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mm: take pagevecs off reclaim stack

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Replace pagevecs in putback_lru_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru()
by lists of pages_to_free: then apply Konstantin Khlebnikov's
free_hot_cold_page_list() to them instead of pagevec_release().

Which simplifies the flow (no need to drop and retake lock whenever
pagevec fills up) and reduces stale addresses in stack backtraces
(which often showed through the pagevecs); but more importantly,
removes another 120 bytes from the deepest stacks in page reclaim.
Although I've not recently seen an actual stack overflow here with
a vanilla kernel, move_active_pages_to_lru() has often featured in
deep backtraces.

However, free_hot_cold_page_list() does not handle compound pages
(nor need it: a Transparent HugePage would have been split by the
time it reaches the call in shrink_page_list()), but it is possible
for putback_lru_pages() or move_active_pages_to_lru() to be left
holding the last reference on a THP, so must exclude the unlikely
compound case before putting on pages_to_free.

Remove pagevec_strip(), its work now done in move_active_pages_to_lru().
The pagevec in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() remains in mm/vmscan.c,
but that is never on the reclaim path, and cannot be replaced by a list.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins 2012-01-12 17:19:56 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 90b3feaec8
commit 2bcf887963
3 changed files with 40 additions and 39 deletions
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include/linux/pagevec.h
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@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ struct pagevec {
void __pagevec_release(struct pagevec *pvec);
void ____pagevec_lru_add(struct pagevec *pvec, enum lru_list lru);
void pagevec_strip(struct pagevec *pvec);
unsigned pagevec_lookup(struct pagevec *pvec, struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, unsigned nr_pages);
unsigned pagevec_lookup_tag(struct pagevec *pvec,
@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ static inline unsigned pagevec_add(struct pagevec *pvec, struct page *page)
return pagevec_space(pvec);
}
static inline void pagevec_release(struct pagevec *pvec)
{
if (pagevec_count(pvec))