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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/vmpressure.h>
23 #include <linux/vmstat.h>
24 #include <linux/file.h>
25 #include <linux/writeback.h>
26 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
27 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for try_to_release_page(),
28 buffer_heads_over_limit */
29 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
30 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
31 #include <linux/rmap.h>
32 #include <linux/topology.h>
33 #include <linux/cpu.h>
34 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
35 #include <linux/compaction.h>
36 #include <linux/notifier.h>
37 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
38 #include <linux/delay.h>
39 #include <linux/kthread.h>
40 #include <linux/freezer.h>
41 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
42 #include <linux/delayacct.h>
43 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
44 #include <linux/oom.h>
45 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
47 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
48 #include <asm/div64.h>
50 #include <linux/swapops.h>
51 #include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
53 #include "internal.h"
55 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
56 #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
58 struct scan_control {
59 /* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
60 unsigned long nr_scanned;
62 /* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
63 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
65 /* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
66 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
68 unsigned long hibernation_mode;
70 /* This context's GFP mask */
71 gfp_t gfp_mask;
73 int may_writepage;
75 /* Can mapped pages be reclaimed? */
76 int may_unmap;
78 /* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
79 int may_swap;
81 int order;
83 /* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
84 int priority;
87 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
88 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
90 struct mem_cgroup *target_mem_cgroup;
93 * Nodemask of nodes allowed by the caller. If NULL, all nodes
94 * are scanned.
96 nodemask_t *nodemask;
99 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
101 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
102 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
103 do { \
104 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
105 struct page *prev; \
107 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
108 prefetch(&prev->_field); \
110 } while (0)
111 #else
112 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
113 #endif
115 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
116 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
117 do { \
118 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
119 struct page *prev; \
121 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
122 prefetchw(&prev->_field); \
124 } while (0)
125 #else
126 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
127 #endif
130 * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
132 int vm_swappiness = 60;
133 unsigned long vm_total_pages; /* The total number of pages which the VM controls */
135 static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
136 static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
138 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
139 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
141 return !sc->target_mem_cgroup;
143 #else
144 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
146 return true;
148 #endif
150 static unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
152 int nr;
154 nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
155 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
157 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
158 nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
159 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
161 return nr;
164 bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
166 return zone->pages_scanned < zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6;
169 static unsigned long get_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
171 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
172 return mem_cgroup_get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
174 return zone_page_state(lruvec_zone(lruvec), NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
178 * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm.
180 int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
182 size_t size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred);
185 * If we only have one possible node in the system anyway, save
186 * ourselves the trouble and disable NUMA aware behavior. This way we
187 * will save memory and some small loop time later.
189 if (nr_node_ids == 1)
190 shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE;
192 if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)
193 size *= nr_node_ids;
195 shrinker->nr_deferred = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
196 if (!shrinker->nr_deferred)
197 return -ENOMEM;
199 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
200 list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
201 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
202 return 0;
204 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
207 * Remove one
209 void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
211 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
212 list_del(&shrinker->list);
213 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
214 kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
216 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
218 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
220 static unsigned long
221 shrink_slab_node(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl, struct shrinker *shrinker,
222 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned, unsigned long lru_pages)
224 unsigned long freed = 0;
225 unsigned long long delta;
226 long total_scan;
227 long freeable;
228 long nr;
229 long new_nr;
230 int nid = shrinkctl->nid;
231 long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
232 : SHRINK_BATCH;
234 freeable = shrinker->count_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
235 if (freeable == 0)
236 return 0;
239 * copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
240 * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
241 * don't also do this scanning work.
243 nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid], 0);
245 total_scan = nr;
246 delta = (4 * nr_pages_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
247 delta *= freeable;
248 do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
249 total_scan += delta;
250 if (total_scan < 0) {
251 printk(KERN_ERR
252 "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to delete nr=%ld\n",
253 shrinker->scan_objects, total_scan);
254 total_scan = freeable;
258 * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
259 * due to large numbers of GFP_NOFS allocations causing the
260 * shrinkers to return -1 all the time. This results in a large
261 * nr being built up so when a shrink that can do some work
262 * comes along it empties the entire cache due to nr >>>
263 * freeable. This is bad for sustaining a working set in
264 * memory.
266 * Hence only allow the shrinker to scan the entire cache when
267 * a large delta change is calculated directly.
269 if (delta < freeable / 4)
270 total_scan = min(total_scan, freeable / 2);
273 * Avoid risking looping forever due to too large nr value:
274 * never try to free more than twice the estimate number of
275 * freeable entries.
277 if (total_scan > freeable * 2)
278 total_scan = freeable * 2;
280 trace_mm_shrink_slab_start(shrinker, shrinkctl, nr,
281 nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages,
282 freeable, delta, total_scan);
285 * Normally, we should not scan less than batch_size objects in one
286 * pass to avoid too frequent shrinker calls, but if the slab has less
287 * than batch_size objects in total and we are really tight on memory,
288 * we will try to reclaim all available objects, otherwise we can end
289 * up failing allocations although there are plenty of reclaimable
290 * objects spread over several slabs with usage less than the
291 * batch_size.
293 * We detect the "tight on memory" situations by looking at the total
294 * number of objects we want to scan (total_scan). If it is greater
295 * than the total number of objects on slab (freeable), we must be
296 * scanning at high prio and therefore should try to reclaim as much as
297 * possible.
299 while (total_scan >= batch_size ||
300 total_scan >= freeable) {
301 unsigned long ret;
302 unsigned long nr_to_scan = min(batch_size, total_scan);
304 shrinkctl->nr_to_scan = nr_to_scan;
305 ret = shrinker->scan_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
306 if (ret == SHRINK_STOP)
307 break;
308 freed += ret;
310 count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan);
311 total_scan -= nr_to_scan;
313 cond_resched();
317 * move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a
318 * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
319 * scan, there is no need to do an update.
321 if (total_scan > 0)
322 new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan,
323 &shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]);
324 else
325 new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]);
327 trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker, freed, nr, new_nr);
328 return freed;
332 * Call the shrink functions to age shrinkable caches
334 * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that it also
335 * takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in mind we age equal
336 * percentages of the lru and ageable caches. This should balance the seeks
337 * generated by these structures.
339 * If the vm encountered mapped pages on the LRU it increase the pressure on
340 * slab to avoid swapping.
342 * We do weird things to avoid (scanned*seeks*entries) overflowing 32 bits.
344 * `lru_pages' represents the number of on-LRU pages in all the zones which
345 * are eligible for the caller's allocation attempt. It is used for balancing
346 * slab reclaim versus page reclaim.
348 * Returns the number of slab objects which we shrunk.
350 unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
351 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned,
352 unsigned long lru_pages)
354 struct shrinker *shrinker;
355 unsigned long freed = 0;
357 if (nr_pages_scanned == 0)
358 nr_pages_scanned = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
360 if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem)) {
362 * If we would return 0, our callers would understand that we
363 * have nothing else to shrink and give up trying. By returning
364 * 1 we keep it going and assume we'll be able to shrink next
365 * time.
367 freed = 1;
368 goto out;
371 list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
372 if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)) {
373 shrinkctl->nid = 0;
374 freed += shrink_slab_node(shrinkctl, shrinker,
375 nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages);
376 continue;
379 for_each_node_mask(shrinkctl->nid, shrinkctl->nodes_to_scan) {
380 if (node_online(shrinkctl->nid))
381 freed += shrink_slab_node(shrinkctl, shrinker,
382 nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages);
386 up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
387 out:
388 cond_resched();
389 return freed;
392 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
395 * A freeable page cache page is referenced only by the caller
396 * that isolated the page, the page cache radix tree and
397 * optional buffer heads at page->private.
399 return page_count(page) - page_has_private(page) == 2;
402 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
403 struct scan_control *sc)
405 if (current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE)
406 return 1;
407 if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
408 return 1;
409 if (bdi == current->backing_dev_info)
410 return 1;
411 return 0;
415 * We detected a synchronous write error writing a page out. Probably
416 * -ENOSPC. We need to propagate that into the address_space for a subsequent
417 * fsync(), msync() or close().
419 * The tricky part is that after writepage we cannot touch the mapping: nothing
420 * prevents it from being freed up. But we have a ref on the page and once
421 * that page is locked, the mapping is pinned.
423 * We're allowed to run sleeping lock_page() here because we know the caller has
424 * __GFP_FS.
426 static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
427 struct page *page, int error)
429 lock_page(page);
430 if (page_mapping(page) == mapping)
431 mapping_set_error(mapping, error);
432 unlock_page(page);
435 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
436 typedef enum {
437 /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
438 PAGE_KEEP,
439 /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
440 PAGE_ACTIVATE,
441 /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
442 PAGE_SUCCESS,
443 /* page is clean and locked */
444 PAGE_CLEAN,
445 } pageout_t;
448 * pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
449 * Calls ->writepage().
451 static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
452 struct scan_control *sc)
455 * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
456 * will be non-blocking. To prevent this allocation from being
457 * stalled by pagecache activity. But note that there may be
458 * stalls if we need to run get_block(). We could test
459 * PagePrivate for that.
461 * If this process is currently in __generic_file_aio_write() against
462 * this page's queue, we can perform writeback even if that
463 * will block.
465 * If the page is swapcache, write it back even if that would
466 * block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
467 * swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
468 * congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
470 if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page))
471 return PAGE_KEEP;
472 if (!mapping) {
474 * Some data journaling orphaned pages can have
475 * page->mapping == NULL while being dirty with clean buffers.
477 if (page_has_private(page)) {
478 if (try_to_free_buffers(page)) {
479 ClearPageDirty(page);
480 printk("%s: orphaned page\n", __func__);
481 return PAGE_CLEAN;
484 return PAGE_KEEP;
486 if (mapping->a_ops->writepage == NULL)
487 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
488 if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping->backing_dev_info, sc))
489 return PAGE_KEEP;
491 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
492 int res;
493 struct writeback_control wbc = {
494 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
495 .nr_to_write = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
496 .range_start = 0,
497 .range_end = LLONG_MAX,
498 .for_reclaim = 1,
501 SetPageReclaim(page);
502 res = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
503 if (res < 0)
504 handle_write_error(mapping, page, res);
505 if (res == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
506 ClearPageReclaim(page);
507 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
510 if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
511 /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
512 ClearPageReclaim(page);
514 trace_mm_vmscan_writepage(page, trace_reclaim_flags(page));
515 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE);
516 return PAGE_SUCCESS;
519 return PAGE_CLEAN;
523 * Same as remove_mapping, but if the page is removed from the mapping, it
524 * gets returned with a refcount of 0.
