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memory unplug: page isolation

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Implement generic chunk-of-pages isolation method by using page grouping ops.

This patch add MIGRATE_ISOLATE to MIGRATE_TYPES. By this
 - MIGRATE_TYPES increases.
 - bitmap for migratetype is enlarged.

pages of MIGRATE_ISOLATE migratetype will not be allocated even if it is free.
By this, you can isolated *freed* pages from users. How-to-free pages is not
a purpose of this patch. You may use reclaim and migrate codes to free pages.

If start_isolate_page_range(start,end) is called,
 - migratetype of the range turns to be MIGRATE_ISOLATE  if
   its type is MIGRATE_MOVABLE. (*) this check can be updated if other
   memory reclaiming works make progress.
 - MIGRATE_ISOLATE is not on migratetype fallback list.
 - All free pages and will-be-freed pages are isolated.
To check all pages in the range are isolated or not,  use test_pages_isolated(),
To cancel isolation, use undo_isolate_page_range().

Changes V6 -> V7
 - removed unnecessary #ifdef

There are HOLES_IN_ZONE handling codes...I'm glad if we can remove them..

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2007-10-16 01:26:11 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 75884fb1c6
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#ifndef __LINUX_PAGEISOLATION_H
#define __LINUX_PAGEISOLATION_H
/*
* Changes migrate type in [start_pfn, end_pfn) to be MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
* If specified range includes migrate types other than MOVABLE,
* this will fail with -EBUSY.
*
* For isolating all pages in the range finally, the caller have to
* free all pages in the range. test_page_isolated() can be used for
* test it.
*/
extern int
start_isolate_page_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn);
/*
* Changes MIGRATE_ISOLATE to MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
* target range is [start_pfn, end_pfn)
*/
extern int
undo_isolate_page_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn);
/*
* test all pages in [start_pfn, end_pfn)are isolated or not.
*/
extern int
test_pages_isolated(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn);
/*
* Internal funcs.Changes pageblock's migrate type.
* Please use make_pagetype_isolated()/make_pagetype_movable().
*/
extern int set_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page);
extern void unset_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page);
#endif