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Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE

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Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE.  However,
as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it
can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been
running a long time.  This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool
at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE.

This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable.  When a
non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool
will use ZONE_MOVABLE.  Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not
introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always
the largest contiguous block we care about.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: 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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Mel Gorman 2007-07-17 04:03:13 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2a1e274acf
commit 396faf0303
5 changed files with 36 additions and 8 deletions
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include/linux/hugetlb.h
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@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ static inline int is_vm_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
}
int hugetlb_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int hugetlb_treat_movable_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *, struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *, struct page **, struct vm_area_struct **, unsigned long *, int *, int);
void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long from, long to);
void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
extern unsigned long max_huge_pages;
extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;