526 static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page,
527 bool reclaimed)
529 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
530 BUG_ON(mapping != page_mapping(page));
532 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
534 * The non racy check for a busy page.
536 * Must be careful with the order of the tests. When someone has
537 * a ref to the page, it may be possible that they dirty it then
538 * drop the reference. So if PageDirty is tested before page_count
539 * here, then the following race may occur:
541 * get_user_pages(&page);
542 * [user mapping goes away]
543 * write_to(page);
544 * !PageDirty(page) [good]
545 * SetPageDirty(page);
546 * put_page(page);
547 * !page_count(page) [good, discard it]
549 * [oops, our write_to data is lost]
551 * Reversing the order of the tests ensures such a situation cannot
552 * escape unnoticed. The smp_rmb is needed to ensure the page->flags
553 * load is not satisfied before that of page->_count.
555 * Note that if SetPageDirty is always performed via set_page_dirty,
556 * and thus under tree_lock, then this ordering is not required.
558 if (!page_freeze_refs(page, 2))
559 goto cannot_free;
560 /* note: atomic_cmpxchg in page_freeze_refs provides the smp_rmb */
561 if (unlikely(PageDirty(page))) {
562 page_unfreeze_refs(page, 2);
563 goto cannot_free;
566 if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
567 swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
568 __delete_from_swap_cache(page);
569 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
570 swapcache_free(swap, page);
571 } else {
572 void (*freepage)(struct page *);
573 void *shadow = NULL;
575 freepage = mapping->a_ops->freepage;
577 * Remember a shadow entry for reclaimed file cache in
578 * order to detect refaults, thus thrashing, later on.
580 * But don't store shadows in an address space that is
581 * already exiting. This is not just an optizimation,
582 * inode reclaim needs to empty out the radix tree or
583 * the nodes are lost. Don't plant shadows behind its
584 * back.
586 if (reclaimed && page_is_file_cache(page) &&
587 !mapping_exiting(mapping))
588 shadow = workingset_eviction(mapping, page);
589 __delete_from_page_cache(page, shadow);
590 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
591 mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
593 if (freepage != NULL)
594 freepage(page);
597 return 1;
599 cannot_free:
600 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
601 return 0;
605 * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if
606 * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was
607 * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on
608 * this page.
610 int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
612 if (__remove_mapping(mapping, page, false)) {
614 * Unfreezing the refcount with 1 rather than 2 effectively
615 * drops the pagecache ref for us without requiring another
616 * atomic operation.
618 page_unfreeze_refs(page, 1);
619 return 1;
621 return 0;
625 * putback_lru_page - put previously isolated page onto appropriate LRU list
626 * @page: page to be put back to appropriate lru list
628 * Add previously isolated @page to appropriate LRU list.
629 * Page may still be unevictable for other reasons.
631 * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
633 void putback_lru_page(struct page *page)
635 bool is_unevictable;
636 int was_unevictable = PageUnevictable(page);
638 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
640 redo:
641 ClearPageUnevictable(page);
643 if (page_evictable(page)) {
645 * For evictable pages, we can use the cache.
646 * In event of a race, worst case is we end up with an
647 * unevictable page on [in]active list.
648 * We know how to handle that.
650 is_unevictable = false;
651 lru_cache_add(page);
652 } else {
654 * Put unevictable pages directly on zone's unevictable
655 * list.
657 is_unevictable = true;
658 add_page_to_unevictable_list(page);
660 * When racing with an mlock or AS_UNEVICTABLE clearing
661 * (page is unlocked) make sure that if the other thread
662 * does not observe our setting of PG_lru and fails
663 * isolation/check_move_unevictable_pages,
664 * we see PG_mlocked/AS_UNEVICTABLE cleared below and move
665 * the page back to the evictable list.
667 * The other side is TestClearPageMlocked() or shmem_lock().
669 smp_mb();
673 * page's status can change while we move it among lru. If an evictable
674 * page is on unevictable list, it never be freed. To avoid that,
675 * check after we added it to the list, again.
677 if (is_unevictable && page_evictable(page)) {
678 if (!isolate_lru_page(page)) {
679 put_page(page);
680 goto redo;
682 /* This means someone else dropped this page from LRU
683 * So, it will be freed or putback to LRU again. There is
684 * nothing to do here.
688 if (was_unevictable && !is_unevictable)
689 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED);
690 else if (!was_unevictable && is_unevictable)
691 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGCULLED);
693 put_page(page); /* drop ref from isolate */
696 enum page_references {
697 PAGEREF_RECLAIM,
698 PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN,
699 PAGEREF_KEEP,
700 PAGEREF_ACTIVATE,
703 static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page,
704 struct scan_control *sc)
706 int referenced_ptes, referenced_page;
707 unsigned long vm_flags;
709 referenced_ptes = page_referenced(page, 1, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
710 &vm_flags);
711 referenced_page = TestClearPageReferenced(page);
714 * Mlock lost the isolation race with us. Let try_to_unmap()
715 * move the page to the unevictable list.
717 if (vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
718 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
720 if (referenced_ptes) {
721 if (PageSwapBacked(page))
722 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
724 * All mapped pages start out with page table
725 * references from the instantiating fault, so we need
726 * to look twice if a mapped file page is used more
727 * than once.
729 * Mark it and spare it for another trip around the
730 * inactive list. Another page table reference will
731 * lead to its activation.
733 * Note: the mark is set for activated pages as well
734 * so that recently deactivated but used pages are
735 * quickly recovered.
737 SetPageReferenced(page);
739 if (referenced_page || referenced_ptes > 1)
740 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
743 * Activate file-backed executable pages after first usage.
745 if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC)
746 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
748 return PAGEREF_KEEP;
751 /* Reclaim if clean, defer dirty pages to writeback */
752 if (referenced_page && !PageSwapBacked(page))
753 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN;
755 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
758 /* Check if a page is dirty or under writeback */
759 static void page_check_dirty_writeback(struct page *page,
760 bool *dirty, bool *writeback)
762 struct address_space *mapping;
765 * Anonymous pages are not handled by flushers and must be written
766 * from reclaim context. Do not stall reclaim based on them
768 if (!page_is_file_cache(page)) {
769 *dirty = false;
770 *writeback = false;
771 return;
774 /* By default assume that the page flags are accurate */
775 *dirty = PageDirty(page);
776 *writeback = PageWriteback(page);
778 /* Verify dirty/writeback state if the filesystem supports it */
779 if (!page_has_private(page))
780 return;
782 mapping = page_mapping(page);
783 if (mapping && mapping->a_ops->is_dirty_writeback)
784 mapping->a_ops->is_dirty_writeback(page, dirty, writeback);
788 * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
790 static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
791 struct zone *zone,
792 struct scan_control *sc,
793 enum ttu_flags ttu_flags,
794 unsigned long *ret_nr_dirty,
795 unsigned long *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty,
796 unsigned long *ret_nr_congested,
797 unsigned long *ret_nr_writeback,
798 unsigned long *ret_nr_immediate,
799 bool force_reclaim)
801 LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
802 LIST_HEAD(free_pages);
803 int pgactivate = 0;
804 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty = 0;
805 unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
806 unsigned long nr_congested = 0;
807 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
808 unsigned long nr_writeback = 0;
809 unsigned long nr_immediate = 0;
811 cond_resched();
813 mem_cgroup_uncharge_start();
814 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
815 struct address_space *mapping;
816 struct page *page;
817 int may_enter_fs;
818 enum page_references references = PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN;
819 bool dirty, writeback;
821 cond_resched();
823 page = lru_to_page(page_list);
824 list_del(&page->lru);
826 if (!trylock_page(page))
827 goto keep;
829 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
830 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_zone(page) != zone, page);
832 sc->nr_scanned++;
834 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page)))
835 goto cull_mlocked;
837 if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
838 goto keep_locked;
840 /* Double the slab pressure for mapped and swapcache pages */
841 if (page_mapped(page) || PageSwapCache(page))
842 sc->nr_scanned++;
844 may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
845 (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
848 * The number of dirty pages determines if a zone is marked
849 * reclaim_congested which affects wait_iff_congested. kswapd
850 * will stall and start writing pages if the tail of the LRU
851 * is all dirty unqueued pages.
853 page_check_dirty_writeback(page, &dirty, &writeback);
854 if (dirty || writeback)
855 nr_dirty++;
857 if (dirty && !writeback)
858 nr_unqueued_dirty++;
861 * Treat this page as congested if the underlying BDI is or if
862 * pages are cycling through the LRU so quickly that the
863 * pages marked for immediate reclaim are making it to the
864 * end of the LRU a second time.
866 mapping = page_mapping(page);
867 if ((mapping && bdi_write_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info)) ||
868 (writeback && PageReclaim(page)))
869 nr_congested++;
872 * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there
873 * are three cases to consider.
875 * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages
876 * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and
877 * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued
878 * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the
879 * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an
880 * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the
881 * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead
882 * note that the LRU is being scanned too quickly and the
883 * caller can stall after page list has been processed.
885 * 2) Global reclaim encounters a page, memcg encounters a
886 * page that is not marked for immediate reclaim or
887 * the caller does not have __GFP_IO. In this case mark
888 * the page for immediate reclaim and continue scanning.
890 * __GFP_IO is checked because a loop driver thread might
891 * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for
892 * which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off
893 * __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought
894 * would probably show more reasons.
896 * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into the
897 * FS, just waiting on its writeback completion. Worryingly,
898 * ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with
899 * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so testing
900 * may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them.
902 * 3) memcg encounters a page that is not already marked
903 * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages
904 * throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many
905 * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to
906 * reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete.
908 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
909 /* Case 1 above */
910 if (current_is_kswapd() &&
911 PageReclaim(page) &&
912 zone_is_reclaim_writeback(zone)) {
913 nr_immediate++;
914 goto keep_locked;
916 /* Case 2 above */
917 } else if (global_reclaim(sc) ||
918 !PageReclaim(page) || !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) {
920 * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
921 * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then
922 * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted
923 * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter
924 * enough to care. What we do want is for this
925 * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg
926 * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will
927 * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM;
928 * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim.
