724 * We are still under min water mark. This
2725 * means that we have a GFP_ATOMIC allocation
2726 * failure risk. Hurry up!
2728 if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order,
2729 min_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0))
2730 has_under_min_watermark_zone = 1;
2731 } else {
2733 * If a zone reaches its high watermark,
2734 * consider it to be no longer congested. It's
2735 * possible there are dirty pages backed by
2736 * congested BDIs but as pressure is relieved,
2737 * speculatively avoid congestion waits
2739 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
2740 if (i <= *classzone_idx)
2741 balanced += zone->present_pages;
2747 * If the low watermark is met there is no need for processes
2748 * to be throttled on pfmemalloc_wait as they should not be
2749 * able to safely make forward progress. Wake them
2751 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait) &&
2752 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
2753 wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
2755 if (all_zones_ok || (order && pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, *classzone_idx)))
2756 break; /* kswapd: all done */
2758 * OK, kswapd is getting into trouble. Take a nap, then take
2759 * another pass across the zones.
2761 if (total_scanned && (sc.priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)) {
2762 if (has_under_min_watermark_zone)
2763 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_SKIP_CONGESTION_WAIT);
2764 else
2765 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
2769 * We do this so kswapd doesn't build up large priorities for
2770 * example when it is freeing in parallel with allocators. It
2771 * matches the direct reclaim path behaviour in terms of impact
2772 * on zone->*_priority.
2774 if (sc.nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
2775 break;
2776 } while (--sc.priority >= 0);
2777 out:
2780 * order-0: All zones must meet high watermark for a balanced node
2781 * high-order: Balanced zones must make up at least 25% of the node
2782 * for the node to be balanced
2784 if (!(all_zones_ok || (order && pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, *classzone_idx)))) {
2785 cond_resched();
2787 try_to_freeze();
2790 * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be
2791 * rebalanced for high-order allocations in all zones.
2792 * At this point, if nr_reclaimed < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2793 * it means the zones have been fully scanned and are still
2794 * not balanced. For high-order allocations, there is
2795 * little point trying all over again as kswapd may
2796 * infinite loop.
2798 * Instead, recheck all watermarks at order-0 as they
2799 * are the most important. If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go
2800 * back to sleep. High-order users can still perform direct
2801 * reclaim if they wish.
2803 if (sc.nr_reclaimed < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
2804 order = sc.order = 0;
2806 goto loop_again;
2810 * If kswapd was reclaiming at a higher order, it has the option of
2811 * sleeping without all zones being balanced. Before it does, it must
2812 * ensure that the watermarks for order-0 on *all* zones are met and
2813 * that the congestion flags are cleared. The congestion flag must
2814 * be cleared as kswapd is the only mechanism that clears the flag
2815 * and it is potentially going to sleep here.
2817 if (order) {
2818 int zones_need_compaction = 1;
2820 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
2821 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2823 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2824 continue;
2826 /* Check if the memory needs to be defragmented. */
2827 if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
2828 low_wmark_pages(zone), *classzone_idx, 0))
2829 zones_need_compaction = 0;
2832 if (zones_need_compaction)
2833 compact_pgdat(pgdat, order);
2837 * Return the order we were reclaiming at so prepare_kswapd_sleep()
2838 * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However,
2839 * if another caller entered the allocator slow path while kswapd
2840 * was awake, order will remain at the higher level
2842 *classzone_idx = end_zone;
2843 return order;
2846 static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
2848 long remaining = 0;
2849 DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
2851 if (freezing(current) || kthread_should_stop())
2852 return;
2854 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
2856 /* Try to sleep for a short interval */
2857 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
2858 remaining = schedule_timeout(HZ/10);
2859 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
2860 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
2864 * After a short sleep, check if it was a premature sleep. If not, then
2865 * go fully to sleep until explicitly woken up.
2867 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
2868 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
2871 * vmstat counters are not perfectly accurate and the estimated
2872 * value for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES can deviate from the
2873 * true value by nr_online_cpus * threshold. To avoid the zone
2874 * watermarks being breached while under pressure, we reduce the
2875 * per-cpu vmstat threshold while kswapd is awake and restore
2876 * them before going back to sleep.
2878 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold);
2881 * Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to
2882 * isolate pages from and skips them in the future scanning.
2883 * When kswapd is going to sleep, it is reasonable to assume
2884 * that pages and compaction may succeed so reset the cache.
2886 reset_isolation_suitable(pgdat);
2888 if (!kthread_should_stop())
2889 schedule();
2891 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold);
2892 } else {
2893 if (remaining)
2894 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
2895 else
2896 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
2898 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
2902 * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
2903 * from the init process.
