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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 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
16 #include <linux/mm.h>
17 #include <linux/module.h>
18 #include <linux/gfp.h>
19 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
20 #include <linux/swap.h>
21 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
22 #include <linux/init.h>
23 #include <linux/highmem.h>
24 #include <linux/vmpressure.h>
25 #include <linux/vmstat.h>
26 #include <linux/file.h>
27 #include <linux/writeback.h>
28 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
29 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for try_to_release_page(),
30 buffer_heads_over_limit */
31 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
32 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
33 #include <linux/rmap.h>
34 #include <linux/topology.h>
35 #include <linux/cpu.h>
36 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
37 #include <linux/compaction.h>
38 #include <linux/notifier.h>
39 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
40 #include <linux/delay.h>
41 #include <linux/kthread.h>
42 #include <linux/freezer.h>
43 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
44 #include <linux/delayacct.h>
45 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
46 #include <linux/oom.h>
47 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
48 #include <linux/printk.h>
50 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
51 #include <asm/div64.h>
53 #include <linux/swapops.h>
54 #include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
56 #include "internal.h"
58 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
59 #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
61 struct scan_control {
62 /* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
63 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
65 /* This context's GFP mask */
66 gfp_t gfp_mask;
68 /* Allocation order */
69 int order;
72 * Nodemask of nodes allowed by the caller. If NULL, all nodes
73 * are scanned.
75 nodemask_t *nodemask;
78 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
79 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
81 struct mem_cgroup *target_mem_cgroup;
83 /* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
84 int priority;
86 unsigned int may_writepage:1;
88 /* Can mapped pages be reclaimed? */
89 unsigned int may_unmap:1;
91 /* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
92 unsigned int may_swap:1;
94 /* Can cgroups be reclaimed below their normal consumption range? */
95 unsigned int may_thrash:1;
97 unsigned int hibernation_mode:1;
99 /* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
100 unsigned int compaction_ready:1;
102 /* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
103 unsigned long nr_scanned;
105 /* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
106 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
109 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
111 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
112 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
113 do { \
114 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
115 struct page *prev; \
117 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
118 prefetch(&prev->_field); \
120 } while (0)
121 #else
122 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
123 #endif
125 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
126 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
127 do { \
128 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
129 struct page *prev; \
131 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
132 prefetchw(&prev->_field); \
134 } while (0)
135 #else
136 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
137 #endif
140 * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
142 int vm_swappiness = 60;
144 * The total number of pages which are beyond the high watermark within all
145 * zones.
147 unsigned long vm_total_pages;
149 static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
150 static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
152 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
153 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
155 return !sc->target_mem_cgroup;
157 #else
158 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
160 return true;
162 #endif
164 static unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
166 int nr;
168 nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
169 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
171 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
172 nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
173 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
175 return nr;
178 bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
180 return zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED) <
181 zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6;
184 static unsigned long get_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
186 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
187 return mem_cgroup_get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
189 return zone_page_state(lruvec_zone(lruvec), NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
193 * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm.
195 int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
197 size_t size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred);
200 * If we only have one possible node in the system anyway, save
201 * ourselves the trouble and disable NUMA aware behavior. This way we
202 * will save memory and some small loop time later.
204 if (nr_node_ids == 1)
205 shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE;
207 if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)
208 size *= nr_node_ids;
210 shrinker->nr_deferred = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
211 if (!shrinker->nr_deferred)
212 return -ENOMEM;
214 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
215 list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
216 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
217 return 0;
219 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
222 * Remove one
224 void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
226 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
227 list_del(&shrinker->list);
228 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
229 kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
231 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
233 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
235 static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
236 struct shrinker *shrinker,
237 unsigned long nr_scanned,
238 unsigned long nr_eligible)
240 unsigned long freed = 0;
241 unsigned long long delta;
242 long total_scan;
243 long freeable;
244 long nr;
245 long new_nr;
246 int nid = shrinkctl->nid;
247 long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
248 : SHRINK_BATCH;
250 freeable = shrinker->count_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
251 if (freeable == 0)
252 return 0;
255 * copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
256 * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
257 * don't also do this scanning work.
259 nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid], 0);
261 total_scan = nr;
262 delta = (4 * nr_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
263 delta *= freeable;
264 do_div(delta, nr_eligible + 1);
265 total_scan += delta;
266 if (total_scan < 0) {
267 pr_err("shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to delete nr=%ld\n",
268 shrinker->scan_objects, total_scan);
269 total_scan = freeable;
273 * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
274 * due to large numbers of GFP_NOFS allocations causing the
275 * shrinkers to return -1 all the time. This results in a large
276 * nr being built up so when a shrink that can do some work
277 * comes along it empties the entire cache due to nr >>>
278 * freeable. This is bad for sustaining a working set in
279 * memory.
281 * Hence only allow the shrinker to scan the entire cache when
282 * a large delta change is calculated directly.
284 if (delta < freeable / 4)
285 total_scan = min(total_scan, freeable / 2);
288 * Avoid risking looping forever due to too large nr value:
289 * never try to free more than twice the estimate number of
290 * freeable entries.
292 if (total_scan > freeable * 2)
293 total_scan = freeable * 2;
295 trace_mm_shrink_slab_start(shrinker, shrinkctl, nr,
296 nr_scanned, nr_eligible,
297 freeable, delta, total_scan);
300 * Normally, we should not scan less than batch_size objects in one
301 * pass to avoid too frequent shrinker calls, but if the slab has less
302 * than batch_size objects in total and we are really tight on memory,
303 * we will try to reclaim all available objects, otherwise we can end
304 * up failing allocations although there are plenty of reclaimable
305 * objects spread over several slabs with usage less than the
306 * batch_size.
308 * We detect the "tight on memory" situations by looking at the total
309 * number of objects we want to scan (total_scan). If it is greater
310 * than the total number of objects on slab (freeable), we must be
311 * scanning at high prio and therefore should try to reclaim as much as
312 * possible.
314 while (total_scan >= batch_size ||
315 total_scan >= freeable) {
316 unsigned long ret;
317 unsigned long nr_to_scan = min(batch_size, total_scan);
319 shrinkctl->nr_to_scan = nr_to_scan;
320 ret = shrinker->scan_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
321 if (ret == SHRINK_STOP)
322 break;
323 freed += ret;
325 count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan);
326 total_scan -= nr_to_scan;
328 cond_resched();
332 * move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a
333 * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
334 * scan, there is no need to do an update.
336 if (total_scan > 0)
337 new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan,
338 &shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]);
339 else
340 new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]);
342 trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker, nid, freed, nr, new_nr, total_scan);
343 return freed;
347 * shrink_slab - shrink slab caches
348 * @gfp_mask: allocation context
349 * @nid: node whose slab caches to target
350 * @memcg: memory cgroup whose slab caches to target
351 * @nr_scanned: pressure numerator
352 * @nr_eligible: pressure denominator
354 * Call the shrink functions to age shrinkable caches.
356 * @nid is passed along to shrinkers with SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE set,
357 * unaware shrinkers will receive a node id of 0 instead.
359 * @memcg specifies the memory cgroup to target. If it is not NULL,
360 * only shrinkers with SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE set will be called to scan
361 * objects from the memory cgroup specified. Otherwise all shrinkers
362 * are called, and memcg aware shrinkers are supposed to scan the
363 * global list then.
365 * @nr_scanned and @nr_eligible form a ratio that indicate how much of
366 * the available objects should be scanned. Page reclaim for example
367 * passes the number of pages scanned and the number of pages on the
368 * LRU lists that it considered on @nid, plus a bias in @nr_scanned
369 * when it encountered mapped pages. The ratio is further biased by
370 * the ->seeks setting of the shrink function, which indicates the
371 * cost to recreate an object relative to that of an LRU page.
373 * Returns the number of reclaimed slab objects.
375 static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
376 struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
377 unsigned long nr_scanned,
378 unsigned long nr_eligible)
380 struct shrinker *shrinker;
381 unsigned long freed = 0;
383 if (memcg && !memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg))
384 return 0;
386 if (nr_scanned == 0)
387 nr_scanned = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
389 if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem)) {
391 * If we would return 0, our callers would understand that we
392 * have nothing else to shrink and give up trying. By returning
393 * 1 we keep it going and assume we'll be able to shrink next
394 * time.
396 freed = 1;
397 goto out;
400 list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
401 struct shrink_control sc = {
402 .gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
403 .nid = nid,
404 .memcg = memcg,
407 if (memcg && !(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE))
408 continue;
410 if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE))
411 sc.nid = 0;
413 freed += do_shrink_slab(&sc, shrinker, nr_scanned, nr_eligible);
416 up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
417 out:
418 cond_resched();
419 return freed;
422 void drop_slab_node(int nid)
424 unsigned long freed;
426 do {
427 struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
429 freed = 0;
430 do {
431 freed += shrink_slab(GFP_KERNEL, nid, memcg,
432 1000, 1000);
433 } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
434 } while (freed > 10);
437 void drop_slab(void)
439 int nid;
441 for_each_online_node(nid)
442 drop_slab_node(nid);
445 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
448 * A freeable page cache page is referenced only by the caller
449 * that isolated the page, the page cache radix tree and
450 * optional buffer heads at page->private.
452 return page_count(page) - page_has_private(page) == 2;
455 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
456 struct scan_control *sc)
458 if (current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE)
459 return 1;
460 if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
461 return 1;
462 if (bdi == current->backing_dev_info)
463 return 1;
464 return 0;
468 * We detected a synchronous write error writing a page out. Probably
469 * -ENOSPC. We need to propagate that into the address_space for a subsequent
470 * fsync(), msync() or close().
472 * The tricky part is that after writepage we cannot touch the mapping: nothing
473 * prevents it from being freed up. But we have a ref on the page and once
474 * that page is locked, the mapping is pinned.
476 * We're allowed to run sleeping lock_page() here because we know the caller has
477 * __GFP_FS.
479 static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
480 struct page *page, int error)
482 lock_page(page);
483 if (page_mapping(page) == mapping)
484 mapping_set_error(mapping, error);
485 unlock_page(page);
488 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
489 typedef enum {
490 /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
491 PAGE_KEEP,
492 /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
493 PAGE_ACTIVATE,
494 /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
495 PAGE_SUCCESS,
496 /* page is clean and locked */
497 PAGE_CLEAN,
498 } pageout_t;
501 * pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
502 * Calls ->writepage().
504 static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
505 struct scan_control *sc)
508 * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
509 * will be non-blocking. To prevent this allocation from being
510 * stalled by pagecache activity. But note that there may be
511 * stalls if we need to run get_block(). We could test
512 * PagePrivate for that.
514 * If this process is currently in __generic_file_write_iter() against
515 * this page's queue, we can perform writeback even if that
516 * will block.
518 * If the page is swapcache, write it back even if that would
519 * block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
520 * swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
521 * congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
523 if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page))
524 return PAGE_KEEP;
525 if (!mapping) {
527 * Some data journaling orphaned pages can have
528 * page->mapping == NULL while being dirty with clean buffers.