930 SetPageReclaim(page);
931 nr_writeback++;
933 goto keep_locked;
935 /* Case 3 above */
936 } else {
937 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
941 if (!force_reclaim)
942 references = page_check_references(page, sc);
944 switch (references) {
945 case PAGEREF_ACTIVATE:
946 goto activate_locked;
947 case PAGEREF_KEEP:
948 goto keep_locked;
949 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM:
950 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN:
951 ; /* try to reclaim the page below */
955 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
956 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
958 if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
959 if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
960 goto keep_locked;
961 if (!add_to_swap(page, page_list))
962 goto activate_locked;
963 may_enter_fs = 1;
965 /* Adding to swap updated mapping */
966 mapping = page_mapping(page);
970 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
971 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
973 if (page_mapped(page) && mapping) {
974 switch (try_to_unmap(page, ttu_flags)) {
975 case SWAP_FAIL:
976 goto activate_locked;
977 case SWAP_AGAIN:
978 goto keep_locked;
979 case SWAP_MLOCK:
980 goto cull_mlocked;
981 case SWAP_SUCCESS:
982 ; /* try to free the page below */
986 if (PageDirty(page)) {
988 * Only kswapd can writeback filesystem pages to
989 * avoid risk of stack overflow but only writeback
990 * if many dirty pages have been encountered.
992 if (page_is_file_cache(page) &&
993 (!current_is_kswapd() ||
994 !zone_is_reclaim_dirty(zone))) {
996 * Immediately reclaim when written back.
997 * Similar in principal to deactivate_page()
998 * except we already have the page isolated
999 * and know it's dirty
1001 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE);
1002 SetPageReclaim(page);
1004 goto keep_locked;
1007 if (references == PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN)
1008 goto keep_locked;
1009 if (!may_enter_fs)
1010 goto keep_locked;
1011 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1012 goto keep_locked;
1014 /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
1015 switch (pageout(page, mapping, sc)) {
1016 case PAGE_KEEP:
1017 goto keep_locked;
1018 case PAGE_ACTIVATE:
1019 goto activate_locked;
1020 case PAGE_SUCCESS:
1021 if (PageWriteback(page))
1022 goto keep;
1023 if (PageDirty(page))
1024 goto keep;
1027 * A synchronous write - probably a ramdisk. Go
1028 * ahead and try to reclaim the page.
1030 if (!trylock_page(page))
1031 goto keep;
1032 if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
1033 goto keep_locked;
1034 mapping = page_mapping(page);
1035 case PAGE_CLEAN:
1036 ; /* try to free the page below */
1041 * If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
1042 * associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
1043 * the page as well.
1045 * We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
1046 * try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
1047 * possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
1048 * clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
1049 * buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
1050 * will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
1051 * try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
1052 * drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
1054 * Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
1055 * the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
1056 * truncate_complete_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
1057 * and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
1058 * process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
1059 * Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
1061 if (page_has_private(page)) {
1062 if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
1063 goto activate_locked;
1064 if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1) {
1065 unlock_page(page);
1066 if (put_page_testzero(page))
1067 goto free_it;
1068 else {
1070 * rare race with speculative reference.
1071 * the speculative reference will free
1072 * this page shortly, so we may
1073 * increment nr_reclaimed here (and
1074 * leave it off the LRU).
1076 nr_reclaimed++;
1077 continue;
1082 if (!mapping || !__remove_mapping(mapping, page, true))
1083 goto keep_locked;
1086 * At this point, we have no other references and there is
1087 * no way to pick any more up (removed from LRU, removed
1088 * from pagecache). Can use non-atomic bitops now (and
1089 * we obviously don't have to worry about waking up a process
1090 * waiting on the page lock, because there are no references.
1092 __clear_page_locked(page);
1093 free_it:
1094 nr_reclaimed++;
1097 * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would
1098 * appear not as the counts should be low
1100 list_add(&page->lru, &free_pages);
1101 continue;
1103 cull_mlocked:
1104 if (PageSwapCache(page))
1105 try_to_free_swap(page);
1106 unlock_page(page);
1107 putback_lru_page(page);
1108 continue;
1110 activate_locked:
1111 /* Not a candidate for swapping, so reclaim swap space. */
1112 if (PageSwapCache(page) && vm_swap_full())
1113 try_to_free_swap(page);
1114 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
1115 SetPageActive(page);
1116 pgactivate++;
1117 keep_locked:
1118 unlock_page(page);
1119 keep:
1120 list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
1121 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page), page);
1124 free_hot_cold_page_list(&free_pages, 1);
1126 list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
1127 count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate);
1128 mem_cgroup_uncharge_end();
1129 *ret_nr_dirty += nr_dirty;
1130 *ret_nr_congested += nr_congested;
1131 *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty += nr_unqueued_dirty;
1132 *ret_nr_writeback += nr_writeback;
1133 *ret_nr_immediate += nr_immediate;
1134 return nr_reclaimed;
1137 unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
1138 struct list_head *page_list)
1140 struct scan_control sc = {
1141 .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
1142 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
1143 .may_unmap = 1,
1145 unsigned long ret, dummy1, dummy2, dummy3, dummy4, dummy5;
1146 struct page *page, *next;
1147 LIST_HEAD(clean_pages);
1149 list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, page_list, lru) {
1150 if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page) &&
1151 !isolated_balloon_page(page)) {
1152 ClearPageActive(page);
1153 list_move(&page->lru, &clean_pages);
1157 ret = shrink_page_list(&clean_pages, zone, &sc,
1158 TTU_UNMAP|TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS,
1159 &dummy1, &dummy2, &dummy3, &dummy4, &dummy5, true);
1160 list_splice(&clean_pages, page_list);
1161 mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, -ret);
1162 return ret;
1166 * Attempt to remove the specified page from its LRU. Only take this page
1167 * if it is of the appropriate PageActive status. Pages which are being
1168 * freed elsewhere are also ignored.
1170 * page: page to consider
1171 * mode: one of the LRU isolation modes defined above
1173 * returns 0 on success, -ve errno on failure.
1175 int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
1177 int ret = -EINVAL;
1179 /* Only take pages on the LRU. */
1180 if (!PageLRU(page))
1181 return ret;
1183 /* Compaction should not handle unevictable pages but CMA can do so */
1184 if (PageUnevictable(page) && !(mode & ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE))
1185 return ret;
1187 ret = -EBUSY;
1190 * To minimise LRU disruption, the caller can indicate that it only
1191 * wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
1192 * blocking - clean pages for the most part.
1194 * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
1195 * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
1197 * ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
1198 * that it is possible to migrate without blocking
1200 if (mode & (ISOLATE_CLEAN|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE)) {
1201 /* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
1202 if (PageWriteback(page))
1203 return ret;
1205 if (PageDirty(page)) {
1206 struct address_space *mapping;
1208 /* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
1209 if (mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN)
1210 return ret;
1213 * Only pages without mappings or that have a
1214 * ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
1215 * without blocking
1217 mapping = page_mapping(page);
1218 if (mapping && !mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
1219 return ret;
1223 if ((mode & ISOLATE_UNMAPPED) && page_mapped(page))
1224 return ret;
1226 if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
1228 * Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
1229 * sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
1230 * page release code relies on it.
1232 ClearPageLRU(page);
1233 ret = 0;
1236 return ret;
1240 * zone->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that
1241 * shrink the lists perform better by taking out a batch of pages
1242 * and working on them outside the LRU lock.
1244 * For pagecache intensive workloads, this function is the hottest
1245 * spot in the kernel (apart from copy_*_user functions).
1247 * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function.
1249 * @nr_to_scan: The number of pages to look through on the list.
1250 * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from.
1251 * @dst: The temp list to put pages on to.
1252 * @nr_scanned: The number of pages that were scanned.
1253 * @sc: The scan_control struct for this reclaim session
1254 * @mode: One of the LRU isolation modes
1255 * @lru: LRU list id for isolating
1257 * returns how many pages were moved onto *@dst.
1259 static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1260 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *dst,
1261 unsigned long *nr_scanned, struct scan_control *sc,
1262 isolate_mode_t mode, enum lru_list lru)
1264 struct list_head *src = &lruvec->lists[lru];
1265 unsigned long nr_taken = 0;
1266 unsigned long scan;
1268 for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++) {
1269 struct page *page;
1270 int nr_pages;
1272 page = lru_to_page(src);
1273 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, src, flags);
1275 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLRU(page), page);
1277 switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) {
1278 case 0:
1279 nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1280 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, -nr_pages);
1281 list_move(&page->lru, dst);
1282 nr_taken += nr_pages;
1283 break;
1285 case -EBUSY:
1286 /* else it is being freed elsewhere */
1287 list_move(&page->lru, src);
1288 continue;
1290 default:
1291 BUG();
1295 *nr_scanned = scan;
1296 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc->order, nr_to_scan, scan,
1297 nr_taken, mode, is_file_lru(lru));
1298 return nr_taken;
1302 * isolate_lru_page - tries to isolate a page from its LRU list
1303 * @page: page to isolate from its LRU list
1305 * Isolates a @page from an LRU list, clears PageLRU and adjusts the
1306 * vmstat statistic corresponding to whatever LRU list the page was on.
1308 * Returns 0 if the page was removed from an LRU list.
1309 * Returns -EBUSY if the page was not on an LRU list.
1311 * The returned page will have PageLRU() cleared. If it was found on
1312 * the active list, it will have PageActive set. If it was found on
1313 * the unevictable list, it will have the PageUnevictable bit set. That flag
1314 * may need to be cleared by the caller before letting the page go.
1316 * The vmstat statistic corresponding to the list on which the page was
1317 * found will be decremented.
1319 * Restrictions:
1320 * (1) Must be called with an elevated refcount on the page. This is a
1321 * fundamentnal difference from isolate_lru_pages (which is called
1322 * without a stable reference).
1323 * (2) the lru_lock must not be held.
1324 * (3) interrupts must be enabled.
1326 int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
1328 int ret = -EBUSY;
1330 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
1332 if (PageLRU(page)) {
1333 struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
1334 struct lruvec *lruvec;
1336 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1337 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1338 if (PageLRU(page)) {
1339 int lru = page_lru(page);
1340 get_page(page);
1341 ClearPageLRU(page);
1342 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1343 ret = 0;
1345 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1347 return ret;
1351 * A direct reclaimer may isolate SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages from the LRU list and
1352 * then get resheduled. When there are massive number of tasks doing page
1353 * allocation, such sleeping direct reclaimers may keep piling up on each CPU,
1354 * the LRU list will go small and be scanned faster than necessary, leading to
1355 * unnecessary swapping, thrashing and OOM.
1357 static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
1358 struct scan_control *sc)
1360 unsigned long inactive, isolated;
1362 if (current_is_kswapd())
1363 return 0;
1365 if (!global_reclaim(sc))
1366 return 0;
1368 if (file) {
1369 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
1370 isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
1371 } else {
1372 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
1373 isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
1377 * GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers are allowed to isolate more pages, so they
1378 * won't get blocked by normal direct-reclaimers, forming a circular
1379 * deadlock.