2905 * This basically trickles out pages so that we have _some_
2906 * free memory available even if there is no other activity
2907 * that frees anything up. This is needed for things like routing
2908 * etc, where we otherwise might have all activity going on in
2909 * asynchronous contexts that cannot page things out.
2911 * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators
2912 * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter.
2914 static int kswapd(void *p)
2916 unsigned long order, new_order;
2917 unsigned balanced_order;
2918 int classzone_idx, new_classzone_idx;
2919 int balanced_classzone_idx;
2920 pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t*)p;
2921 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
2923 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
2924 .reclaimed_slab = 0,
2926 const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
2928 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL);
2930 if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
2931 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
2932 current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
2935 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
2936 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
2937 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
2938 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
2940 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
2941 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
2942 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
2943 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
2944 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
2946 tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
2947 set_freezable();
2949 order = new_order = 0;
2950 balanced_order = 0;
2951 classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
2952 balanced_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
2953 for ( ; ; ) {
2954 int ret;
2957 * If the last balance_pgdat was unsuccessful it's unlikely a
2958 * new request of a similar or harder type will succeed soon
2959 * so consider going to sleep on the basis we reclaimed at
2961 if (balanced_classzone_idx >= new_classzone_idx &&
2962 balanced_order == new_order) {
2963 new_order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
2964 new_classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
2965 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
2966 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
2969 if (order < new_order || classzone_idx > new_classzone_idx) {
2971 * Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
2972 * allocation or has tigher zone constraints
2974 order = new_order;
2975 classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx;
2976 } else {
2977 kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat, balanced_order,
2978 balanced_classzone_idx);
2979 order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
2980 classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
2981 new_order = order;
2982 new_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
2983 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
2984 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
2987 ret = try_to_freeze();
2988 if (kthread_should_stop())
2989 break;
2992 * We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call balance_pgdat
2993 * after returning from the refrigerator
2995 if (!ret) {
2996 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake(pgdat->node_id, order);
2997 balanced_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
2998 balanced_order = balance_pgdat(pgdat, order,
2999 &balanced_classzone_idx);
3003 current->reclaim_state = NULL;
3004 return 0;
3008 * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
3010 void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
3012 pg_data_t *pgdat;
3014 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3015 return;
3017 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
3018 return;
3019 pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
3020 if (pgdat->kswapd_max_order < order) {
3021 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = order;
3022 pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx, classzone_idx);
3024 if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
3025 return;
3026 if (zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0))
3027 return;
3029 trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
3030 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
3034 * The reclaimable count would be mostly accurate.
3035 * The less reclaimable pages may be
3036 * - mlocked pages, which will be moved to unevictable list when encountered
3037 * - mapped pages, which may require several travels to be reclaimed
3038 * - dirty pages, which is not "instantly" reclaimable
3040 unsigned long global_reclaimable_pages(void)
3042 int nr;
3044 nr = global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
3045 global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
3047 if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
3048 nr += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
3049 global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
3051 return nr;
3054 unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
3056 int nr;
3058 nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
3059 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
3061 if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
3062 nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
3063 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
3065 return nr;
3068 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
3070 * Try to free `nr_to_reclaim' of memory, system-wide, and return the number of
3071 * freed pages.
3073 * Rather than trying to age LRUs the aim is to preserve the overall
3074 * LRU order by reclaiming preferentially
3075 * inactive > active > active referenced > active mapped
3077 unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim)
3079 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
3080 struct scan_control sc = {
3081 .gfp_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
3082 .may_swap = 1,
3083 .may_unmap = 1,
3084 .may_writepage = 1,
3085 .nr_to_reclaim = nr_to_reclaim,
3086 .hibernation_mode = 1,
3087 .order = 0,
3088 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
3090 struct shrink_control shrink = {
3091 .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
3093 struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), sc.gfp_mask);
3094 struct task_struct *p = current;
3095 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
3097 p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
3098 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(sc.gfp_mask);
3099 reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
3100 p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3102 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc, &shrink);
3104 p->reclaim_state = NULL;
3105 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3106 p->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
3108 return nr_reclaimed;
3110 #endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
3112 /* It's optimal to keep kswapds on the same CPUs as their memory, but
3113 not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
3114 away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
3115 restore their cpu bindings. */
3116 static int __devinit cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
3117 unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
3119 int nid;
3121 if (action == CPU_ONLINE || action == CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN) {
3122 for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
3123 pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
3124 const struct cpumask *mask;
3126 mask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
3128 if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, mask) < nr_cpu_ids)
3129 /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
3130 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kswapd, mask);
3133 return NOTIFY_OK;
3137 * This kswapd start function will be called by init and node-hot-add.