530 if (page_has_private(page)) {
531 if (try_to_free_buffers(page)) {
532 ClearPageDirty(page);
533 pr_info("%s: orphaned page\n", __func__);
534 return PAGE_CLEAN;
537 return PAGE_KEEP;
539 if (mapping->a_ops->writepage == NULL)
540 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
541 if (!may_write_to_queue(inode_to_bdi(mapping->host), sc))
542 return PAGE_KEEP;
544 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
545 int res;
546 struct writeback_control wbc = {
547 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
548 .nr_to_write = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
549 .range_start = 0,
550 .range_end = LLONG_MAX,
551 .for_reclaim = 1,
554 SetPageReclaim(page);
555 res = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, &wbc);
556 if (res < 0)
557 handle_write_error(mapping, page, res);
558 if (res == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) {
559 ClearPageReclaim(page);
560 return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
563 if (!PageWriteback(page)) {
564 /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
565 ClearPageReclaim(page);
567 trace_mm_vmscan_writepage(page, trace_reclaim_flags(page));
568 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE);
569 return PAGE_SUCCESS;
572 return PAGE_CLEAN;
576 * Same as remove_mapping, but if the page is removed from the mapping, it
577 * gets returned with a refcount of 0.
579 static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page,
580 bool reclaimed)
582 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
583 BUG_ON(mapping != page_mapping(page));
585 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
587 * The non racy check for a busy page.
589 * Must be careful with the order of the tests. When someone has
590 * a ref to the page, it may be possible that they dirty it then
591 * drop the reference. So if PageDirty is tested before page_count
592 * here, then the following race may occur:
594 * get_user_pages(&page);
595 * [user mapping goes away]
596 * write_to(page);
597 * !PageDirty(page) [good]
598 * SetPageDirty(page);
599 * put_page(page);
600 * !page_count(page) [good, discard it]
602 * [oops, our write_to data is lost]
604 * Reversing the order of the tests ensures such a situation cannot
605 * escape unnoticed. The smp_rmb is needed to ensure the page->flags
606 * load is not satisfied before that of page->_count.
608 * Note that if SetPageDirty is always performed via set_page_dirty,
609 * and thus under tree_lock, then this ordering is not required.
611 if (!page_freeze_refs(page, 2))
612 goto cannot_free;
613 /* note: atomic_cmpxchg in page_freeze_refs provides the smp_rmb */
614 if (unlikely(PageDirty(page))) {
615 page_unfreeze_refs(page, 2);
616 goto cannot_free;
619 if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
620 swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
621 mem_cgroup_swapout(page, swap);
622 __delete_from_swap_cache(page);
623 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
624 swapcache_free(swap);
625 } else {
626 void (*freepage)(struct page *);
627 void *shadow = NULL;
629 freepage = mapping->a_ops->freepage;
631 * Remember a shadow entry for reclaimed file cache in
632 * order to detect refaults, thus thrashing, later on.
634 * But don't store shadows in an address space that is
635 * already exiting. This is not just an optizimation,
636 * inode reclaim needs to empty out the radix tree or
637 * the nodes are lost. Don't plant shadows behind its
638 * back.
640 if (reclaimed && page_is_file_cache(page) &&
641 !mapping_exiting(mapping))
642 shadow = workingset_eviction(mapping, page);
643 __delete_from_page_cache(page, shadow);
644 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
646 if (freepage != NULL)
647 freepage(page);
650 return 1;
652 cannot_free:
653 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
654 return 0;
658 * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if
659 * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was
660 * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on
661 * this page.
663 int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
665 if (__remove_mapping(mapping, page, false)) {
667 * Unfreezing the refcount with 1 rather than 2 effectively
668 * drops the pagecache ref for us without requiring another
669 * atomic operation.
671 page_unfreeze_refs(page, 1);
672 return 1;
674 return 0;
678 * putback_lru_page - put previously isolated page onto appropriate LRU list
679 * @page: page to be put back to appropriate lru list
681 * Add previously isolated @page to appropriate LRU list.
682 * Page may still be unevictable for other reasons.
684 * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
686 void putback_lru_page(struct page *page)
688 bool is_unevictable;
689 int was_unevictable = PageUnevictable(page);
691 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
693 redo:
694 ClearPageUnevictable(page);
696 if (page_evictable(page)) {
698 * For evictable pages, we can use the cache.
699 * In event of a race, worst case is we end up with an
700 * unevictable page on [in]active list.
701 * We know how to handle that.
703 is_unevictable = false;
704 lru_cache_add(page);
705 } else {
707 * Put unevictable pages directly on zone's unevictable
708 * list.
710 is_unevictable = true;
711 add_page_to_unevictable_list(page);
713 * When racing with an mlock or AS_UNEVICTABLE clearing
714 * (page is unlocked) make sure that if the other thread
715 * does not observe our setting of PG_lru and fails
716 * isolation/check_move_unevictable_pages,
717 * we see PG_mlocked/AS_UNEVICTABLE cleared below and move
718 * the page back to the evictable list.
720 * The other side is TestClearPageMlocked() or shmem_lock().
722 smp_mb();
726 * page's status can change while we move it among lru. If an evictable
727 * page is on unevictable list, it never be freed. To avoid that,
728 * check after we added it to the list, again.
730 if (is_unevictable && page_evictable(page)) {
731 if (!isolate_lru_page(page)) {
732 put_page(page);
733 goto redo;
735 /* This means someone else dropped this page from LRU
736 * So, it will be freed or putback to LRU again. There is
737 * nothing to do here.
741 if (was_unevictable && !is_unevictable)
742 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED);
743 else if (!was_unevictable && is_unevictable)
744 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGCULLED);
746 put_page(page); /* drop ref from isolate */
749 enum page_references {
750 PAGEREF_RECLAIM,
751 PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN,
752 PAGEREF_KEEP,
753 PAGEREF_ACTIVATE,
756 static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page,
757 struct scan_control *sc)
759 int referenced_ptes, referenced_page;
760 unsigned long vm_flags;
762 referenced_ptes = page_referenced(page, 1, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
763 &vm_flags);
764 referenced_page = TestClearPageReferenced(page);
767 * Mlock lost the isolation race with us. Let try_to_unmap()
768 * move the page to the unevictable list.
770 if (vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
771 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
773 if (referenced_ptes) {
774 if (PageSwapBacked(page))
775 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
777 * All mapped pages start out with page table
778 * references from the instantiating fault, so we need
779 * to look twice if a mapped file page is used more
780 * than once.
782 * Mark it and spare it for another trip around the
783 * inactive list. Another page table reference will
784 * lead to its activation.
786 * Note: the mark is set for activated pages as well
787 * so that recently deactivated but used pages are
788 * quickly recovered.
790 SetPageReferenced(page);
792 if (referenced_page || referenced_ptes > 1)
793 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
796 * Activate file-backed executable pages after first usage.
798 if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC)
799 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
801 return PAGEREF_KEEP;
804 /* Reclaim if clean, defer dirty pages to writeback */
805 if (referenced_page && !PageSwapBacked(page))
806 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN;
808 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
811 /* Check if a page is dirty or under writeback */
812 static void page_check_dirty_writeback(struct page *page,
813 bool *dirty, bool *writeback)
815 struct address_space *mapping;
818 * Anonymous pages are not handled by flushers and must be written
819 * from reclaim context. Do not stall reclaim based on them
821 if (!page_is_file_cache(page)) {
822 *dirty = false;
823 *writeback = false;
824 return;
827 /* By default assume that the page flags are accurate */
828 *dirty = PageDirty(page);
829 *writeback = PageWriteback(page);
831 /* Verify dirty/writeback state if the filesystem supports it */
832 if (!page_has_private(page))
833 return;
835 mapping = page_mapping(page);
836 if (mapping && mapping->a_ops->is_dirty_writeback)
837 mapping->a_ops->is_dirty_writeback(page, dirty, writeback);
841 * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
843 static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
844 struct zone *zone,
845 struct scan_control *sc,
846 enum ttu_flags ttu_flags,
847 unsigned long *ret_nr_dirty,
848 unsigned long *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty,
849 unsigned long *ret_nr_congested,
850 unsigned long *ret_nr_writeback,
851 unsigned long *ret_nr_immediate,
852 bool force_reclaim)
854 LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
855 LIST_HEAD(free_pages);
856 int pgactivate = 0;
857 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty = 0;
858 unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
859 unsigned long nr_congested = 0;
860 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
861 unsigned long nr_writeback = 0;
862 unsigned long nr_immediate = 0;
864 cond_resched();
866 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
867 struct address_space *mapping;
868 struct page *page;
869 int may_enter_fs;
870 enum page_references references = PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN;
871 bool dirty, writeback;
873 cond_resched();
875 page = lru_to_page(page_list);
876 list_del(&page->lru);
878 if (!trylock_page(page))
879 goto keep;
881 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
882 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_zone(page) != zone, page);
884 sc->nr_scanned++;
886 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page)))
887 goto cull_mlocked;
889 if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
890 goto keep_locked;
892 /* Double the slab pressure for mapped and swapcache pages */
893 if (page_mapped(page) || PageSwapCache(page))
894 sc->nr_scanned++;
896 may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
897 (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
900 * The number of dirty pages determines if a zone is marked
901 * reclaim_congested which affects wait_iff_congested. kswapd
902 * will stall and start writing pages if the tail of the LRU
903 * is all dirty unqueued pages.
905 page_check_dirty_writeback(page, &dirty, &writeback);
906 if (dirty || writeback)
907 nr_dirty++;
909 if (dirty && !writeback)
910 nr_unqueued_dirty++;
913 * Treat this page as congested if the underlying BDI is or if
914 * pages are cycling through the LRU so quickly that the
915 * pages marked for immediate reclaim are making it to the
916 * end of the LRU a second time.
918 mapping = page_mapping(page);
919 if (((dirty || writeback) && mapping &&
920 bdi_write_congested(inode_to_bdi(mapping->host))) ||
921 (writeback && PageReclaim(page)))
922 nr_congested++;
925 * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there
926 * are three cases to consider.
928 * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages
929 * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and
930 * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued
931 * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the
932 * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an
933 * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the
934 * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead
935 * note that the LRU is being scanned too quickly and the
936 * caller can stall after page list has been processed.
938 * 2) Global reclaim encounters a page, memcg encounters a
939 * page that is not marked for immediate reclaim or
940 * the caller does not have __GFP_IO. In this case mark
941 * the page for immediate reclaim and continue scanning.
943 * __GFP_IO is checked because a loop driver thread might
944 * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for
945 * which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off
946 * __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought
947 * would probably show more reasons.
949 * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into the
950 * FS, just waiting on its writeback completion. Worryingly,
951 * ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with
952 * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so testing
953 * may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them.
955 * 3) memcg encounters a page that is not already marked
956 * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages
957 * throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many
958 * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to
959 * reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete.
961 if (PageWriteback(page)) {
962 /* Case 1 above */
963 if (current_is_kswapd() &&
964 PageReclaim(page) &&
965 test_bit(ZONE_WRITEBACK, &zone->flags)) {
966 nr_immediate++;
967 goto keep_locked;
969 /* Case 2 above */
970 } else if (global_reclaim(sc) ||
971 !PageReclaim(page) || !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) {
973 * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
974 * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then
975 * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted
976 * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter
977 * enough to care. What we do want is for this
978 * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg
979 * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will
980 * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM;
981 * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim.