1381 if ((sc->gfp_mask & GFP_IOFS) == GFP_IOFS)
1382 inactive >>= 3;
1384 return isolated > inactive;
1387 static noinline_for_stack void
1388 putback_inactive_pages(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *page_list)
1390 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1391 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1392 LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free);
1395 * Put back any unfreeable pages.
1397 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
1398 struct page *page = lru_to_page(page_list);
1399 int lru;
1401 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
1402 list_del(&page->lru);
1403 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
1404 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1405 putback_lru_page(page);
1406 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1407 continue;
1410 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1412 SetPageLRU(page);
1413 lru = page_lru(page);
1414 add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1416 if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
1417 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1418 int numpages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1419 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += numpages;
1421 if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
1422 __ClearPageLRU(page);
1423 __ClearPageActive(page);
1424 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1426 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
1427 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1428 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page))(page);
1429 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1430 } else
1431 list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
1436 * To save our caller's stack, now use input list for pages to free.
1438 list_splice(&pages_to_free, page_list);
1442 * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone(). It returns the number
1443 * of reclaimed pages
1445 static noinline_for_stack unsigned long
1446 shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
1447 struct scan_control *sc, enum lru_list lru)
1449 LIST_HEAD(page_list);
1450 unsigned long nr_scanned;
1451 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
1452 unsigned long nr_taken;
1453 unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
1454 unsigned long nr_congested = 0;
1455 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty = 0;
1456 unsigned long nr_writeback = 0;
1457 unsigned long nr_immediate = 0;
1458 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = 0;
1459 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1460 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1461 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1463 while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(zone, file, sc))) {
1464 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1466 /* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
1467 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1468 return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
1471 lru_add_drain();
1473 if (!sc->may_unmap)
1474 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
1475 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1476 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
1478 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1480 nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &page_list,
1481 &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru);
1483 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_taken);
1484 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
1486 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1487 zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned;
1488 if (current_is_kswapd())
1489 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scanned);
1490 else
1491 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone, nr_scanned);
1493 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1495 if (nr_taken == 0)
1496 return 0;
1498 nr_reclaimed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, zone, sc, TTU_UNMAP,
1499 &nr_dirty, &nr_unqueued_dirty, &nr_congested,
1500 &nr_writeback, &nr_immediate,
1501 false);
1503 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1505 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
1507 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1508 if (current_is_kswapd())
1509 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_KSWAPD, zone,
1510 nr_reclaimed);
1511 else
1512 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_DIRECT, zone,
1513 nr_reclaimed);
1516 putback_inactive_pages(lruvec, &page_list);
1518 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
1520 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1522 free_hot_cold_page_list(&page_list, 1);
1525 * If reclaim is isolating dirty pages under writeback, it implies
1526 * that the long-lived page allocation rate is exceeding the page
1527 * laundering rate. Either the global limits are not being effective
1528 * at throttling processes due to the page distribution throughout
1529 * zones or there is heavy usage of a slow backing device. The
1530 * only option is to throttle from reclaim context which is not ideal
1531 * as there is no guarantee the dirtying process is throttled in the
1532 * same way balance_dirty_pages() manages.
1534 * Once a zone is flagged ZONE_WRITEBACK, kswapd will count the number
1535 * of pages under pages flagged for immediate reclaim and stall if any
1536 * are encountered in the nr_immediate check below.
1538 if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback == nr_taken)
1539 zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK);
1542 * memcg will stall in page writeback so only consider forcibly
1543 * stalling for global reclaim
1545 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1547 * Tag a zone as congested if all the dirty pages scanned were
1548 * backed by a congested BDI and wait_iff_congested will stall.
1550 if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested)
1551 zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
1554 * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
1555 * implies that flushers are not keeping up. In this case, flag
1556 * the zone ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY and kswapd will start writing
1557 * pages from reclaim context. It will forcibly stall in the
1558 * next check.
1560 if (nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
1561 zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY);
1564 * In addition, if kswapd scans pages marked marked for
1565 * immediate reclaim and under writeback (nr_immediate), it
1566 * implies that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
1567 * they are written so also forcibly stall.
1569 if (nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken || nr_immediate)
1570 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1574 * Stall direct reclaim for IO completions if underlying BDIs or zone
1575 * is congested. Allow kswapd to continue until it starts encountering
1576 * unqueued dirty pages or cycling through the LRU too quickly.
1578 if (!sc->hibernation_mode && !current_is_kswapd())
1579 wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1581 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive(zone->zone_pgdat->node_id,
1582 zone_idx(zone),
1583 nr_scanned, nr_reclaimed,
1584 sc->priority,
1585 trace_shrink_flags(file));
1586 return nr_reclaimed;
1590 * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
1592 * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
1593 * processes, from rmap.
1595 * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is
1596 * appropriate to hold zone->lru_lock across the whole operation. But if
1597 * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we
1598 * should drop zone->lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance
1599 * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them.
1600 * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because
1601 * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page.
1603 * The downside is that we have to touch page->_count against each page.
1604 * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
1607 static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
1608 struct list_head *list,
1609 struct list_head *pages_to_free,
1610 enum lru_list lru)
1612 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1613 unsigned long pgmoved = 0;
1614 struct page *page;
1615 int nr_pages;
1617 while (!list_empty(list)) {
1618 page = lru_to_page(list);
1619 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1621 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
1622 SetPageLRU(page);
1624 nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1625 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, nr_pages);
1626 list_move(&page->lru, &lruvec->lists[lru]);
1627 pgmoved += nr_pages;
1629 if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
1630 __ClearPageLRU(page);
1631 __ClearPageActive(page);
1632 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1634 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
1635 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1636 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page))(page);
1637 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1638 } else
1639 list_add(&page->lru, pages_to_free);
1642 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, pgmoved);
1643 if (!is_active_lru(lru))
1644 __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, pgmoved);
1647 static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1648 struct lruvec *lruvec,
1649 struct scan_control *sc,
1650 enum lru_list lru)
1652 unsigned long nr_taken;
1653 unsigned long nr_scanned;
1654 unsigned long vm_flags;
1655 LIST_HEAD(l_hold); /* The pages which were snipped off */
1656 LIST_HEAD(l_active);
1657 LIST_HEAD(l_inactive);
1658 struct page *page;
1659 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1660 unsigned long nr_rotated = 0;
1661 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = 0;
1662 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1663 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1665 lru_add_drain();
1667 if (!sc->may_unmap)
1668 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
1669 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1670 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
1672 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1674 nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &l_hold,
1675 &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru);
1676 if (global_reclaim(sc))
1677 zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned;
1679 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
1681 __count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL, zone, nr_scanned);
1682 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_taken);
1683 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
1684 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1686 while (!list_empty(&l_hold)) {
1687 cond_resched();
1688 page = lru_to_page(&l_hold);
1689 list_del(&page->lru);
1691 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
1692 putback_lru_page(page);
1693 continue;
1696 if (unlikely(buffer_heads_over_limit)) {
1697 if (page_has_private(page) && trylock_page(page)) {
1698 if (page_has_private(page))
1699 try_to_release_page(page, 0);
1700 unlock_page(page);
1704 if (page_referenced(page, 0, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
1705 &vm_flags)) {
1706 nr_rotated += hpage_nr_pages(page);
1708 * Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
1709 * give them one more trip around the active list. So
1710 * that executable code get better chances to stay in
1711 * memory under moderate memory pressure. Anon pages
1712 * are not likely to be evicted by use-once streaming
1713 * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages,
1714 * so we ignore them here.
1716 if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && page_is_file_cache(page)) {
1717 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
1718 continue;
1722 ClearPageActive(page); /* we are de-activating */
1723 list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
1727 * Move pages back to the lru list.
1729 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1731 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as rotated,
1732 * even though only some of them are actually re-activated. This
1733 * helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous pages in
1734 * get_scan_ratio.
1736 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += nr_rotated;
1738 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_active, &l_hold, lru);
1739 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_inactive, &l_hold, lru - LRU_ACTIVE);
1740 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
1741 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1743 free_hot_cold_page_list(&l_hold, 1);
1746 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
1747 static int inactive_anon_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
1749 unsigned long active, inactive;
1751 active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON);
1752 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
1754 if (inactive * zone->inactive_ratio < active)
1755 return 1;
1757 return 0;
1761 * inactive_anon_is_low - check if anonymous pages need to be deactivated
1762 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1764 * Returns true if the zone does not have enough inactive anon pages,
1765 * meaning some active anon pages need to be deactivated.
1767 static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1770 * If we don't have swap space, anonymous page deactivation
1771 * is pointless.
1773 if (!total_swap_pages)
1774 return 0;
1776 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
1777 return mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec);
1779 return inactive_anon_is_low_global(lruvec_zone(lruvec));
1781 #else
1782 static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1784 return 0;
1786 #endif
1789 * inactive_file_is_low - check if file pages need to be deactivated
1790 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1792 * When the system is doing streaming IO, memory pressure here
1793 * ensures that active file pages get deactivated, until more
1794 * than half of the file pages are on the inactive list.
1796 * Once we get to that situation, protect the system's working
1797 * set from being evicted by disabling active file page aging.
1799 * This uses a different ratio than the anonymous pages, because
1800 * the page cache uses a use-once replacement algorithm.
1802 static int inactive_file_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1804 unsigned long inactive;
1805 unsigned long active;
1807 inactive = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
1808 active = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
1810 return active > inactive;
1813 static int inactive_list_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
1815 if (is_file_lru(lru))
1816 return inactive_file_is_low(lruvec);
1817 else
1818 return inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec);
1821 static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1822 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
1824 if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
1825 if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, lru))
1826 shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
1827 return 0;
1830 return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
1833 static int vmscan_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc)
1835 if (global_reclaim(sc))
1836 return vm_swappiness;
1837 return mem_cgroup_swappiness(sc->target_mem_cgroup);
1840 enum scan_balance {
1841 SCAN_EQUAL,
1842 SCAN_FRACT,
1843 SCAN_ANON,
1844 SCAN_FILE,
1848 * Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
1849 * scanned. The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
1850 * by looking at the fraction of the pages scanned we did rotate back
1851 * onto the active list instead of evict.
1853 * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
1854 * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
1856 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
1857 unsigned long *nr)
1859 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1860 u64 fraction[2];
1861 u64 denominator = 0; /* gcc */
1862 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1863 unsigned long anon_prio, file_prio;
1864 enum scan_balance scan_balance;
1865 unsigned long anon, file;
1866 bool force_scan = false;
1867 unsigned long ap, fp;
1868 enum lru_list lru;
1871 * If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0. This
1872 * results in no scanning on this priority and a potential
1873 * priority drop. Global direct reclaim can go to the next
1874 * zone and tends to have no problems. Global kswapd is for
1875 * zone balancing and it needs to scan a minimum amount. When
1876 * reclaiming for a memcg, a priority drop can cause high
1877 * latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
1878 * well.