3138 * On node-hot-add, kswapd will moved to proper cpus if cpus are hot-added.
3140 int kswapd_run(int nid)
3142 pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
3143 int ret = 0;
3145 if (pgdat->kswapd)
3146 return 0;
3148 pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
3149 if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
3150 /* failure at boot is fatal */
3151 BUG_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING);
3152 pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
3153 pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid);
3154 ret = PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd);
3156 return ret;
3160 * Called by memory hotplug when all memory in a node is offlined. Caller must
3161 * hold lock_memory_hotplug().
3163 void kswapd_stop(int nid)
3165 struct task_struct *kswapd = NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd;
3167 if (kswapd) {
3168 kthread_stop(kswapd);
3169 NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd = NULL;
3173 static int __init kswapd_init(void)
3175 int nid;
3177 swap_setup();
3178 for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY)
3179 kswapd_run(nid);
3180 hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);
3181 return 0;
3184 module_init(kswapd_init)
3186 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
3188 * Zone reclaim mode
3190 * If non-zero call zone_reclaim when the number of free pages falls below
3191 * the watermarks.
3193 int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
3195 #define RECLAIM_OFF 0
3196 #define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0) /* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
3197 #define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1) /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
3198 #define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2) /* Swap pages out during reclaim */
3201 * Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
3202 * of a node considered for each zone_reclaim. 4 scans 1/16th of
3203 * a zone.
3205 #define ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY 4
3208 * Percentage of pages in a zone that must be unmapped for zone_reclaim to
3209 * occur.
3211 int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio = 1;
3214 * If the number of slab pages in a zone grows beyond this percentage then
3215 * slab reclaim needs to occur.
3217 int sysctl_min_slab_ratio = 5;
3219 static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone *zone)
3221 unsigned long file_mapped = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED);
3222 unsigned long file_lru = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
3223 zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
3226 * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than
3227 * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because
3228 * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED
3230 return (file_lru > file_mapped) ? (file_lru - file_mapped) : 0;
3233 /* Work out how many page cache pages we can reclaim in this reclaim_mode */
3234 static long zone_pagecache_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
3236 long nr_pagecache_reclaimable;
3237 long delta = 0;
3240 * If RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then all file pages are considered
3241 * potentially reclaimable. Otherwise, we have to worry about
3242 * pages like swapcache and zone_unmapped_file_pages() provides
3243 * a better estimate
3245 if (zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP)
3246 nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES);
3247 else
3248 nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone);
3250 /* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */
3251 if (!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE))
3252 delta += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
3254 /* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */
3255 if (unlikely(delta > nr_pagecache_reclaimable))
3256 delta = nr_pagecache_reclaimable;
3258 return nr_pagecache_reclaimable - delta;
3262 * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
3264 static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
3266 /* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */
3267 const unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
3268 struct task_struct *p = current;
3269 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
3270 struct scan_control sc = {
3271 .may_writepage = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE),
3272 .may_unmap = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP),
3273 .may_swap = 1,
3274 .nr_to_reclaim = max_t(unsigned long, nr_pages,
3275 SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
3276 .gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
3277 .order = order,
3278 .priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY,
3280 struct shrink_control shrink = {
3281 .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
3283 unsigned long nr_slab_pages0, nr_slab_pages1;
3285 cond_resched();
3287 * We need to be able to allocate from the reserves for RECLAIM_SWAP
3288 * and we also need to be able to write out pages for RECLAIM_WRITE
3289 * and RECLAIM_SWAP.
3291 p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE;
3292 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask);
3293 reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
3294 p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3296 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) > zone->min_unmapped_pages) {
3298 * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing
3299 * priorities until we have enough memory freed.
3301 do {
3302 shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
3303 } while (sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages && --sc.priority >= 0);
3306 nr_slab_pages0 = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
3307 if (nr_slab_pages0 > zone->min_slab_pages) {
3309 * shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how
3310 * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current
3311 * number of slab pages and shake the slab until it is reduced
3312 * by the same nr_pages that we used for reclaiming unmapped
3313 * pages.
3315 * Note that shrink_slab will free memory on all zones and may
3316 * take a long time.
3318 for (;;) {
3319 unsigned long lru_pages = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
3321 /* No reclaimable slab or very low memory pressure */
3322 if (!shrink_slab(&shrink, sc.nr_scanned, lru_pages))
3323 break;
3325 /* Freed enough memory */
3326 nr_slab_pages1 = zone_page_state(zone,
3327 NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
3328 if (nr_slab_pages1 + nr_pages <= nr_slab_pages0)
3329 break;
3333 * Update nr_reclaimed by the number of slab pages we
3334 * reclaimed from this zone.