983 SetPageReclaim(page);
984 nr_writeback++;
986 goto keep_locked;
988 /* Case 3 above */
989 } else {
990 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
994 if (!force_reclaim)
995 references = page_check_references(page, sc);
997 switch (references) {
998 case PAGEREF_ACTIVATE:
999 goto activate_locked;
1000 case PAGEREF_KEEP:
1001 goto keep_locked;
1002 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM:
1003 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN:
1004 ; /* try to reclaim the page below */
1008 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
1009 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
1011 if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
1012 if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
1013 goto keep_locked;
1014 if (!add_to_swap(page, page_list))
1015 goto activate_locked;
1016 may_enter_fs = 1;
1018 /* Adding to swap updated mapping */
1019 mapping = page_mapping(page);
1023 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
1024 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
1026 if (page_mapped(page) && mapping) {
1027 switch (try_to_unmap(page, ttu_flags)) {
1028 case SWAP_FAIL:
1029 goto activate_locked;
1030 case SWAP_AGAIN:
1031 goto keep_locked;
1032 case SWAP_MLOCK:
1033 goto cull_mlocked;
1034 case SWAP_SUCCESS:
1035 ; /* try to free the page below */
1039 if (PageDirty(page)) {
1041 * Only kswapd can writeback filesystem pages to
1042 * avoid risk of stack overflow but only writeback
1043 * if many dirty pages have been encountered.
1045 if (page_is_file_cache(page) &&
1046 (!current_is_kswapd() ||
1047 !test_bit(ZONE_DIRTY, &zone->flags))) {
1049 * Immediately reclaim when written back.
1050 * Similar in principal to deactivate_page()
1051 * except we already have the page isolated
1052 * and know it's dirty
1054 inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE);
1055 SetPageReclaim(page);
1057 goto keep_locked;
1060 if (references == PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN)
1061 goto keep_locked;
1062 if (!may_enter_fs)
1063 goto keep_locked;
1064 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1065 goto keep_locked;
1067 /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
1068 switch (pageout(page, mapping, sc)) {
1069 case PAGE_KEEP:
1070 goto keep_locked;
1071 case PAGE_ACTIVATE:
1072 goto activate_locked;
1073 case PAGE_SUCCESS:
1074 if (PageWriteback(page))
1075 goto keep;
1076 if (PageDirty(page))
1077 goto keep;
1080 * A synchronous write - probably a ramdisk. Go
1081 * ahead and try to reclaim the page.
1083 if (!trylock_page(page))
1084 goto keep;
1085 if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
1086 goto keep_locked;
1087 mapping = page_mapping(page);
1088 case PAGE_CLEAN:
1089 ; /* try to free the page below */
1094 * If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
1095 * associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
1096 * the page as well.
1098 * We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
1099 * try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
1100 * possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
1101 * clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
1102 * buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
1103 * will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
1104 * try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
1105 * drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
1107 * Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
1108 * the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
1109 * truncate_complete_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
1110 * and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
1111 * process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
1112 * Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
1114 if (page_has_private(page)) {
1115 if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
1116 goto activate_locked;
1117 if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1) {
1118 unlock_page(page);
1119 if (put_page_testzero(page))
1120 goto free_it;
1121 else {
1123 * rare race with speculative reference.
1124 * the speculative reference will free
1125 * this page shortly, so we may
1126 * increment nr_reclaimed here (and
1127 * leave it off the LRU).
1129 nr_reclaimed++;
1130 continue;
1135 if (!mapping || !__remove_mapping(mapping, page, true))
1136 goto keep_locked;
1139 * At this point, we have no other references and there is
1140 * no way to pick any more up (removed from LRU, removed
1141 * from pagecache). Can use non-atomic bitops now (and
1142 * we obviously don't have to worry about waking up a process
1143 * waiting on the page lock, because there are no references.
1145 __clear_page_locked(page);
1146 free_it:
1147 nr_reclaimed++;
1150 * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would
1151 * appear not as the counts should be low
1153 list_add(&page->lru, &free_pages);
1154 continue;
1156 cull_mlocked:
1157 if (PageSwapCache(page))
1158 try_to_free_swap(page);
1159 unlock_page(page);
1160 putback_lru_page(page);
1161 continue;
1163 activate_locked:
1164 /* Not a candidate for swapping, so reclaim swap space. */
1165 if (PageSwapCache(page) && vm_swap_full())
1166 try_to_free_swap(page);
1167 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
1168 SetPageActive(page);
1169 pgactivate++;
1170 keep_locked:
1171 unlock_page(page);
1172 keep:
1173 list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
1174 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page), page);
1177 mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(&free_pages);
1178 free_hot_cold_page_list(&free_pages, true);
1180 list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
1181 count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate);
1183 *ret_nr_dirty += nr_dirty;
1184 *ret_nr_congested += nr_congested;
1185 *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty += nr_unqueued_dirty;
1186 *ret_nr_writeback += nr_writeback;
1187 *ret_nr_immediate += nr_immediate;
1188 return nr_reclaimed;
1191 unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
1192 struct list_head *page_list)
1194 struct scan_control sc = {
1195 .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
1196 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
1197 .may_unmap = 1,
1199 unsigned long ret, dummy1, dummy2, dummy3, dummy4, dummy5;
1200 struct page *page, *next;
1201 LIST_HEAD(clean_pages);
1203 list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, page_list, lru) {
1204 if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page) &&
1205 !isolated_balloon_page(page)) {
1206 ClearPageActive(page);
1207 list_move(&page->lru, &clean_pages);
1211 ret = shrink_page_list(&clean_pages, zone, &sc,
1212 TTU_UNMAP|TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS,
1213 &dummy1, &dummy2, &dummy3, &dummy4, &dummy5, true);
1214 list_splice(&clean_pages, page_list);
1215 mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, -ret);
1216 return ret;
1220 * Attempt to remove the specified page from its LRU. Only take this page
1221 * if it is of the appropriate PageActive status. Pages which are being
1222 * freed elsewhere are also ignored.
1224 * page: page to consider
1225 * mode: one of the LRU isolation modes defined above
1227 * returns 0 on success, -ve errno on failure.
1229 int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
1231 int ret = -EINVAL;
1233 /* Only take pages on the LRU. */
1234 if (!PageLRU(page))
1235 return ret;
1237 /* Compaction should not handle unevictable pages but CMA can do so */
1238 if (PageUnevictable(page) && !(mode & ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE))
1239 return ret;
1241 ret = -EBUSY;
1244 * To minimise LRU disruption, the caller can indicate that it only
1245 * wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
1246 * blocking - clean pages for the most part.
1248 * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
1249 * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
1251 * ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
1252 * that it is possible to migrate without blocking
1254 if (mode & (ISOLATE_CLEAN|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE)) {
1255 /* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
1256 if (PageWriteback(page))
1257 return ret;
1259 if (PageDirty(page)) {
1260 struct address_space *mapping;
1262 /* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
1263 if (mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN)
1264 return ret;
1267 * Only pages without mappings or that have a
1268 * ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
1269 * without blocking
1271 mapping = page_mapping(page);
1272 if (mapping && !mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
1273 return ret;
1277 if ((mode & ISOLATE_UNMAPPED) && page_mapped(page))
1278 return ret;
1280 if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
1282 * Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
1283 * sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
1284 * page release code relies on it.
1286 ClearPageLRU(page);
1287 ret = 0;
1290 return ret;
1294 * zone->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that
1295 * shrink the lists perform better by taking out a batch of pages
1296 * and working on them outside the LRU lock.
1298 * For pagecache intensive workloads, this function is the hottest
1299 * spot in the kernel (apart from copy_*_user functions).
1301 * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function.
1303 * @nr_to_scan: The number of pages to look through on the list.
1304 * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from.
1305 * @dst: The temp list to put pages on to.
1306 * @nr_scanned: The number of pages that were scanned.
1307 * @sc: The scan_control struct for this reclaim session
1308 * @mode: One of the LRU isolation modes
1309 * @lru: LRU list id for isolating
1311 * returns how many pages were moved onto *@dst.
1313 static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1314 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *dst,
1315 unsigned long *nr_scanned, struct scan_control *sc,
1316 isolate_mode_t mode, enum lru_list lru)
1318 struct list_head *src = &lruvec->lists[lru];
1319 unsigned long nr_taken = 0;
1320 unsigned long scan;
1322 for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++) {
1323 struct page *page;
1324 int nr_pages;
1326 page = lru_to_page(src);
1327 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, src, flags);
1329 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLRU(page), page);
1331 switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) {
1332 case 0:
1333 nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1334 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, -nr_pages);
1335 list_move(&page->lru, dst);
1336 nr_taken += nr_pages;
1337 break;
1339 case -EBUSY:
1340 /* else it is being freed elsewhere */
1341 list_move(&page->lru, src);
1342 continue;
1344 default:
1345 BUG();
1349 *nr_scanned = scan;
1350 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc->order, nr_to_scan, scan,
1351 nr_taken, mode, is_file_lru(lru));
1352 return nr_taken;
1356 * isolate_lru_page - tries to isolate a page from its LRU list
1357 * @page: page to isolate from its LRU list
1359 * Isolates a @page from an LRU list, clears PageLRU and adjusts the
1360 * vmstat statistic corresponding to whatever LRU list the page was on.
1362 * Returns 0 if the page was removed from an LRU list.
1363 * Returns -EBUSY if the page was not on an LRU list.
1365 * The returned page will have PageLRU() cleared. If it was found on
1366 * the active list, it will have PageActive set. If it was found on
1367 * the unevictable list, it will have the PageUnevictable bit set. That flag
1368 * may need to be cleared by the caller before letting the page go.
1370 * The vmstat statistic corresponding to the list on which the page was
1371 * found will be decremented.
1373 * Restrictions:
1374 * (1) Must be called with an elevated refcount on the page. This is a
1375 * fundamentnal difference from isolate_lru_pages (which is called
1376 * without a stable reference).
1377 * (2) the lru_lock must not be held.
1378 * (3) interrupts must be enabled.
1380 int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
1382 int ret = -EBUSY;
1384 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
1386 if (PageLRU(page)) {
1387 struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
1388 struct lruvec *lruvec;
1390 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1391 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1392 if (PageLRU(page)) {
1393 int lru = page_lru(page);
1394 get_page(page);
1395 ClearPageLRU(page);
1396 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1397 ret = 0;
1399 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1401 return ret;
1405 * A direct reclaimer may isolate SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages from the LRU list and
1406 * then get resheduled. When there are massive number of tasks doing page
1407 * allocation, such sleeping direct reclaimers may keep piling up on each CPU,
1408 * the LRU list will go small and be scanned faster than necessary, leading to
1409 * unnecessary swapping, thrashing and OOM.