1880 if (current_is_kswapd() && !zone_reclaimable(zone))
1881 force_scan = true;
1882 if (!global_reclaim(sc))
1883 force_scan = true;
1885 /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
1886 if (!sc->may_swap || (get_nr_swap_pages() <= 0)) {
1887 scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
1888 goto out;
1892 * Global reclaim will swap to prevent OOM even with no
1893 * swappiness, but memcg users want to use this knob to
1894 * disable swapping for individual groups completely when
1895 * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be
1896 * too expensive.
1898 if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !vmscan_swappiness(sc)) {
1899 scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
1900 goto out;
1904 * Do not apply any pressure balancing cleverness when the
1905 * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally
1906 * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping).
1908 if (!sc->priority && vmscan_swappiness(sc)) {
1909 scan_balance = SCAN_EQUAL;
1910 goto out;
1913 anon = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
1914 get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
1915 file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
1916 get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
1919 * Prevent the reclaimer from falling into the cache trap: as
1920 * cache pages start out inactive, every cache fault will tip
1921 * the scan balance towards the file LRU. And as the file LRU
1922 * shrinks, so does the window for rotation from references.
1923 * This means we have a runaway feedback loop where a tiny
1924 * thrashing file LRU becomes infinitely more attractive than
1925 * anon pages. Try to detect this based on file LRU size.
1927 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1928 unsigned long free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
1930 if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
1931 scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
1932 goto out;
1937 * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim
1938 * anything from the anonymous working set right now.
1940 if (!inactive_file_is_low(lruvec)) {
1941 scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
1942 goto out;
1945 scan_balance = SCAN_FRACT;
1948 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
1949 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
1951 anon_prio = vmscan_swappiness(sc);
1952 file_prio = 200 - anon_prio;
1955 * OK, so we have swap space and a fair amount of page cache
1956 * pages. We use the recently rotated / recently scanned
1957 * ratios to determine how valuable each cache is.
1959 * Because workloads change over time (and to avoid overflow)
1960 * we keep these statistics as a floating average, which ends
1961 * up weighing recent references more than old ones.
1963 * anon in [0], file in [1]
1965 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1966 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] > anon / 4)) {
1967 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] /= 2;
1968 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] /= 2;
1971 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] > file / 4)) {
1972 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] /= 2;
1973 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] /= 2;
1977 * The amount of pressure on anon vs file pages is inversely
1978 * proportional to the fraction of recently scanned pages on
1979 * each list that were recently referenced and in active use.
1981 ap = anon_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] + 1);
1982 ap /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] + 1;
1984 fp = file_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] + 1);
1985 fp /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] + 1;
1986 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1988 fraction[0] = ap;
1989 fraction[1] = fp;
1990 denominator = ap + fp + 1;
1991 out:
1992 for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
1993 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1994 unsigned long size;
1995 unsigned long scan;
1997 size = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
1998 scan = size >> sc->priority;
2000 if (!scan && force_scan)
2001 scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
2003 switch (scan_balance) {
2004 case SCAN_EQUAL:
2005 /* Scan lists relative to size */
2006 break;
2007 case SCAN_FRACT:
2009 * Scan types proportional to swappiness and
2010 * their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
2012 scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
2013 break;
2014 case SCAN_FILE:
2015 case SCAN_ANON:
2016 /* Scan one type exclusively */
2017 if ((scan_balance == SCAN_FILE) != file)
2018 scan = 0;
2019 break;
2020 default:
2021 /* Look ma, no brain */
2022 BUG();
2024 nr[lru] = scan;
2029 * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
2031 static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
2033 unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS];
2034 unsigned long targets[NR_LRU_LISTS];
2035 unsigned long nr_to_scan;
2036 enum lru_list lru;
2037 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
2038 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim = sc->nr_to_reclaim;
2039 struct blk_plug plug;
2040 bool scan_adjusted = false;
2042 get_scan_count(lruvec, sc, nr);
2044 /* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */
2045 memcpy(targets, nr, sizeof(nr));
2047 blk_start_plug(&plug);
2048 while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
2049 nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
2050 unsigned long nr_anon, nr_file, percentage;
2051 unsigned long nr_scanned;
2053 for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
2054 if (nr[lru]) {
2055 nr_to_scan = min(nr[lru], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
2056 nr[lru] -= nr_to_scan;
2058 nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(lru, nr_to_scan,
2059 lruvec, sc);
2063 if (nr_reclaimed < nr_to_reclaim || scan_adjusted)
2064 continue;
2067 * For global direct reclaim, reclaim only the number of pages
2068 * requested. Less care is taken to scan proportionally as it
2069 * is more important to minimise direct reclaim stall latency
2070 * than it is to properly age the LRU lists.
2072 if (global_reclaim(sc) && !current_is_kswapd())
2073 break;
2076 * For kswapd and memcg, reclaim at least the number of pages
2077 * requested. Ensure that the anon and file LRUs shrink
2078 * proportionally what was requested by get_scan_count(). We
2079 * stop reclaiming one LRU and reduce the amount scanning
2080 * proportional to the original scan target.
2082 nr_file = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] + nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE];
2083 nr_anon = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] + nr[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON];
2085 if (nr_file > nr_anon) {
2086 unsigned long scan_target = targets[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] +
2087 targets[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON] + 1;
2088 lru = LRU_BASE;
2089 percentage = nr_anon * 100 / scan_target;
2090 } else {
2091 unsigned long scan_target = targets[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] +
2092 targets[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + 1;
2093 lru = LRU_FILE;
2094 percentage = nr_file * 100 / scan_target;
2097 /* Stop scanning the smaller of the LRU */
2098 nr[lru] = 0;
2099 nr[lru + LRU_ACTIVE] = 0;
2102 * Recalculate the other LRU scan count based on its original
2103 * scan target and the percentage scanning already complete
2105 lru = (lru == LRU_FILE) ? LRU_BASE : LRU_FILE;
2106 nr_scanned = targets[lru] - nr[lru];
2107 nr[lru] = targets[lru] * (100 - percentage) / 100;
2108 nr[lru] -= min(nr[lru], nr_scanned);
2110 lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
2111 nr_scanned = targets[lru] - nr[lru];
2112 nr[lru] = targets[lru] * (100 - percentage) / 100;
2113 nr[lru] -= min(nr[lru], nr_scanned);
2115 scan_adjusted = true;
2117 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
2118 sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_reclaimed;
2121 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
2122 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
2124 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec))
2125 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
2126 sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
2128 throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
2131 /* Use reclaim/compaction for costly allocs or under memory pressure */
2132 static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct scan_control *sc)
2134 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && sc->order &&
2135 (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER ||
2136 sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2))
2137 return true;
2139 return false;
2143 * Reclaim/compaction is used for high-order allocation requests. It reclaims
2144 * order-0 pages before compacting the zone. should_continue_reclaim() returns
2145 * true if more pages should be reclaimed such that when the page allocator
2146 * calls try_to_compact_zone() that it will have enough free pages to succeed.
2147 * It will give up earlier than that if there is difficulty reclaiming pages.
2149 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
2150 unsigned long nr_reclaimed,
2151 unsigned long nr_scanned,
2152 struct scan_control *sc)
2154 unsigned long pages_for_compaction;
2155 unsigned long inactive_lru_pages;
2157 /* If not in reclaim/compaction mode, stop */
2158 if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc))
2159 return false;
2161 /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
2162 if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT) {
2164 * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
2165 * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
2166 * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
2167 * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
2169 if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
2170 return false;
2171 } else {
2173 * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
2174 * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
2175 * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
2176 * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
2177 * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
2178 * the resulting allocation attempt fails
2180 if (!nr_reclaimed)
2181 return false;
2185 * If we have not reclaimed enough pages for compaction and the
2186 * inactive lists are large enough, continue reclaiming
2188 pages_for_compaction = (2UL << sc->order);
2189 inactive_lru_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
2190 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
2191 inactive_lru_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
2192 if (sc->nr_reclaimed < pages_for_compaction &&
2193 inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction)
2194 return true;
2196 /* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
2197 switch (compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order)) {
2198 case COMPACT_PARTIAL:
2199 case COMPACT_CONTINUE:
2200 return false;
2201 default:
2202 return true;
2206 static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
2208 unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
2210 do {
2211 struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
2212 struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie reclaim = {
2213 .zone = zone,
2214 .priority = sc->priority,
2216 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
2218 nr_reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;
2219 nr_scanned = sc->nr_scanned;
2221 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim);
2222 do {
2223 struct lruvec *lruvec;
2225 lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2227 shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc);
2230 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
2231 * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
2232 * zone.
2234 * Limit reclaim, on the other hand, only cares about
2235 * nr_to_reclaim pages to be reclaimed and it will
2236 * retry with decreasing priority if one round over the
2237 * whole hierarchy is not sufficient.
2239 if (!global_reclaim(sc) &&
2240 sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim) {
2241 mem_cgroup_iter_break(root, memcg);
2242 break;
2244 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg, &reclaim);
2245 } while (memcg);
2247 vmpressure(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
2248 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
2249 sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed);
2251 } while (should_continue_reclaim(zone, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
2252 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
2255 /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
2256 static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
2258 unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
2259 bool watermark_ok;
2261 /* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
2262 if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
2263 return false;
2266 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
2267 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
2268 * there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
2269 * a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
2271 balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone),
2272 (zone->managed_pages + KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO-1) /
2273 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO);
2274 watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << sc->order);
2275 watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
2278 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
2279 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
2281 if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
2282 return watermark_ok;
2284 /* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
2285 if (!compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order))
2286 return false;
2288 return watermark_ok;
2292 * This is the direct reclaim path, for page-allocating processes. We only
2293 * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
2294 * request.
2296 * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone).
2297 * Because:
2298 * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
2299 * allocation or
2300 * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones
2301 * must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min'
2302 * zone defense algorithm.
2304 * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
2305 * scan then give up on it.
2307 * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
2308 * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
2309 * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
2310 * further reclaim.