3336 nr_slab_pages1 = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
3337 if (nr_slab_pages1 < nr_slab_pages0)
3338 sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_slab_pages0 - nr_slab_pages1;
3341 p->reclaim_state = NULL;
3342 current->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE);
3343 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3344 return sc.nr_reclaimed >= nr_pages;
3347 int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
3349 int node_id;
3350 int ret;
3353 * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
3354 * slab pages if we are over the defined limits.
3356 * A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
3357 * file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
3358 * thrown out if the zone is overallocated. So we do not reclaim
3359 * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by
3360 * unmapped file backed pages.
3362 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages &&
3363 zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) <= zone->min_slab_pages)
3364 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL;
3366 if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
3367 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL;
3370 * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
3372 if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
3373 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3376 * Only run zone reclaim on the local zone or on zones that do not
3377 * have associated processors. This will favor the local processor
3378 * over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations
3379 * as wide as possible.
3381 node_id = zone_to_nid(zone);
3382 if (node_state(node_id, N_CPU) && node_id != numa_node_id())
3383 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3385 if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED))
3386 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3388 ret = __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
3389 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED);
3391 if (!ret)
3392 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED);
3394 return ret;
3396 #endif
3399 * page_evictable - test whether a page is evictable
3400 * @page: the page to test
3402 * Test whether page is evictable--i.e., should be placed on active/inactive
3403 * lists vs unevictable list.
3405 * Reasons page might not be evictable:
3406 * (1) page's mapping marked unevictable
3407 * (2) page is part of an mlocked VMA
3410 int page_evictable(struct page *page)
3412 return !mapping_unevictable(page_mapping(page)) && !PageMlocked(page);
3415 #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
3417 * check_move_unevictable_pages - check pages for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
3418 * @pages: array of pages to check
3419 * @nr_pages: number of pages to check
3421 * Checks pages for evictability and moves them to the appropriate lru list.
3423 * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
3425 void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page **pages, int nr_pages)
3427 struct lruvec *lruvec;
3428 struct zone *zone = NULL;
3429 int pgscanned = 0;
3430 int pgrescued = 0;
3431 int i;
3433 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
3434 struct page *page = pages[i];
3435 struct zone *pagezone;
3437 pgscanned++;
3438 pagezone = page_zone(page);
3439 if (pagezone != zone) {
3440 if (zone)
3441 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3442 zone = pagezone;
3443 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3445 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
3447 if (!PageLRU(page) || !PageUnevictable(page))
3448 continue;
3450 if (page_evictable(page)) {
3451 enum lru_list lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
3453 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page));
3454 ClearPageUnevictable(page);
3455 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, LRU_UNEVICTABLE);
3456 add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
3457 pgrescued++;
3461 if (zone) {
3462 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED, pgrescued);
3463 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pgscanned);
3464 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3467 #endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
3469 static void warn_scan_unevictable_pages(void)
3471 printk_once(KERN_WARNING
3472 "%s: The scan_unevictable_pages sysctl/node-interface has been "
3473 "disabled for lack of a legitimate use case. If you have "
3474 "one, please send an email to linux-mm@kvack.org.\n",
3475 current->comm);
3479 * scan_unevictable_pages [vm] sysctl handler. On demand re-scan of
3480 * all nodes' unevictable lists for evictable pages
3482 unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages;
3484 int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
3485 void __user *buffer,
3486 size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
3488 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3489 proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
3490 scan_unevictable_pages = 0;
3491 return 0;
3494 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
3496 * per node 'scan_unevictable_pages' attribute. On demand re-scan of
3497 * a specified node's per zone unevictable lists for evictable pages.
3500 static ssize_t read_scan_unevictable_node(struct device *dev,
3501 struct device_attribute *attr,
3502 char *buf)
3504 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3505 return sprintf(buf, "0\n"); /* always zero; should fit... */
3508 static ssize_t write_scan_unevictable_node(struct device *dev,
3509 struct device_attribute *attr,
3510 const char *buf, size_t count)
3512 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3513 return 1;
3517 static DEVICE_ATTR(scan_unevictable_pages, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
3518 read_scan_unevictable_node,
3519 write_scan_unevictable_node);
3521 int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node *node)
3523 return device_create_file(&node->dev, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages);
3526 void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node)
3528 device_remove_file(&node->dev, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages);
3530 #endif