1411 static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
1412 struct scan_control *sc)
1414 unsigned long inactive, isolated;
1416 if (current_is_kswapd())
1417 return 0;
1419 if (!global_reclaim(sc))
1420 return 0;
1422 if (file) {
1423 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
1424 isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
1425 } else {
1426 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
1427 isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
1431 * GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers are allowed to isolate more pages, so they
1432 * won't get blocked by normal direct-reclaimers, forming a circular
1433 * deadlock.
1435 if ((sc->gfp_mask & GFP_IOFS) == GFP_IOFS)
1436 inactive >>= 3;
1438 return isolated > inactive;
1441 static noinline_for_stack void
1442 putback_inactive_pages(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *page_list)
1444 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1445 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1446 LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free);
1449 * Put back any unfreeable pages.
1451 while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
1452 struct page *page = lru_to_page(page_list);
1453 int lru;
1455 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
1456 list_del(&page->lru);
1457 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
1458 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1459 putback_lru_page(page);
1460 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1461 continue;
1464 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1466 SetPageLRU(page);
1467 lru = page_lru(page);
1468 add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1470 if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
1471 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1472 int numpages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1473 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += numpages;
1475 if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
1476 __ClearPageLRU(page);
1477 __ClearPageActive(page);
1478 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1480 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
1481 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1482 mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);
1483 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page))(page);
1484 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1485 } else
1486 list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
1491 * To save our caller's stack, now use input list for pages to free.
1493 list_splice(&pages_to_free, page_list);
1497 * If a kernel thread (such as nfsd for loop-back mounts) services
1498 * a backing device by writing to the page cache it sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE.
1499 * In that case we should only throttle if the backing device it is
1500 * writing to is congested. In other cases it is safe to throttle.
1502 static int current_may_throttle(void)
1504 return !(current->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE) ||
1505 current->backing_dev_info == NULL ||
1506 bdi_write_congested(current->backing_dev_info);
1510 * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone(). It returns the number
1511 * of reclaimed pages
1513 static noinline_for_stack unsigned long
1514 shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
1515 struct scan_control *sc, enum lru_list lru)
1517 LIST_HEAD(page_list);
1518 unsigned long nr_scanned;
1519 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
1520 unsigned long nr_taken;
1521 unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
1522 unsigned long nr_congested = 0;
1523 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty = 0;
1524 unsigned long nr_writeback = 0;
1525 unsigned long nr_immediate = 0;
1526 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = 0;
1527 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1528 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1529 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1531 while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(zone, file, sc))) {
1532 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1534 /* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
1535 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
1536 return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
1539 lru_add_drain();
1541 if (!sc->may_unmap)
1542 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
1543 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1544 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
1546 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1548 nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &page_list,
1549 &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru);
1551 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_taken);
1552 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
1554 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1555 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, nr_scanned);
1556 if (current_is_kswapd())
1557 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scanned);
1558 else
1559 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone, nr_scanned);
1561 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1563 if (nr_taken == 0)
1564 return 0;
1566 nr_reclaimed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, zone, sc, TTU_UNMAP,
1567 &nr_dirty, &nr_unqueued_dirty, &nr_congested,
1568 &nr_writeback, &nr_immediate,
1569 false);
1571 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1573 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
1575 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1576 if (current_is_kswapd())
1577 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_KSWAPD, zone,
1578 nr_reclaimed);
1579 else
1580 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_DIRECT, zone,
1581 nr_reclaimed);
1584 putback_inactive_pages(lruvec, &page_list);
1586 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
1588 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1590 mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(&page_list);
1591 free_hot_cold_page_list(&page_list, true);
1594 * If reclaim is isolating dirty pages under writeback, it implies
1595 * that the long-lived page allocation rate is exceeding the page
1596 * laundering rate. Either the global limits are not being effective
1597 * at throttling processes due to the page distribution throughout
1598 * zones or there is heavy usage of a slow backing device. The
1599 * only option is to throttle from reclaim context which is not ideal
1600 * as there is no guarantee the dirtying process is throttled in the
1601 * same way balance_dirty_pages() manages.
1603 * Once a zone is flagged ZONE_WRITEBACK, kswapd will count the number
1604 * of pages under pages flagged for immediate reclaim and stall if any
1605 * are encountered in the nr_immediate check below.
1607 if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback == nr_taken)
1608 set_bit(ZONE_WRITEBACK, &zone->flags);
1611 * memcg will stall in page writeback so only consider forcibly
1612 * stalling for global reclaim
1614 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1616 * Tag a zone as congested if all the dirty pages scanned were
1617 * backed by a congested BDI and wait_iff_congested will stall.
1619 if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested)
1620 set_bit(ZONE_CONGESTED, &zone->flags);
1623 * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
1624 * implies that flushers are not keeping up. In this case, flag
1625 * the zone ZONE_DIRTY and kswapd will start writing pages from
1626 * reclaim context.
1628 if (nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
1629 set_bit(ZONE_DIRTY, &zone->flags);
1632 * If kswapd scans pages marked marked for immediate
1633 * reclaim and under writeback (nr_immediate), it implies
1634 * that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
1635 * they are written so also forcibly stall.
1637 if (nr_immediate && current_may_throttle())
1638 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1642 * Stall direct reclaim for IO completions if underlying BDIs or zone
1643 * is congested. Allow kswapd to continue until it starts encountering
1644 * unqueued dirty pages or cycling through the LRU too quickly.
1646 if (!sc->hibernation_mode && !current_is_kswapd() &&
1647 current_may_throttle())
1648 wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
1650 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive(zone->zone_pgdat->node_id,
1651 zone_idx(zone),
1652 nr_scanned, nr_reclaimed,
1653 sc->priority,
1654 trace_shrink_flags(file));
1655 return nr_reclaimed;
1659 * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
1661 * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
1662 * processes, from rmap.
1664 * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is
1665 * appropriate to hold zone->lru_lock across the whole operation. But if
1666 * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we
1667 * should drop zone->lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance
1668 * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them.
1669 * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because
1670 * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page.
1672 * The downside is that we have to touch page->_count against each page.
1673 * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
1676 static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
1677 struct list_head *list,
1678 struct list_head *pages_to_free,
1679 enum lru_list lru)
1681 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1682 unsigned long pgmoved = 0;
1683 struct page *page;
1684 int nr_pages;
1686 while (!list_empty(list)) {
1687 page = lru_to_page(list);
1688 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
1690 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
1691 SetPageLRU(page);
1693 nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
1694 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, nr_pages);
1695 list_move(&page->lru, &lruvec->lists[lru]);
1696 pgmoved += nr_pages;
1698 if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
1699 __ClearPageLRU(page);
1700 __ClearPageActive(page);
1701 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
1703 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
1704 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1705 mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);
1706 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page))(page);
1707 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1708 } else
1709 list_add(&page->lru, pages_to_free);
1712 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, pgmoved);
1713 if (!is_active_lru(lru))
1714 __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, pgmoved);
1717 static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1718 struct lruvec *lruvec,
1719 struct scan_control *sc,
1720 enum lru_list lru)
1722 unsigned long nr_taken;
1723 unsigned long nr_scanned;
1724 unsigned long vm_flags;
1725 LIST_HEAD(l_hold); /* The pages which were snipped off */
1726 LIST_HEAD(l_active);
1727 LIST_HEAD(l_inactive);
1728 struct page *page;
1729 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1730 unsigned long nr_rotated = 0;
1731 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = 0;
1732 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
1733 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1735 lru_add_drain();
1737 if (!sc->may_unmap)
1738 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
1739 if (!sc->may_writepage)
1740 isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
1742 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1744 nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &l_hold,
1745 &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru);
1746 if (global_reclaim(sc))
1747 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, nr_scanned);
1749 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken;
1751 __count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL, zone, nr_scanned);
1752 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_taken);
1753 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken);
1754 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1756 while (!list_empty(&l_hold)) {
1757 cond_resched();
1758 page = lru_to_page(&l_hold);
1759 list_del(&page->lru);
1761 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
1762 putback_lru_page(page);
1763 continue;
1766 if (unlikely(buffer_heads_over_limit)) {
1767 if (page_has_private(page) && trylock_page(page)) {
1768 if (page_has_private(page))
1769 try_to_release_page(page, 0);
1770 unlock_page(page);
1774 if (page_referenced(page, 0, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
1775 &vm_flags)) {
1776 nr_rotated += hpage_nr_pages(page);
1778 * Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
1779 * give them one more trip around the active list. So
1780 * that executable code get better chances to stay in
1781 * memory under moderate memory pressure. Anon pages
1782 * are not likely to be evicted by use-once streaming
1783 * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages,
1784 * so we ignore them here.
1786 if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && page_is_file_cache(page)) {
1787 list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
1788 continue;
1792 ClearPageActive(page); /* we are de-activating */
1793 list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
1797 * Move pages back to the lru list.
1799 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1801 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as rotated,
1802 * even though only some of them are actually re-activated. This
1803 * helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous pages in
1804 * get_scan_count.
1806 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += nr_rotated;
1808 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_active, &l_hold, lru);
1809 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec, &l_inactive, &l_hold, lru - LRU_ACTIVE);
1810 __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
1811 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
1813 mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(&l_hold);
1814 free_hot_cold_page_list(&l_hold, true);
1817 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
1818 static int inactive_anon_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
1820 unsigned long active, inactive;
1822 active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON);
1823 inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
1825 if (inactive * zone->inactive_ratio < active)
1826 return 1;
1828 return 0;
1832 * inactive_anon_is_low - check if anonymous pages need to be deactivated
1833 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1835 * Returns true if the zone does not have enough inactive anon pages,
1836 * meaning some active anon pages need to be deactivated.
1838 static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1841 * If we don't have swap space, anonymous page deactivation
1842 * is pointless.
1844 if (!total_swap_pages)
1845 return 0;
1847 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
1848 return mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec);
1850 return inactive_anon_is_low_global(lruvec_zone(lruvec));
1852 #else
1853 static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1855 return 0;
1857 #endif
1860 * inactive_file_is_low - check if file pages need to be deactivated
1861 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1863 * When the system is doing streaming IO, memory pressure here
1864 * ensures that active file pages get deactivated, until more
1865 * than half of the file pages are on the inactive list.
1867 * Once we get to that situation, protect the system's working
1868 * set from being evicted by disabling active file page aging.
1870 * This uses a different ratio than the anonymous pages, because
1871 * the page cache uses a use-once replacement algorithm.
1873 static int inactive_file_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec)
1875 unsigned long inactive;
1876 unsigned long active;
1878 inactive = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
1879 active = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
1881 return active > inactive;
1884 static int inactive_list_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
1886 if (is_file_lru(lru))
1887 return inactive_file_is_low(lruvec);
1888 else
1889 return inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec);
1892 static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
1893 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
1895 if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
1896 if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, lru))
1897 shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
1898 return 0;
1901 return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
1904 enum scan_balance {
1905 SCAN_EQUAL,
1906 SCAN_FRACT,
1907 SCAN_ANON,
1908 SCAN_FILE,
1912 * Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
1913 * scanned. The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
1914 * by looking at the fraction of the pages scanned we did rotate back
1915 * onto the active list instead of evict.