2312 static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
2314 struct zoneref *z;
2315 struct zone *zone;
2316 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
2317 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
2318 unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
2319 bool aborted_reclaim = false;
2320 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
2321 gfp_t orig_mask;
2322 struct shrink_control shrink = {
2323 .gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
2325 enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
2328 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
2329 * allowed level, force direct reclaim to scan the highmem zone as
2330 * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads
2332 orig_mask = sc->gfp_mask;
2333 if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
2334 sc->gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
2336 nodes_clear(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
2338 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
2339 gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
2340 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2341 continue;
2343 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
2344 * to global LRU.
2346 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
2347 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
2348 continue;
2350 lru_pages += zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
2351 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone), shrink.nodes_to_scan);
2353 if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
2354 !zone_reclaimable(zone))
2355 continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
2356 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
2358 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
2359 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
2360 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
2361 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
2362 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
2363 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
2364 * page allocations.
2366 if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
2367 && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
2368 aborted_reclaim = true;
2369 continue;
2373 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
2374 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
2375 * scanned pages. This works for global memory pressure
2376 * and balancing, not for a memcg's limit.
2378 nr_soft_scanned = 0;
2379 nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
2380 sc->order, sc->gfp_mask,
2381 &nr_soft_scanned);
2382 sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
2383 sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
2384 /* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
2387 shrink_zone(zone, sc);
2391 * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from over limit cgroups
2392 * but do shrink slab at least once when aborting reclaim for
2393 * compaction to avoid unevenly scanning file/anon LRU pages over slab
2394 * pages.
2396 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
2397 shrink_slab(&shrink, sc->nr_scanned, lru_pages);
2398 if (reclaim_state) {
2399 sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
2400 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
2405 * Restore to original mask to avoid the impact on the caller if we
2406 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
2408 sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
2410 return aborted_reclaim;
2413 /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
2414 static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
2415 struct scan_control *sc)
2417 struct zoneref *z;
2418 struct zone *zone;
2420 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
2421 gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
2422 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2423 continue;
2424 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
2425 continue;
2426 if (zone_reclaimable(zone))
2427 return false;
2430 return true;
2434 * This is the main entry point to direct page reclaim.
2436 * If a full scan of the inactive list fails to free enough memory then we
2437 * are "out of memory" and something needs to be killed.
2439 * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
2440 * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
2441 * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit
2442 * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the
2443 * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not
2444 * work, and the allocation attempt will fail.
2446 * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
2447 * else, the number of pages reclaimed
2449 static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
2450 struct scan_control *sc)
2452 unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
2453 unsigned long writeback_threshold;
2454 bool aborted_reclaim;
2456 delayacct_freepages_start();
2458 if (global_reclaim(sc))
2459 count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
2461 do {
2462 vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
2463 sc->priority);
2464 sc->nr_scanned = 0;
2465 aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
2467 total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
2468 if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
2469 goto out;
2472 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
2473 * writepage even in laptop mode.
2475 if (sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
2476 sc->may_writepage = 1;
2479 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
2480 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
2481 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
2482 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
2483 * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
2485 writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
2486 if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
2487 wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode ? 0 : total_scanned,
2488 WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
2489 sc->may_writepage = 1;
2491 } while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
2493 out:
2494 delayacct_freepages_end();
2496 if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
2497 return sc->nr_reclaimed;
2500 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
2501 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
2502 * check.
2504 if (oom_killer_disabled)
2505 return 0;
2507 /* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
2508 if (aborted_reclaim)
2509 return 1;
2511 /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
2512 if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc))
2513 return 1;
2515 return 0;
2518 static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat)
2520 struct zone *zone;
2521 unsigned long pfmemalloc_reserve = 0;
2522 unsigned long free_pages = 0;
2523 int i;
2524 bool wmark_ok;
2526 for (i = 0; i <= ZONE_NORMAL; i++) {
2527 zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
2528 pfmemalloc_reserve += min_wmark_pages(zone);
2529 free_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
2532 wmark_ok = free_pages > pfmemalloc_reserve / 2;
2534 /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */
2535 if (!wmark_ok && waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait)) {
2536 pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx,
2537 (enum zone_type)ZONE_NORMAL);
2538 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
2541 return wmark_ok;
2545 * Throttle direct reclaimers if backing storage is backed by the network
2546 * and the PFMEMALLOC reserve for the preferred node is getting dangerously
2547 * depleted. kswapd will continue to make progress and wake the processes
2548 * when the low watermark is reached.
2550 * Returns true if a fatal signal was delivered during throttling. If this
2551 * happens, the page allocator should not consider triggering the OOM killer.
2553 static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist,
2554 nodemask_t *nodemask)
2556 struct zone *zone;
2557 int high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
2558 pg_data_t *pgdat;
2561 * Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly
2562 * responsible for cleaning pages necessary for reclaim to make forward
2563 * progress. kjournald for example may enter direct reclaim while
2564 * committing a transaction where throttling it could forcing other
2565 * processes to block on log_wait_commit().
2567 if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
2568 goto out;
2571 * If a fatal signal is pending, this process should not throttle.
2572 * It should return quickly so it can exit and free its memory
2574 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
2575 goto out;
2577 /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */
2578 first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, NULL, &zone);
2579 pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
2580 if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
2581 goto out;
2583 /* Account for the throttling */
2584 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE);
2587 * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it
2588 * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal
2589 * transaction in the case of a filesystem like ext[3|4]. In this case,
2590 * it is not safe to block on pfmemalloc_wait as kswapd could be
2591 * blocked waiting on the same lock. Instead, throttle for up to a
2592 * second before continuing.
2594 if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
2595 wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait,
2596 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat), HZ);
2598 goto check_pending;
2601 /* Throttle until kswapd wakes the process */
2602 wait_event_killable(zone->zone_pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait,
2603 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat));
2605 check_pending:
2606 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
2607 return true;
2609 out:
2610 return false;
2613 unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
2614 gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
2616 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
2617 struct scan_control sc = {
2618 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask)),
2619 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2620 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2621 .may_unmap = 1,
2622 .may_swap = 1,
2623 .order = order,
2624 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2625 .target_mem_cgroup = NULL,
2626 .nodemask = nodemask,
2630 * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal was delivered while throttled.
2631 * 1 is returned so that the page allocator does not OOM kill at this
2632 * point.
2634 if (throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, zonelist, nodemask))
2635 return 1;
2637 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin(order,
2638 sc.may_writepage,
2639 gfp_mask);
2641 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
2643 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
2645 return nr_reclaimed;
2648 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
2650 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
2651 gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
2652 struct zone *zone,
2653 unsigned long *nr_scanned)
2655 struct scan_control sc = {
2656 .nr_scanned = 0,
2657 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2658 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2659 .may_unmap = 1,
2660 .may_swap = !noswap,
2661 .order = 0,
2662 .priority = 0,
2663 .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
2665 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2667 sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
2668 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
2670 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin(sc.order,
2671 sc.may_writepage,
2672 sc.gfp_mask);
2675 * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
2676 * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
2677 * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_zone from balance_pgdat
2678 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
2679 * the priority and make it zero.
2681 shrink_lruvec(lruvec, &sc);
2683 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
2685 *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
2686 return sc.nr_reclaimed;
2689 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
2690 gfp_t gfp_mask,
2691 bool noswap)
2693 struct zonelist *zonelist;
2694 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
2695 int nid;
2696 struct scan_control sc = {
2697 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2698 .may_unmap = 1,
2699 .may_swap = !noswap,
2700 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2701 .order = 0,
2702 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2703 .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
2704 .nodemask = NULL, /* we don't care the placement */
2705 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
2706 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK),
2710 * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
2711 * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
2712 * scan does not need to be the current node.
2714 nid = mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(memcg);
2716 zonelist = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists;
2718 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin(0,
2719 sc.may_writepage,
2720 sc.gfp_mask);
2722 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
2724 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
2726 return nr_reclaimed;
2728 #endif
2730 static void age_active_anon(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
2732 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
2734 if (!total_swap_pages)
2735 return;
2737 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
2738 do {
2739 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2741 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec))
2742 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
2743 sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
2745 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL);
2746 } while (memcg);
2749 static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
2750 unsigned long balance_gap, int classzone_idx)
2752 if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone) +
2753 balance_gap, classzone_idx, 0))
2754 return false;
2756 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && order &&
2757 !compaction_suitable(zone, order))
2758 return false;
2760 return true;
2764 * pgdat_balanced() is used when checking if a node is balanced.
2766 * For order-0, all zones must be balanced!
2768 * For high-order allocations only zones that meet watermarks and are in a
2769 * zone allowed by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The
2770 * total of balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by
2771 * classzone_idx for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to
2772 * be balanced for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are
2773 * imbalanced zones.
2774 * The choice of 25% is due to
2775 * o a 16M DMA zone that is balanced will not balance a zone on any
2776 * reasonable sized machine
2777 * o On all other machines, the top zone must be at least a reasonable
2778 * percentage of the middle zones. For example, on 32-bit x86, highmem
2779 * would need to be at least 256M for it to be balance a whole node.
2780 * Similarly, on x86-64 the Normal zone would need to be at least 1G
2781 * to balance a node on its own. These seemed like reasonable ratios.
2783 static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
2785 unsigned long managed_pages = 0;
2786 unsigned long balanced_pages = 0;
2787 int i;
2789 /* Check the watermark levels */
2790 for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++) {
2791 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2793 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2794 continue;
2796 managed_pages += zone->managed_pages;
2799 * A special case here:
2801 * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
2802 * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
2803 * they must be considered balanced here as well!
2805 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone)) {
2806 balanced_pages += zone->managed_pages;
2807 continue;
2810 if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, i))
2811 balanced_pages += zone->managed_pages;
2812 else if (!order)
2813 return false;
2816 if (order)
2817 return balanced_pages >= (managed_pages >> 2);
2818 else
2819 return true;
2823 * Prepare kswapd for sleeping. This verifies that there are no processes
2824 * waiting in throttle_direct_reclaim() and that watermarks have been met.
2826 * Returns true if kswapd is ready to sleep
2828 static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
2829 int classzone_idx)
2831 /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
2832 if (remaining)
2833 return false;
2836 * There is a potential race between when kswapd checks its watermarks
2837 * and a process gets throttled. There is also a potential race if
2838 * processes get throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits therby
2839 * balancing the zones that causes kswapd to miss a wakeup. If kswapd
2840 * is going to sleep, no process should be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait
2841 * so wake them now if necessary. If necessary, processes will wake
2842 * kswapd and get throttled again
2844 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait)) {
2845 wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
2846 return false;
2849 return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, classzone_idx);
2853 * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach
2854 * the high watermark.
2856 * Returns true if kswapd scanned at least the requested number of pages to
2857 * reclaim or if the lack of progress was due to pages under writeback.