1917 * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
1918 * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
1920 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
1921 struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long *nr,
1922 unsigned long *lru_pages)
1924 struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
1925 u64 fraction[2];
1926 u64 denominator = 0; /* gcc */
1927 struct zone *zone = lruvec_zone(lruvec);
1928 unsigned long anon_prio, file_prio;
1929 enum scan_balance scan_balance;
1930 unsigned long anon, file;
1931 bool force_scan = false;
1932 unsigned long ap, fp;
1933 enum lru_list lru;
1934 bool some_scanned;
1935 int pass;
1938 * If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0. This
1939 * results in no scanning on this priority and a potential
1940 * priority drop. Global direct reclaim can go to the next
1941 * zone and tends to have no problems. Global kswapd is for
1942 * zone balancing and it needs to scan a minimum amount. When
1943 * reclaiming for a memcg, a priority drop can cause high
1944 * latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
1945 * well.
1947 if (current_is_kswapd()) {
1948 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone))
1949 force_scan = true;
1950 if (!mem_cgroup_lruvec_online(lruvec))
1951 force_scan = true;
1953 if (!global_reclaim(sc))
1954 force_scan = true;
1956 /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
1957 if (!sc->may_swap || (get_nr_swap_pages() <= 0)) {
1958 scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
1959 goto out;
1963 * Global reclaim will swap to prevent OOM even with no
1964 * swappiness, but memcg users want to use this knob to
1965 * disable swapping for individual groups completely when
1966 * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be
1967 * too expensive.
1969 if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !swappiness) {
1970 scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
1971 goto out;
1975 * Do not apply any pressure balancing cleverness when the
1976 * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally
1977 * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping).
1979 if (!sc->priority && swappiness) {
1980 scan_balance = SCAN_EQUAL;
1981 goto out;
1985 * Prevent the reclaimer from falling into the cache trap: as
1986 * cache pages start out inactive, every cache fault will tip
1987 * the scan balance towards the file LRU. And as the file LRU
1988 * shrinks, so does the window for rotation from references.
1989 * This means we have a runaway feedback loop where a tiny
1990 * thrashing file LRU becomes infinitely more attractive than
1991 * anon pages. Try to detect this based on file LRU size.
1993 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
1994 unsigned long zonefile;
1995 unsigned long zonefree;
1997 zonefree = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
1998 zonefile = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
1999 zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
2001 if (unlikely(zonefile + zonefree <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
2002 scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
2003 goto out;
2008 * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim
2009 * anything from the anonymous working set right now.
2011 if (!inactive_file_is_low(lruvec)) {
2012 scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
2013 goto out;
2016 scan_balance = SCAN_FRACT;
2019 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
2020 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
2022 anon_prio = swappiness;
2023 file_prio = 200 - anon_prio;
2026 * OK, so we have swap space and a fair amount of page cache
2027 * pages. We use the recently rotated / recently scanned
2028 * ratios to determine how valuable each cache is.
2030 * Because workloads change over time (and to avoid overflow)
2031 * we keep these statistics as a floating average, which ends
2032 * up weighing recent references more than old ones.
2034 * anon in [0], file in [1]
2037 anon = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
2038 get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
2039 file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
2040 get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
2042 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
2043 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] > anon / 4)) {
2044 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] /= 2;
2045 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] /= 2;
2048 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] > file / 4)) {
2049 reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] /= 2;
2050 reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] /= 2;
2054 * The amount of pressure on anon vs file pages is inversely
2055 * proportional to the fraction of recently scanned pages on
2056 * each list that were recently referenced and in active use.
2058 ap = anon_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] + 1);
2059 ap /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] + 1;
2061 fp = file_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] + 1);
2062 fp /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] + 1;
2063 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
2065 fraction[0] = ap;
2066 fraction[1] = fp;
2067 denominator = ap + fp + 1;
2068 out:
2069 some_scanned = false;
2070 /* Only use force_scan on second pass. */
2071 for (pass = 0; !some_scanned && pass < 2; pass++) {
2072 *lru_pages = 0;
2073 for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
2074 int file = is_file_lru(lru);
2075 unsigned long size;
2076 unsigned long scan;
2078 size = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
2079 scan = size >> sc->priority;
2081 if (!scan && pass && force_scan)
2082 scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
2084 switch (scan_balance) {
2085 case SCAN_EQUAL:
2086 /* Scan lists relative to size */
2087 break;
2088 case SCAN_FRACT:
2090 * Scan types proportional to swappiness and
2091 * their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
2093 scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file],
2094 denominator);
2095 break;
2096 case SCAN_FILE:
2097 case SCAN_ANON:
2098 /* Scan one type exclusively */
2099 if ((scan_balance == SCAN_FILE) != file) {
2100 size = 0;
2101 scan = 0;
2103 break;
2104 default:
2105 /* Look ma, no brain */
2106 BUG();
2109 *lru_pages += size;
2110 nr[lru] = scan;
2113 * Skip the second pass and don't force_scan,
2114 * if we found something to scan.
2116 some_scanned |= !!scan;
2122 * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
2124 static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
2125 struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long *lru_pages)
2127 unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS];
2128 unsigned long targets[NR_LRU_LISTS];
2129 unsigned long nr_to_scan;
2130 enum lru_list lru;
2131 unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
2132 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim = sc->nr_to_reclaim;
2133 struct blk_plug plug;
2134 bool scan_adjusted;
2136 get_scan_count(lruvec, swappiness, sc, nr, lru_pages);
2138 /* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */
2139 memcpy(targets, nr, sizeof(nr));
2142 * Global reclaiming within direct reclaim at DEF_PRIORITY is a normal
2143 * event that can occur when there is little memory pressure e.g.
2144 * multiple streaming readers/writers. Hence, we do not abort scanning
2145 * when the requested number of pages are reclaimed when scanning at
2146 * DEF_PRIORITY on the assumption that the fact we are direct
2147 * reclaiming implies that kswapd is not keeping up and it is best to
2148 * do a batch of work at once. For memcg reclaim one check is made to
2149 * abort proportional reclaim if either the file or anon lru has already
2150 * dropped to zero at the first pass.
2152 scan_adjusted = (global_reclaim(sc) && !current_is_kswapd() &&
2153 sc->priority == DEF_PRIORITY);
2155 blk_start_plug(&plug);
2156 while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
2157 nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
2158 unsigned long nr_anon, nr_file, percentage;
2159 unsigned long nr_scanned;
2161 for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
2162 if (nr[lru]) {
2163 nr_to_scan = min(nr[lru], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
2164 nr[lru] -= nr_to_scan;
2166 nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(lru, nr_to_scan,
2167 lruvec, sc);
2171 if (nr_reclaimed < nr_to_reclaim || scan_adjusted)
2172 continue;
2175 * For kswapd and memcg, reclaim at least the number of pages
2176 * requested. Ensure that the anon and file LRUs are scanned
2177 * proportionally what was requested by get_scan_count(). We
2178 * stop reclaiming one LRU and reduce the amount scanning
2179 * proportional to the original scan target.
2181 nr_file = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] + nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE];
2182 nr_anon = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] + nr[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON];
2185 * It's just vindictive to attack the larger once the smaller
2186 * has gone to zero. And given the way we stop scanning the
2187 * smaller below, this makes sure that we only make one nudge
2188 * towards proportionality once we've got nr_to_reclaim.
2190 if (!nr_file || !nr_anon)
2191 break;
2193 if (nr_file > nr_anon) {
2194 unsigned long scan_target = targets[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] +
2195 targets[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON] + 1;
2196 lru = LRU_BASE;
2197 percentage = nr_anon * 100 / scan_target;
2198 } else {
2199 unsigned long scan_target = targets[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] +
2200 targets[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + 1;
2201 lru = LRU_FILE;
2202 percentage = nr_file * 100 / scan_target;
2205 /* Stop scanning the smaller of the LRU */
2206 nr[lru] = 0;
2207 nr[lru + LRU_ACTIVE] = 0;
2210 * Recalculate the other LRU scan count based on its original
2211 * scan target and the percentage scanning already complete
2213 lru = (lru == LRU_FILE) ? LRU_BASE : LRU_FILE;
2214 nr_scanned = targets[lru] - nr[lru];
2215 nr[lru] = targets[lru] * (100 - percentage) / 100;
2216 nr[lru] -= min(nr[lru], nr_scanned);
2218 lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
2219 nr_scanned = targets[lru] - nr[lru];
2220 nr[lru] = targets[lru] * (100 - percentage) / 100;
2221 nr[lru] -= min(nr[lru], nr_scanned);
2223 scan_adjusted = true;
2225 blk_finish_plug(&plug);
2226 sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_reclaimed;
2229 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
2230 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
2232 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec))
2233 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
2234 sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
2236 throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
2239 /* Use reclaim/compaction for costly allocs or under memory pressure */
2240 static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct scan_control *sc)
2242 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && sc->order &&
2243 (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER ||
2244 sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2))
2245 return true;
2247 return false;
2251 * Reclaim/compaction is used for high-order allocation requests. It reclaims
2252 * order-0 pages before compacting the zone. should_continue_reclaim() returns
2253 * true if more pages should be reclaimed such that when the page allocator
2254 * calls try_to_compact_zone() that it will have enough free pages to succeed.
2255 * It will give up earlier than that if there is difficulty reclaiming pages.
2257 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
2258 unsigned long nr_reclaimed,
2259 unsigned long nr_scanned,
2260 struct scan_control *sc)
2262 unsigned long pages_for_compaction;
2263 unsigned long inactive_lru_pages;
2265 /* If not in reclaim/compaction mode, stop */
2266 if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc))
2267 return false;
2269 /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
2270 if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT) {
2272 * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
2273 * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
2274 * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
2275 * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
2277 if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
2278 return false;
2279 } else {
2281 * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
2282 * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
2283 * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
2284 * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
2285 * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
2286 * the resulting allocation attempt fails
2288 if (!nr_reclaimed)
2289 return false;
2293 * If we have not reclaimed enough pages for compaction and the
2294 * inactive lists are large enough, continue reclaiming
2296 pages_for_compaction = (2UL << sc->order);
2297 inactive_lru_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
2298 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
2299 inactive_lru_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
2300 if (sc->nr_reclaimed < pages_for_compaction &&
2301 inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction)
2302 return true;
2304 /* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
2305 switch (compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order, 0, 0)) {
2306 case COMPACT_PARTIAL:
2307 case COMPACT_CONTINUE:
2308 return false;
2309 default:
2310 return true;
2314 static bool shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
2315 bool is_classzone)
2317 struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
2318 unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
2319 bool reclaimable = false;
2321 do {
2322 struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
2323 struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie reclaim = {
2324 .zone = zone,
2325 .priority = sc->priority,
2327 unsigned long zone_lru_pages = 0;
2328 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
2330 nr_reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;
2331 nr_scanned = sc->nr_scanned;
2333 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim);
2334 do {
2335 unsigned long lru_pages;
2336 unsigned long scanned;
2337 struct lruvec *lruvec;
2338 int swappiness;
2340 if (mem_cgroup_low(root, memcg)) {
2341 if (!sc->may_thrash)
2342 continue;
2343 mem_cgroup_events(memcg, MEMCG_LOW, 1);
2346 lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2347 swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
2348 scanned = sc->nr_scanned;
2350 shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, sc, &lru_pages);
2351 zone_lru_pages += lru_pages;
2353 if (memcg && is_classzone)
2354 shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, zone_to_nid(zone),
2355 memcg, sc->nr_scanned - scanned,
2356 lru_pages);
2359 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
2360 * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
2361 * zone.
2363 * Limit reclaim, on the other hand, only cares about
2364 * nr_to_reclaim pages to be reclaimed and it will
2365 * retry with decreasing priority if one round over the
2366 * whole hierarchy is not sufficient.
2368 if (!global_reclaim(sc) &&
2369 sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim) {
2370 mem_cgroup_iter_break(root, memcg);
2371 break;
2373 } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg, &reclaim)));
2376 * Shrink the slab caches in the same proportion that
2377 * the eligible LRU pages were scanned.
2379 if (global_reclaim(sc) && is_classzone)
2380 shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, zone_to_nid(zone), NULL,
2381 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
2382 zone_lru_pages);
2384 if (reclaim_state) {
2385 sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
2386 reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
2389 vmpressure(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
2390 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
2391 sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed);
2393 if (sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed)
2394 reclaimable = true;
2396 } while (should_continue_reclaim(zone, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
2397 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
2399 return reclaimable;
2403 * Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request, or
2404 * the high-order allocation would succeed without compaction.
2406 static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
2408 unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
2409 bool watermark_ok;
2412 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
2413 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
2414 * there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
2415 * a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
2417 balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
2418 zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
2419 watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
2420 watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
2423 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
2424 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
2426 if (compaction_deferred(zone, order))
2427 return watermark_ok;
2430 * If compaction is not ready to start and allocation is not likely
2431 * to succeed without it, then keep reclaiming.
2433 if (compaction_suitable(zone, order, 0, 0) == COMPACT_SKIPPED)
2434 return false;
2436 return watermark_ok;
2440 * This is the direct reclaim path, for page-allocating processes. We only
2441 * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
2442 * request.
2444 * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone).
2445 * Because:
2446 * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
2447 * allocation or
2448 * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones
2449 * must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min'
2450 * zone defense algorithm.
2452 * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
2453 * scan then give up on it.
2455 * Returns true if a zone was reclaimable.
2457 static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
2459 struct zoneref *z;
2460 struct zone *zone;
2461 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
2462 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
2463 gfp_t orig_mask;
2464 enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
2465 bool reclaimable = false;
2468 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
2469 * allowed level, force direct reclaim to scan the highmem zone as
2470 * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads
2472 orig_mask = sc->gfp_mask;
2473 if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
2474 sc->gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
2476 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
2477 requested_highidx, sc->nodemask) {
2478 enum zone_type classzone_idx;
2480 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2481 continue;
2483 classzone_idx = requested_highidx;
2484 while (!populated_zone(zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones +
2485 classzone_idx))
2486 classzone_idx--;
2489 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
2490 * to global LRU.
2492 if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
2493 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone,
2494 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HARDWALL))
2495 continue;
2497 if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
2498 !zone_reclaimable(zone))
2499 continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
2502 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
2503 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
2504 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
2505 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
2506 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
2507 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
2508 * page allocations.
2510 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
2511 sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
2512 zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
2513 compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
2514 sc->compaction_ready = true;
2515 continue;
2519 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
2520 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
2521 * scanned pages. This works for global memory pressure
2522 * and balancing, not for a memcg's limit.
2524 nr_soft_scanned = 0;
2525 nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
2526 sc->order, sc->gfp_mask,
2527 &nr_soft_scanned);
2528 sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
2529 sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
2530 if (nr_soft_reclaimed)
2531 reclaimable = true;
2532 /* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
2535 if (shrink_zone(zone, sc, zone_idx(zone) == classzone_idx))
2536 reclaimable = true;
2538 if (global_reclaim(sc) &&
2539 !reclaimable && zone_reclaimable(zone))
2540 reclaimable = true;
2544 * Restore to original mask to avoid the impact on the caller if we
2545 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
2547 sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
2549 return reclaimable;
2553 * This is the main entry point to direct page reclaim.
2555 * If a full scan of the inactive list fails to free enough memory then we
2556 * are "out of memory" and something needs to be killed.
2558 * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
2559 * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
2560 * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit
2561 * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the
2562 * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not
2563 * work, and the allocation attempt will fail.
2565 * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
2566 * else, the number of pages reclaimed
2568 static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
2569 struct scan_control *sc)
2571 int initial_priority = sc->priority;
2572 unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
2573 unsigned long writeback_threshold;
2574 bool zones_reclaimable;
2575 retry:
2576 delayacct_freepages_start();
2578 if (global_reclaim(sc))
2579 count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
2581 do {
2582 vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
2583 sc->priority);
2584 sc->nr_scanned = 0;
2585 zones_reclaimable = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
2587 total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
2588 if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
2589 break;
2591 if (sc->compaction_ready)
2592 break;
2595 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
2596 * writepage even in laptop mode.
2598 if (sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
2599 sc->may_writepage = 1;
2602 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
2603 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
2604 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
2605 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
2606 * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
2608 writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
2609 if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
2610 wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode ? 0 : total_scanned,
2611 WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
2612 sc->may_writepage = 1;
2614 } while (--sc->priority >= 0);
2616 delayacct_freepages_end();
2618 if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
2619 return sc->nr_reclaimed;
2621 /* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
2622 if (sc->compaction_ready)
2623 return 1;
2625 /* Untapped cgroup reserves? Don't OOM, retry. */
2626 if (!sc->may_thrash) {
2627 sc->priority = initial_priority;
2628 sc->may_thrash = 1;
2629 goto retry;
2632 /* Any of the zones still reclaimable? Don't OOM. */
2633 if (zones_reclaimable)
2634 return 1;
2636 return 0;
2639 static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat)
2641 struct zone *zone;
2642 unsigned long pfmemalloc_reserve = 0;
2643 unsigned long free_pages = 0;
2644 int i;
2645 bool wmark_ok;
2647 for (i = 0; i <= ZONE_NORMAL; i++) {
2648 zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
2649 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2650 continue;
2652 pfmemalloc_reserve += min_wmark_pages(zone);
2653 free_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
2656 /* If there are no reserves (unexpected config) then do not throttle */
2657 if (!pfmemalloc_reserve)
2658 return true;
2660 wmark_ok = free_pages > pfmemalloc_reserve / 2;
2662 /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */
2663 if (!wmark_ok && waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait)) {
2664 pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx,
2665 (enum zone_type)ZONE_NORMAL);
2666 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
2669 return wmark_ok;
2673 * Throttle direct reclaimers if backing storage is backed by the network
2674 * and the PFMEMALLOC reserve for the preferred node is getting dangerously
2675 * depleted. kswapd will continue to make progress and wake the processes
2676 * when the low watermark is reached.
2678 * Returns true if a fatal signal was delivered during throttling. If this
2679 * happens, the page allocator should not consider triggering the OOM killer.
2681 static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist,
2682 nodemask_t *nodemask)
2684 struct zoneref *z;
2685 struct zone *zone;
2686 pg_data_t *pgdat = NULL;
2689 * Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly
2690 * responsible for cleaning pages necessary for reclaim to make forward
2691 * progress. kjournald for example may enter direct reclaim while
2692 * committing a transaction where throttling it could forcing other
2693 * processes to block on log_wait_commit().
2695 if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
2696 goto out;
2699 * If a fatal signal is pending, this process should not throttle.
2700 * It should return quickly so it can exit and free its memory
2702 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
2703 goto out;
2706 * Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok by finding the first node
2707 * with a usable ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone. The expectation is that
2708 * GFP_KERNEL will be required for allocating network buffers when
2709 * swapping over the network so ZONE_HIGHMEM is unusable.
2711 * Throttling is based on the first usable node and throttled processes
2712 * wait on a queue until kswapd makes progress and wakes them. There
2713 * is an affinity then between processes waking up and where reclaim
2714 * progress has been made assuming the process wakes on the same node.
2715 * More importantly, processes running on remote nodes will not compete
2716 * for remote pfmemalloc reserves and processes on different nodes
2717 * should make reasonable progress.
2719 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
2720 gfp_zone(gfp_mask), nodemask) {
2721 if (zone_idx(zone) > ZONE_NORMAL)
2722 continue;
2724 /* Throttle based on the first usable node */
2725 pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
2726 if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
2727 goto out;
2728 break;
2731 /* If no zone was usable by the allocation flags then do not throttle */
2732 if (!pgdat)
2733 goto out;
2735 /* Account for the throttling */
2736 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE);
2739 * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it
2740 * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal
2741 * transaction in the case of a filesystem like ext[3|4]. In this case,
2742 * it is not safe to block on pfmemalloc_wait as kswapd could be
2743 * blocked waiting on the same lock. Instead, throttle for up to a
2744 * second before continuing.
2746 if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
2747 wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait,
2748 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat), HZ);
2750 goto check_pending;
2753 /* Throttle until kswapd wakes the process */
2754 wait_event_killable(zone->zone_pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait,
2755 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat));
2757 check_pending:
2758 if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
2759 return true;
2761 out:
2762 return false;
2765 unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
2766 gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
2768 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
2769 struct scan_control sc = {
2770 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2771 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask)),
2772 .order = order,
2773 .nodemask = nodemask,
2774 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2775 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2776 .may_unmap = 1,
2777 .may_swap = 1,
2781 * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal was delivered while throttled.
2782 * 1 is returned so that the page allocator does not OOM kill at this
2783 * point.
2785 if (throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, zonelist, nodemask))
2786 return 1;
2788 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin(order,
2789 sc.may_writepage,
2790 gfp_mask);
2792 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
2794 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
2796 return nr_reclaimed;
2799 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
2801 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
2802 gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
2803 struct zone *zone,
2804 unsigned long *nr_scanned)
2806 struct scan_control sc = {
2807 .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
2808 .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
2809 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2810 .may_unmap = 1,
2811 .may_swap = !noswap,
2813 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2814 int swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
2815 unsigned long lru_pages;
2817 sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
2818 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
2820 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin(sc.order,
2821 sc.may_writepage,
2822 sc.gfp_mask);
2825 * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
2826 * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
2827 * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_zone from balance_pgdat
2828 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
2829 * the priority and make it zero.
2831 shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, &sc, &lru_pages);
2833 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
2835 *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
2836 return sc.nr_reclaimed;
2839 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
2840 unsigned long nr_pages,
2841 gfp_t gfp_mask,
2842 bool may_swap)
2844 struct zonelist *zonelist;
2845 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
2846 int nid;
2847 struct scan_control sc = {
2848 .nr_to_reclaim = max(nr_pages, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
2849 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
2850 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK),
2851 .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
2852 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
2853 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
2854 .may_unmap = 1,
2855 .may_swap = may_swap,
2859 * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
2860 * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
2861 * scan does not need to be the current node.