2858 * This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be raised.
2860 static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone,
2861 int classzone_idx,
2862 struct scan_control *sc,
2863 unsigned long lru_pages,
2864 unsigned long *nr_attempted)
2866 int testorder = sc->order;
2867 unsigned long balance_gap;
2868 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
2869 struct shrink_control shrink = {
2870 .gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
2872 bool lowmem_pressure;
2874 /* Reclaim above the high watermark. */
2875 sc->nr_to_reclaim = max(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, high_wmark_pages(zone));
2878 * Kswapd reclaims only single pages with compaction enabled. Trying
2879 * too hard to reclaim until contiguous free pages have become
2880 * available can hurt performance by evicting too much useful data
2881 * from memory. Do not reclaim more than needed for compaction.
2883 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && sc->order &&
2884 compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order) !=
2885 COMPACT_SKIPPED)
2886 testorder = 0;
2889 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one zone has way too
2890 * many pages free already. The "too many pages" is defined as the
2891 * high wmark plus a "gap" where the gap is either the low
2892 * watermark or 1% of the zone, whichever is smaller.
2894 balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone),
2895 (zone->managed_pages + KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO-1) /
2896 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO);
2899 * If there is no low memory pressure or the zone is balanced then no
2900 * reclaim is necessary
2902 lowmem_pressure = (buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem(zone));
2903 if (!lowmem_pressure && zone_balanced(zone, testorder,
2904 balance_gap, classzone_idx))
2905 return true;
2907 shrink_zone(zone, sc);
2908 nodes_clear(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
2909 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone), shrink.nodes_to_scan);
2911 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
2912 shrink_slab(&shrink, sc->nr_scanned, lru_pages);
2913 sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
2915 /* Account for the number of pages attempted to reclaim */
2916 *nr_attempted += sc->nr_to_reclaim;
2918 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK);
2921 * If a zone reaches its high watermark, consider it to be no longer
2922 * congested. It's possible there are dirty pages backed by congested
2923 * BDIs but as pressure is relieved, speculatively avoid congestion
2924 * waits.
2926 if (zone_reclaimable(zone) &&
2927 zone_balanced(zone, testorder, 0, classzone_idx)) {
2928 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
2929 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY);
2932 return sc->nr_scanned >= sc->nr_to_reclaim;
2936 * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
2937 * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone).
2939 * Returns the final order kswapd was reclaiming at
2941 * There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
2942 * This can happen if the pages are all mlocked, or if they are all used by
2943 * device drivers (say, ZONE_DMA). Or if they are all in use by hugetlb.
2944 * What we do is to detect the case where all pages in the zone have been
2945 * scanned twice and there has been zero successful reclaim. Mark the zone as
2946 * dead and from now on, only perform a short scan. Basically we're polling
2947 * the zone for when the problem goes away.
2949 * kswapd scans the zones in the highmem->normal->dma direction. It skips
2950 * zones which have free_pages > high_wmark_pages(zone), but once a zone is
2951 * found to have free_pages <= high_wmark_pages(zone), we scan that zone and the
2952 * lower zones regardless of the number of free pages in the lower zones. This
2953 * interoperates with the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging
2954 * of pages is balanced across the zones.
2956 static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
2957 int *classzone_idx)
2959 int i;
2960 int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
2961 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
2962 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
2963 struct scan_control sc = {
2964 .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
2965 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2966 .may_unmap = 1,
2967 .may_swap = 1,
2968 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2969 .order = order,
2970 .target_mem_cgroup = NULL,
2972 count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
2974 do {
2975 unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
2976 unsigned long nr_attempted = 0;
2977 bool raise_priority = true;
2978 bool pgdat_needs_compaction = (order > 0);
2980 sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
2983 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
2984 * zone which needs scanning
2986 for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
2987 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2989 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2990 continue;
2992 if (sc.priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
2993 !zone_reclaimable(zone))
2994 continue;
2997 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give
2998 * pages a chance to be referenced before reclaiming.
3000 age_active_anon(zone, &sc);
3003 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine
3004 * exceeds the maximum allowed level and this node
3005 * has a highmem zone, force kswapd to reclaim from
3006 * it to relieve lowmem pressure.
3008 if (buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem_idx(i)) {
3009 end_zone = i;
3010 break;
3013 if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0)) {
3014 end_zone = i;
3015 break;
3016 } else {
3018 * If balanced, clear the dirty and congested
3019 * flags
3021 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
3022 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY);
3026 if (i < 0)
3027 goto out;
3029 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
3030 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
3032 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3033 continue;
3035 lru_pages += zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
3038 * If any zone is currently balanced then kswapd will
3039 * not call compaction as it is expected that the
3040 * necessary pages are already available.
3042 if (pgdat_needs_compaction &&
3043 zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
3044 low_wmark_pages(zone),
3045 *classzone_idx, 0))
3046 pgdat_needs_compaction = false;
3050 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing writepage
3051 * even in laptop mode.
3053 if (sc.priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
3054 sc.may_writepage = 1;
3057 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
3058 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
3060 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
3061 * direction. This prevents the page allocator from allocating
3062 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
3063 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
3065 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
3066 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
3068 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3069 continue;
3071 if (sc.priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
3072 !zone_reclaimable(zone))
3073 continue;
3075 sc.nr_scanned = 0;
3077 nr_soft_scanned = 0;
3079 * Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
3081 nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
3082 order, sc.gfp_mask,
3083 &nr_soft_scanned);
3084 sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
3087 * There should be no need to raise the scanning
3088 * priority if enough pages are already being scanned
3089 * that that high watermark would be met at 100%
3090 * efficiency.
3092 if (kswapd_shrink_zone(zone, end_zone, &sc,
3093 lru_pages, &nr_attempted))
3094 raise_priority = false;
3098 * If the low watermark is met there is no need for processes
3099 * to be throttled on pfmemalloc_wait as they should not be
3100 * able to safely make forward progress. Wake them
3102 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait) &&
3103 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
3104 wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
3107 * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced
3108 * for high-order allocations in all zones. If twice the
3109 * allocation size has been reclaimed and the zones are still
3110 * not balanced then recheck the watermarks at order-0 to
3111 * prevent kswapd reclaiming excessively. Assume that a
3112 * process requested a high-order can direct reclaim/compact.
3114 if (order && sc.nr_reclaimed >= 2UL << order)
3115 order = sc.order = 0;
3117 /* Check if kswapd should be suspending */
3118 if (try_to_freeze() || kthread_should_stop())
3119 break;
3122 * Compact if necessary and kswapd is reclaiming at least the
3123 * high watermark number of pages as requsted
3125 if (pgdat_needs_compaction && sc.nr_reclaimed > nr_attempted)
3126 compact_pgdat(pgdat, order);
3129 * Raise priority if scanning rate is too low or there was no
3130 * progress in reclaiming pages
3132 if (raise_priority || !sc.nr_reclaimed)
3133 sc.priority--;
3134 } while (sc.priority >= 1 &&
3135 !pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx));
3137 out:
3139 * Return the order we were reclaiming at so prepare_kswapd_sleep()
3140 * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However,
3141 * if another caller entered the allocator slow path while kswapd
3142 * was awake, order will remain at the higher level
3144 *classzone_idx = end_zone;
3145 return order;
3148 static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
3150 long remaining = 0;
3151 DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
3153 if (freezing(current) || kthread_should_stop())
3154 return;
3156 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
3158 /* Try to sleep for a short interval */
3159 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
3160 remaining = schedule_timeout(HZ/10);
3161 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
3162 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
3166 * After a short sleep, check if it was a premature sleep. If not, then
3167 * go fully to sleep until explicitly woken up.
3169 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
3170 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
3173 * vmstat counters are not perfectly accurate and the estimated
3174 * value for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES can deviate from the
3175 * true value by nr_online_cpus * threshold. To avoid the zone
3176 * watermarks being breached while under pressure, we reduce the
3177 * per-cpu vmstat threshold while kswapd is awake and restore
3178 * them before going back to sleep.
3180 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold);
3183 * Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to
3184 * isolate pages from and skips them in the future scanning.
3185 * When kswapd is going to sleep, it is reasonable to assume
3186 * that pages and compaction may succeed so reset the cache.
3188 reset_isolation_suitable(pgdat);
3190 if (!kthread_should_stop())
3191 schedule();
3193 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold);
3194 } else {
3195 if (remaining)
3196 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
3197 else
3198 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
3200 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
3204 * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
3205 * from the init process.
3207 * This basically trickles out pages so that we have _some_
3208 * free memory available even if there is no other activity
3209 * that frees anything up. This is needed for things like routing
3210 * etc, where we otherwise might have all activity going on in
3211 * asynchronous contexts that cannot page things out.
3213 * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators
3214 * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter.
3216 static int kswapd(void *p)
3218 unsigned long order, new_order;
3219 unsigned balanced_order;
3220 int classzone_idx, new_classzone_idx;
3221 int balanced_classzone_idx;
3222 pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t*)p;
3223 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
3225 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
3226 .reclaimed_slab = 0,
3228 const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
3230 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL);
3232 if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
3233 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
3234 current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3237 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
3238 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
3239 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
3240 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
3242 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
3243 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
3244 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
3245 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
3246 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
3248 tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
3249 set_freezable();
3251 order = new_order = 0;
3252 balanced_order = 0;
3253 classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
3254 balanced_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
3255 for ( ; ; ) {
3256 bool ret;
3259 * If the last balance_pgdat was unsuccessful it's unlikely a
3260 * new request of a similar or harder type will succeed soon
3261 * so consider going to sleep on the basis we reclaimed at
3263 if (balanced_classzone_idx >= new_classzone_idx &&
3264 balanced_order == new_order) {
3265 new_order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
3266 new_classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
3267 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
3268 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
3271 if (order < new_order || classzone_idx > new_classzone_idx) {
3273 * Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
3274 * allocation or has tigher zone constraints
3276 order = new_order;
3277 classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx;
3278 } else {
3279 kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat, balanced_order,
3280 balanced_classzone_idx);
3281 order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
3282 classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
3283 new_order = order;
3284 new_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
3285 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
3286 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
3289 ret = try_to_freeze();
3290 if (kthread_should_stop())
3291 break;
3294 * We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call balance_pgdat
3295 * after returning from the refrigerator
3297 if (!ret) {
3298 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake(pgdat->node_id, order);
3299 balanced_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
3300 balanced_order = balance_pgdat(pgdat, order,
3301 &balanced_classzone_idx);
3305 current->reclaim_state = NULL;
3306 return 0;
3310 * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
3312 void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
3314 pg_data_t *pgdat;
3316 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3317 return;
3319 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
3320 return;
3321 pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
3322 if (pgdat->kswapd_max_order < order) {
3323 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = order;
3324 pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx, classzone_idx);
3326 if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
3327 return;
3328 if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0))
3329 return;
3331 trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
3332 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
3335 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
3337 * Try to free `nr_to_reclaim' of memory, system-wide, and return the number of
3338 * freed pages.