2863 nid = mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(memcg);
2865 zonelist = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists;
2867 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin(0,
2868 sc.may_writepage,
2869 sc.gfp_mask);
2871 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
2873 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
2875 return nr_reclaimed;
2877 #endif
2879 static void age_active_anon(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
2881 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
2883 if (!total_swap_pages)
2884 return;
2886 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
2887 do {
2888 struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
2890 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec))
2891 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
2892 sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
2894 memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL);
2895 } while (memcg);
2898 static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
2899 unsigned long balance_gap, int classzone_idx)
2901 if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone) +
2902 balance_gap, classzone_idx, 0))
2903 return false;
2905 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && order && compaction_suitable(zone,
2906 order, 0, classzone_idx) == COMPACT_SKIPPED)
2907 return false;
2909 return true;
2913 * pgdat_balanced() is used when checking if a node is balanced.
2915 * For order-0, all zones must be balanced!
2917 * For high-order allocations only zones that meet watermarks and are in a
2918 * zone allowed by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The
2919 * total of balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by
2920 * classzone_idx for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to
2921 * be balanced for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are
2922 * imbalanced zones.
2923 * The choice of 25% is due to
2924 * o a 16M DMA zone that is balanced will not balance a zone on any
2925 * reasonable sized machine
2926 * o On all other machines, the top zone must be at least a reasonable
2927 * percentage of the middle zones. For example, on 32-bit x86, highmem
2928 * would need to be at least 256M for it to be balance a whole node.
2929 * Similarly, on x86-64 the Normal zone would need to be at least 1G
2930 * to balance a node on its own. These seemed like reasonable ratios.
2932 static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
2934 unsigned long managed_pages = 0;
2935 unsigned long balanced_pages = 0;
2936 int i;
2938 /* Check the watermark levels */
2939 for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++) {
2940 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
2942 if (!populated_zone(zone))
2943 continue;
2945 managed_pages += zone->managed_pages;
2948 * A special case here:
2950 * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
2951 * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
2952 * they must be considered balanced here as well!
2954 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone)) {
2955 balanced_pages += zone->managed_pages;
2956 continue;
2959 if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, i))
2960 balanced_pages += zone->managed_pages;
2961 else if (!order)
2962 return false;
2965 if (order)
2966 return balanced_pages >= (managed_pages >> 2);
2967 else
2968 return true;
2972 * Prepare kswapd for sleeping. This verifies that there are no processes
2973 * waiting in throttle_direct_reclaim() and that watermarks have been met.
2975 * Returns true if kswapd is ready to sleep
2977 static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
2978 int classzone_idx)
2980 /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
2981 if (remaining)
2982 return false;
2985 * The throttled processes are normally woken up in balance_pgdat() as
2986 * soon as pfmemalloc_watermark_ok() is true. But there is a potential
2987 * race between when kswapd checks the watermarks and a process gets
2988 * throttled. There is also a potential race if processes get
2989 * throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits thereby balancing the
2990 * zones, which causes kswapd to exit balance_pgdat() before reaching
2991 * the wake up checks. If kswapd is going to sleep, no process should
2992 * be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait, so wake them now if necessary. If
2993 * the wake up is premature, processes will wake kswapd and get
2994 * throttled again. The difference from wake ups in balance_pgdat() is
2995 * that here we are under prepare_to_wait().
2997 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait))
2998 wake_up_all(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
3000 return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, classzone_idx);
3004 * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach
3005 * the high watermark.
3007 * Returns true if kswapd scanned at least the requested number of pages to
3008 * reclaim or if the lack of progress was due to pages under writeback.
3009 * This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be raised.
3011 static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone,
3012 int classzone_idx,
3013 struct scan_control *sc,
3014 unsigned long *nr_attempted)
3016 int testorder = sc->order;
3017 unsigned long balance_gap;
3018 bool lowmem_pressure;
3020 /* Reclaim above the high watermark. */
3021 sc->nr_to_reclaim = max(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, high_wmark_pages(zone));
3024 * Kswapd reclaims only single pages with compaction enabled. Trying
3025 * too hard to reclaim until contiguous free pages have become
3026 * available can hurt performance by evicting too much useful data
3027 * from memory. Do not reclaim more than needed for compaction.
3029 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && sc->order &&
3030 compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order, 0, classzone_idx)
3031 != COMPACT_SKIPPED)
3032 testorder = 0;
3035 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one zone has way too
3036 * many pages free already. The "too many pages" is defined as the
3037 * high wmark plus a "gap" where the gap is either the low
3038 * watermark or 1% of the zone, whichever is smaller.
3040 balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
3041 zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
3044 * If there is no low memory pressure or the zone is balanced then no
3045 * reclaim is necessary
3047 lowmem_pressure = (buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem(zone));
3048 if (!lowmem_pressure && zone_balanced(zone, testorder,
3049 balance_gap, classzone_idx))
3050 return true;
3052 shrink_zone(zone, sc, zone_idx(zone) == classzone_idx);
3054 /* Account for the number of pages attempted to reclaim */
3055 *nr_attempted += sc->nr_to_reclaim;
3057 clear_bit(ZONE_WRITEBACK, &zone->flags);
3060 * If a zone reaches its high watermark, consider it to be no longer
3061 * congested. It's possible there are dirty pages backed by congested
3062 * BDIs but as pressure is relieved, speculatively avoid congestion
3063 * waits.
3065 if (zone_reclaimable(zone) &&
3066 zone_balanced(zone, testorder, 0, classzone_idx)) {
3067 clear_bit(ZONE_CONGESTED, &zone->flags);
3068 clear_bit(ZONE_DIRTY, &zone->flags);
3071 return sc->nr_scanned >= sc->nr_to_reclaim;
3075 * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
3076 * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone).
3078 * Returns the final order kswapd was reclaiming at
3080 * There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
3081 * This can happen if the pages are all mlocked, or if they are all used by
3082 * device drivers (say, ZONE_DMA). Or if they are all in use by hugetlb.
3083 * What we do is to detect the case where all pages in the zone have been
3084 * scanned twice and there has been zero successful reclaim. Mark the zone as
3085 * dead and from now on, only perform a short scan. Basically we're polling
3086 * the zone for when the problem goes away.
3088 * kswapd scans the zones in the highmem->normal->dma direction. It skips
3089 * zones which have free_pages > high_wmark_pages(zone), but once a zone is
3090 * found to have free_pages <= high_wmark_pages(zone), we scan that zone and the
3091 * lower zones regardless of the number of free pages in the lower zones. This
3092 * interoperates with the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging
3093 * of pages is balanced across the zones.
3095 static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
3096 int *classzone_idx)
3098 int i;
3099 int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
3100 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
3101 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
3102 struct scan_control sc = {
3103 .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
3104 .order = order,
3105 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
3106 .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
3107 .may_unmap = 1,
3108 .may_swap = 1,
3110 count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
3112 do {
3113 unsigned long nr_attempted = 0;
3114 bool raise_priority = true;
3115 bool pgdat_needs_compaction = (order > 0);
3117 sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
3120 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
3121 * zone which needs scanning
3123 for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
3124 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
3126 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3127 continue;
3129 if (sc.priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
3130 !zone_reclaimable(zone))
3131 continue;
3134 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give
3135 * pages a chance to be referenced before reclaiming.
3137 age_active_anon(zone, &sc);
3140 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine
3141 * exceeds the maximum allowed level and this node
3142 * has a highmem zone, force kswapd to reclaim from
3143 * it to relieve lowmem pressure.
3145 if (buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem_idx(i)) {
3146 end_zone = i;
3147 break;
3150 if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0)) {
3151 end_zone = i;
3152 break;
3153 } else {
3155 * If balanced, clear the dirty and congested
3156 * flags
3158 clear_bit(ZONE_CONGESTED, &zone->flags);
3159 clear_bit(ZONE_DIRTY, &zone->flags);
3163 if (i < 0)
3164 goto out;
3166 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
3167 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
3169 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3170 continue;
3173 * If any zone is currently balanced then kswapd will
3174 * not call compaction as it is expected that the
3175 * necessary pages are already available.
3177 if (pgdat_needs_compaction &&
3178 zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
3179 low_wmark_pages(zone),
3180 *classzone_idx, 0))
3181 pgdat_needs_compaction = false;
3185 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing writepage
3186 * even in laptop mode.
3188 if (sc.priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
3189 sc.may_writepage = 1;
3192 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
3193 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
3195 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
3196 * direction. This prevents the page allocator from allocating
3197 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
3198 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
3200 for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
3201 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
3203 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3204 continue;
3206 if (sc.priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
3207 !zone_reclaimable(zone))
3208 continue;
3210 sc.nr_scanned = 0;
3212 nr_soft_scanned = 0;
3214 * Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
3216 nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
3217 order, sc.gfp_mask,
3218 &nr_soft_scanned);
3219 sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
3222 * There should be no need to raise the scanning
3223 * priority if enough pages are already being scanned
3224 * that that high watermark would be met at 100%
3225 * efficiency.
3227 if (kswapd_shrink_zone(zone, end_zone,
3228 &sc, &nr_attempted))
3229 raise_priority = false;
3233 * If the low watermark is met there is no need for processes
3234 * to be throttled on pfmemalloc_wait as they should not be
3235 * able to safely make forward progress. Wake them
3237 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait) &&
3238 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
3239 wake_up_all(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
3242 * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced
3243 * for high-order allocations in all zones. If twice the
3244 * allocation size has been reclaimed and the zones are still
3245 * not balanced then recheck the watermarks at order-0 to
3246 * prevent kswapd reclaiming excessively. Assume that a
3247 * process requested a high-order can direct reclaim/compact.
3249 if (order && sc.nr_reclaimed >= 2UL << order)
3250 order = sc.order = 0;
3252 /* Check if kswapd should be suspending */
3253 if (try_to_freeze() || kthread_should_stop())
3254 break;
3257 * Compact if necessary and kswapd is reclaiming at least the
3258 * high watermark number of pages as requsted
3260 if (pgdat_needs_compaction && sc.nr_reclaimed > nr_attempted)
3261 compact_pgdat(pgdat, order);
3264 * Raise priority if scanning rate is too low or there was no
3265 * progress in reclaiming pages
3267 if (raise_priority || !sc.nr_reclaimed)
3268 sc.priority--;
3269 } while (sc.priority >= 1 &&
3270 !pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx));
3272 out:
3274 * Return the order we were reclaiming at so prepare_kswapd_sleep()
3275 * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However,
3276 * if another caller entered the allocator slow path while kswapd
3277 * was awake, order will remain at the higher level
3279 *classzone_idx = end_zone;
3280 return order;
3283 static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
3285 long remaining = 0;
3286 DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
3288 if (freezing(current) || kthread_should_stop())
3289 return;
3291 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
3293 /* Try to sleep for a short interval */
3294 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
3295 remaining = schedule_timeout(HZ/10);
3296 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
3297 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
3301 * After a short sleep, check if it was a premature sleep. If not, then
3302 * go fully to sleep until explicitly woken up.