3340 * Rather than trying to age LRUs the aim is to preserve the overall
3341 * LRU order by reclaiming preferentially
3342 * inactive > active > active referenced > active mapped
3344 unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim)
3346 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
3347 struct scan_control sc = {
3348 .gfp_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
3349 .may_swap = 1,
3350 .may_unmap = 1,
3351 .may_writepage = 1,
3352 .nr_to_reclaim = nr_to_reclaim,
3353 .hibernation_mode = 1,
3354 .order = 0,
3355 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
3357 struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), sc.gfp_mask);
3358 struct task_struct *p = current;
3359 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
3361 p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
3362 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(sc.gfp_mask);
3363 reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
3364 p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3366 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
3368 p->reclaim_state = NULL;
3369 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3370 p->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
3372 return nr_reclaimed;
3374 #endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
3376 /* It's optimal to keep kswapds on the same CPUs as their memory, but
3377 not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
3378 away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
3379 restore their cpu bindings. */
3380 static int cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action,
3381 void *hcpu)
3383 int nid;
3385 if (action == CPU_ONLINE || action == CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN) {
3386 for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) {
3387 pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
3388 const struct cpumask *mask;
3390 mask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
3392 if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, mask) < nr_cpu_ids)
3393 /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
3394 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kswapd, mask);
3397 return NOTIFY_OK;
3401 * This kswapd start function will be called by init and node-hot-add.
3402 * On node-hot-add, kswapd will moved to proper cpus if cpus are hot-added.
3404 int kswapd_run(int nid)
3406 pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
3407 int ret = 0;
3409 if (pgdat->kswapd)
3410 return 0;
3412 pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
3413 if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
3414 /* failure at boot is fatal */
3415 BUG_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING);
3416 pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid);
3417 ret = PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd);
3418 pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
3420 return ret;
3424 * Called by memory hotplug when all memory in a node is offlined. Caller must
3425 * hold lock_memory_hotplug().
3427 void kswapd_stop(int nid)
3429 struct task_struct *kswapd = NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd;
3431 if (kswapd) {
3432 kthread_stop(kswapd);
3433 NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd = NULL;
3437 static int __init kswapd_init(void)
3439 int nid;
3441 swap_setup();
3442 for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
3443 kswapd_run(nid);
3444 hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);
3445 return 0;
3448 module_init(kswapd_init)
3450 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
3452 * Zone reclaim mode
3454 * If non-zero call zone_reclaim when the number of free pages falls below
3455 * the watermarks.
3457 int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
3459 #define RECLAIM_OFF 0
3460 #define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0) /* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
3461 #define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1) /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
3462 #define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2) /* Swap pages out during reclaim */
3465 * Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
3466 * of a node considered for each zone_reclaim. 4 scans 1/16th of
3467 * a zone.
3469 #define ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY 4
3472 * Percentage of pages in a zone that must be unmapped for zone_reclaim to
3473 * occur.
3475 int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio = 1;
3478 * If the number of slab pages in a zone grows beyond this percentage then
3479 * slab reclaim needs to occur.
3481 int sysctl_min_slab_ratio = 5;
3483 static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone *zone)
3485 unsigned long file_mapped = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED);
3486 unsigned long file_lru = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
3487 zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
3490 * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than
3491 * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because
3492 * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED
3494 return (file_lru > file_mapped) ? (file_lru - file_mapped) : 0;
3497 /* Work out how many page cache pages we can reclaim in this reclaim_mode */
3498 static long zone_pagecache_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
3500 long nr_pagecache_reclaimable;
3501 long delta = 0;
3504 * If RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then all file pages are considered
3505 * potentially reclaimable. Otherwise, we have to worry about
3506 * pages like swapcache and zone_unmapped_file_pages() provides
3507 * a better estimate
3509 if (zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP)
3510 nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES);
3511 else
3512 nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone);
3514 /* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */
3515 if (!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE))
3516 delta += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
3518 /* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */
3519 if (unlikely(delta > nr_pagecache_reclaimable))
3520 delta = nr_pagecache_reclaimable;
3522 return nr_pagecache_reclaimable - delta;
3526 * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
3528 static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
3530 /* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */
3531 const unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
3532 struct task_struct *p = current;
3533 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
3534 struct scan_control sc = {
3535 .may_writepage = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE),
3536 .may_unmap = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP),
3537 .may_swap = 1,
3538 .nr_to_reclaim = max(nr_pages, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
3539 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask)),
3540 .order = order,
3541 .priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY,
3543 struct shrink_control shrink = {
3544 .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
3546 unsigned long nr_slab_pages0, nr_slab_pages1;
3548 cond_resched();
3550 * We need to be able to allocate from the reserves for RECLAIM_SWAP
3551 * and we also need to be able to write out pages for RECLAIM_WRITE
3552 * and RECLAIM_SWAP.
3554 p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE;
3555 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask);
3556 reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
3557 p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3559 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) > zone->min_unmapped_pages) {
3561 * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing
3562 * priorities until we have enough memory freed.
3564 do {
3565 shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
3566 } while (sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages && --sc.priority >= 0);
3569 nr_slab_pages0 = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
3570 if (nr_slab_pages0 > zone->min_slab_pages) {
3572 * shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how
3573 * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current
3574 * number of slab pages and shake the slab until it is reduced
3575 * by the same nr_pages that we used for reclaiming unmapped
3576 * pages.
3578 nodes_clear(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
3579 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone), shrink.nodes_to_scan);
3580 for (;;) {
3581 unsigned long lru_pages = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
3583 /* No reclaimable slab or very low memory pressure */
3584 if (!shrink_slab(&shrink, sc.nr_scanned, lru_pages))
3585 break;
3587 /* Freed enough memory */
3588 nr_slab_pages1 = zone_page_state(zone,
3589 NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
3590 if (nr_slab_pages1 + nr_pages <= nr_slab_pages0)
3591 break;
3595 * Update nr_reclaimed by the number of slab pages we
3596 * reclaimed from this zone.
3598 nr_slab_pages1 = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
3599 if (nr_slab_pages1 < nr_slab_pages0)
3600 sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_slab_pages0 - nr_slab_pages1;
3603 p->reclaim_state = NULL;
3604 current->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE);
3605 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3606 return sc.nr_reclaimed >= nr_pages;
3609 int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
3611 int node_id;
3612 int ret;
3615 * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
3616 * slab pages if we are over the defined limits.
3618 * A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
3619 * file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
3620 * thrown out if the zone is overallocated. So we do not reclaim
3621 * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by
3622 * unmapped file backed pages.
3624 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages &&
3625 zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) <= zone->min_slab_pages)
3626 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL;
3628 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone))
3629 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL;
3632 * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
3634 if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
3635 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3638 * Only run zone reclaim on the local zone or on zones that do not
3639 * have associated processors. This will favor the local processor
3640 * over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations
3641 * as wide as possible.
3643 node_id = zone_to_nid(zone);
3644 if (node_state(node_id, N_CPU) && node_id != numa_node_id())
3645 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3647 if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED))
3648 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3650 ret = __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
3651 zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED);
3653 if (!ret)
3654 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED);
3656 return ret;
3658 #endif
3661 * page_evictable - test whether a page is evictable
3662 * @page: the page to test
3664 * Test whether page is evictable--i.e., should be placed on active/inactive
3665 * lists vs unevictable list.
3667 * Reasons page might not be evictable:
3668 * (1) page's mapping marked unevictable
3669 * (2) page is part of an mlocked VMA
3672 int page_evictable(struct page *page)
3674 return !mapping_unevictable(page_mapping(page)) && !PageMlocked(page);
3677 #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
3679 * check_move_unevictable_pages - check pages for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
3680 * @pages: array of pages to check
3681 * @nr_pages: number of pages to check
3683 * Checks pages for evictability and moves them to the appropriate lru list.
3685 * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
3687 void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page **pages, int nr_pages)
3689 struct lruvec *lruvec;
3690 struct zone *zone = NULL;
3691 int pgscanned = 0;
3692 int pgrescued = 0;
3693 int i;
3695 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
3696 struct page *page = pages[i];
3697 struct zone *pagezone;
3699 pgscanned++;
3700 pagezone = page_zone(page);
3701 if (pagezone != zone) {
3702 if (zone)
3703 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3704 zone = pagezone;
3705 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3707 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
3709 if (!PageLRU(page) || !PageUnevictable(page))
3710 continue;
3712 if (page_evictable(page)) {
3713 enum lru_list lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
3715 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
3716 ClearPageUnevictable(page);
3717 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, LRU_UNEVICTABLE);
3718 add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
3719 pgrescued++;
3723 if (zone) {
3724 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED, pgrescued);
3725 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pgscanned);
3726 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3729 #endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
3731 static void warn_scan_unevictable_pages(void)
3733 printk_once(KERN_WARNING
3734 "%s: The scan_unevictable_pages sysctl/node-interface has been "
3735 "disabled for lack of a legitimate use case. If you have "
3736 "one, please send an email to linux-mm@kvack.org.\n",
3737 current->comm);
3741 * scan_unevictable_pages [vm] sysctl handler. On demand re-scan of
3742 * all nodes' unevictable lists for evictable pages
3744 unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages;
3746 int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
3747 void __user *buffer,
3748 size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
3750 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3751 proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
3752 scan_unevictable_pages = 0;
3753 return 0;
3756 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
3758 * per node 'scan_unevictable_pages' attribute. On demand re-scan of
3759 * a specified node's per zone unevictable lists for evictable pages.
3762 static ssize_t read_scan_unevictable_node(struct device *dev,
3763 struct device_attribute *attr,
3764 char *buf)
3766 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3767 return sprintf(buf, "0\n"); /* always zero; should fit... */
3770 static ssize_t write_scan_unevictable_node(struct device *dev,
3771 struct device_attribute *attr,
3772 const char *buf, size_t count)
3774 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3775 return 1;
3779 static DEVICE_ATTR(scan_unevictable_pages, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
3780 read_scan_unevictable_node,
3781 write_scan_unevictable_node);
3783 int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node *node)
3785 return device_create_file(&node->dev, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages);
3788 void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node)
3790 device_remove_file(&node->dev, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages);
3792 #endif