3304 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
3305 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
3308 * vmstat counters are not perfectly accurate and the estimated
3309 * value for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES can deviate from the
3310 * true value by nr_online_cpus * threshold. To avoid the zone
3311 * watermarks being breached while under pressure, we reduce the
3312 * per-cpu vmstat threshold while kswapd is awake and restore
3313 * them before going back to sleep.
3315 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold);
3318 * Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to
3319 * isolate pages from and skips them in the future scanning.
3320 * When kswapd is going to sleep, it is reasonable to assume
3321 * that pages and compaction may succeed so reset the cache.
3323 reset_isolation_suitable(pgdat);
3325 if (!kthread_should_stop())
3326 schedule();
3328 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold);
3329 } else {
3330 if (remaining)
3331 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
3332 else
3333 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
3335 finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
3339 * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
3340 * from the init process.
3342 * This basically trickles out pages so that we have _some_
3343 * free memory available even if there is no other activity
3344 * that frees anything up. This is needed for things like routing
3345 * etc, where we otherwise might have all activity going on in
3346 * asynchronous contexts that cannot page things out.
3348 * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators
3349 * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter.
3351 static int kswapd(void *p)
3353 unsigned long order, new_order;
3354 unsigned balanced_order;
3355 int classzone_idx, new_classzone_idx;
3356 int balanced_classzone_idx;
3357 pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t*)p;
3358 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
3360 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
3361 .reclaimed_slab = 0,
3363 const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
3365 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL);
3367 if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
3368 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
3369 current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3372 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
3373 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
3374 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
3375 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
3377 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
3378 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
3379 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
3380 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
3381 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
3383 tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
3384 set_freezable();
3386 order = new_order = 0;
3387 balanced_order = 0;
3388 classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
3389 balanced_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
3390 for ( ; ; ) {
3391 bool ret;
3394 * If the last balance_pgdat was unsuccessful it's unlikely a
3395 * new request of a similar or harder type will succeed soon
3396 * so consider going to sleep on the basis we reclaimed at
3398 if (balanced_classzone_idx >= new_classzone_idx &&
3399 balanced_order == new_order) {
3400 new_order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
3401 new_classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
3402 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
3403 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
3406 if (order < new_order || classzone_idx > new_classzone_idx) {
3408 * Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
3409 * allocation or has tigher zone constraints
3411 order = new_order;
3412 classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx;
3413 } else {
3414 kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat, balanced_order,
3415 balanced_classzone_idx);
3416 order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
3417 classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
3418 new_order = order;
3419 new_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
3420 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
3421 pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
3424 ret = try_to_freeze();
3425 if (kthread_should_stop())
3426 break;
3429 * We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call balance_pgdat
3430 * after returning from the refrigerator
3432 if (!ret) {
3433 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake(pgdat->node_id, order);
3434 balanced_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
3435 balanced_order = balance_pgdat(pgdat, order,
3436 &balanced_classzone_idx);
3440 tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD);
3441 current->reclaim_state = NULL;
3442 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3444 return 0;
3448 * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
3450 void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
3452 pg_data_t *pgdat;
3454 if (!populated_zone(zone))
3455 return;
3457 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HARDWALL))
3458 return;
3459 pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
3460 if (pgdat->kswapd_max_order < order) {
3461 pgdat->kswapd_max_order = order;
3462 pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx, classzone_idx);
3464 if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
3465 return;
3466 if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0))
3467 return;
3469 trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
3470 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
3473 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
3475 * Try to free `nr_to_reclaim' of memory, system-wide, and return the number of
3476 * freed pages.
3478 * Rather than trying to age LRUs the aim is to preserve the overall
3479 * LRU order by reclaiming preferentially
3480 * inactive > active > active referenced > active mapped
3482 unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim)
3484 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
3485 struct scan_control sc = {
3486 .nr_to_reclaim = nr_to_reclaim,
3487 .gfp_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
3488 .priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
3489 .may_writepage = 1,
3490 .may_unmap = 1,
3491 .may_swap = 1,
3492 .hibernation_mode = 1,
3494 struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), sc.gfp_mask);
3495 struct task_struct *p = current;
3496 unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
3498 p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
3499 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(sc.gfp_mask);
3500 reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
3501 p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3503 nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
3505 p->reclaim_state = NULL;
3506 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3507 p->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
3509 return nr_reclaimed;
3511 #endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
3513 /* It's optimal to keep kswapds on the same CPUs as their memory, but
3514 not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
3515 away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
3516 restore their cpu bindings. */
3517 static int cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action,
3518 void *hcpu)
3520 int nid;
3522 if (action == CPU_ONLINE || action == CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN) {
3523 for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) {
3524 pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
3525 const struct cpumask *mask;
3527 mask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
3529 if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, mask) < nr_cpu_ids)
3530 /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
3531 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kswapd, mask);
3534 return NOTIFY_OK;
3538 * This kswapd start function will be called by init and node-hot-add.
3539 * On node-hot-add, kswapd will moved to proper cpus if cpus are hot-added.
3541 int kswapd_run(int nid)
3543 pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
3544 int ret = 0;
3546 if (pgdat->kswapd)
3547 return 0;
3549 pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
3550 if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
3551 /* failure at boot is fatal */
3552 BUG_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING);
3553 pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid);
3554 ret = PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd);
3555 pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
3557 return ret;
3561 * Called by memory hotplug when all memory in a node is offlined. Caller must
3562 * hold mem_hotplug_begin/end().
3564 void kswapd_stop(int nid)
3566 struct task_struct *kswapd = NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd;
3568 if (kswapd) {
3569 kthread_stop(kswapd);
3570 NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd = NULL;
3574 static int __init kswapd_init(void)
3576 int nid;
3578 swap_setup();
3579 for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
3580 kswapd_run(nid);
3581 hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);
3582 return 0;
3585 module_init(kswapd_init)
3587 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
3589 * Zone reclaim mode
3591 * If non-zero call zone_reclaim when the number of free pages falls below
3592 * the watermarks.
3594 int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
3596 #define RECLAIM_OFF 0
3597 #define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0) /* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
3598 #define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1) /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
3599 #define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2) /* Swap pages out during reclaim */
3602 * Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
3603 * of a node considered for each zone_reclaim. 4 scans 1/16th of
3604 * a zone.
3606 #define ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY 4
3609 * Percentage of pages in a zone that must be unmapped for zone_reclaim to
3610 * occur.
3612 int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio = 1;
3615 * If the number of slab pages in a zone grows beyond this percentage then
3616 * slab reclaim needs to occur.
3618 int sysctl_min_slab_ratio = 5;
3620 static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone *zone)
3622 unsigned long file_mapped = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED);
3623 unsigned long file_lru = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
3624 zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
3627 * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than
3628 * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because
3629 * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED
3631 return (file_lru > file_mapped) ? (file_lru - file_mapped) : 0;
3634 /* Work out how many page cache pages we can reclaim in this reclaim_mode */
3635 static long zone_pagecache_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
3637 long nr_pagecache_reclaimable;
3638 long delta = 0;
3641 * If RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then all file pages are considered
3642 * potentially reclaimable. Otherwise, we have to worry about
3643 * pages like swapcache and zone_unmapped_file_pages() provides
3644 * a better estimate
3646 if (zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP)
3647 nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES);
3648 else
3649 nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone);
3651 /* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */
3652 if (!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE))
3653 delta += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
3655 /* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */
3656 if (unlikely(delta > nr_pagecache_reclaimable))
3657 delta = nr_pagecache_reclaimable;
3659 return nr_pagecache_reclaimable - delta;
3663 * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
3665 static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
3667 /* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */
3668 const unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
3669 struct task_struct *p = current;
3670 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
3671 struct scan_control sc = {
3672 .nr_to_reclaim = max(nr_pages, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
3673 .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask)),
3674 .order = order,
3675 .priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY,
3676 .may_writepage = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE),
3677 .may_unmap = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP),
3678 .may_swap = 1,
3681 cond_resched();
3683 * We need to be able to allocate from the reserves for RECLAIM_SWAP
3684 * and we also need to be able to write out pages for RECLAIM_WRITE
3685 * and RECLAIM_SWAP.
3687 p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE;
3688 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask);
3689 reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
3690 p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
3692 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) > zone->min_unmapped_pages) {
3694 * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing
3695 * priorities until we have enough memory freed.
3697 do {
3698 shrink_zone(zone, &sc, true);
3699 } while (sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages && --sc.priority >= 0);
3702 p->reclaim_state = NULL;
3703 current->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE);
3704 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3705 return sc.nr_reclaimed >= nr_pages;
3708 int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
3710 int node_id;
3711 int ret;
3714 * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
3715 * slab pages if we are over the defined limits.
3717 * A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
3718 * file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
3719 * thrown out if the zone is overallocated. So we do not reclaim
3720 * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by
3721 * unmapped file backed pages.
3723 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages &&
3724 zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) <= zone->min_slab_pages)
3725 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL;
3727 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone))
3728 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL;
3731 * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
3733 if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
3734 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3737 * Only run zone reclaim on the local zone or on zones that do not
3738 * have associated processors. This will favor the local processor
3739 * over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations
3740 * as wide as possible.
3742 node_id = zone_to_nid(zone);
3743 if (node_state(node_id, N_CPU) && node_id != numa_node_id())
3744 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3746 if (test_and_set_bit(ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &zone->flags))
3747 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
3749 ret = __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
3750 clear_bit(ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &zone->flags);
3752 if (!ret)
3753 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED);
3755 return ret;
3757 #endif
3760 * page_evictable - test whether a page is evictable
3761 * @page: the page to test
3763 * Test whether page is evictable--i.e., should be placed on active/inactive
3764 * lists vs unevictable list.
3766 * Reasons page might not be evictable:
3767 * (1) page's mapping marked unevictable
3768 * (2) page is part of an mlocked VMA
3771 int page_evictable(struct page *page)
3773 return !mapping_unevictable(page_mapping(page)) && !PageMlocked(page);
3776 #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
3778 * check_move_unevictable_pages - check pages for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
3779 * @pages: array of pages to check
3780 * @nr_pages: number of pages to check
3782 * Checks pages for evictability and moves them to the appropriate lru list.
3784 * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
3786 void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page **pages, int nr_pages)
3788 struct lruvec *lruvec;
3789 struct zone *zone = NULL;
3790 int pgscanned = 0;
3791 int pgrescued = 0;
3792 int i;
3794 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
3795 struct page *page = pages[i];
3796 struct zone *pagezone;
3798 pgscanned++;
3799 pagezone = page_zone(page);
3800 if (pagezone != zone) {
3801 if (zone)
3802 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3803 zone = pagezone;
3804 spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3806 lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
3808 if (!PageLRU(page) || !PageUnevictable(page))
3809 continue;
3811 if (page_evictable(page)) {
3812 enum lru_list lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
3814 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
3815 ClearPageUnevictable(page);
3816 del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, LRU_UNEVICTABLE);
3817 add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
3818 pgrescued++;
3822 if (zone) {
3823 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED, pgrescued);
3824 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pgscanned);
3825 spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
3828 #endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */