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.
15 #include <linux/module.h>
16 #include <linux/gfp.h>
17 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
18 #include <linux/swap.h>
19 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
20 #include <linux/init.h>
21 #include <linux/highmem.h>
22 #include <linux/vmpressure.h>
23 #include <linux/vmstat.h>
24 #include <linux/file.h>
25 #include <linux/writeback.h>
26 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
27 #include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* for try_to_release_page(),
28 buffer_heads_over_limit */
29 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
30 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
31 #include <linux/rmap.h>
32 #include <linux/topology.h>
33 #include <linux/cpu.h>
34 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
35 #include <linux/compaction.h>
36 #include <linux/notifier.h>
37 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
38 #include <linux/delay.h>
39 #include <linux/kthread.h>
40 #include <linux/freezer.h>
41 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
42 #include <linux/delayacct.h>
43 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
44 #include <linux/oom.h>
45 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
47 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
48 #include <asm/div64.h>
50 #include <linux/swapops.h>
54 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
55 #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
58 /* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
59 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
61 /* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
62 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
64 /* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
65 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim
;
67 unsigned long hibernation_mode
;
69 /* This context's GFP mask */
74 /* Can mapped pages be reclaimed? */
77 /* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
82 /* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
86 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
87 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
89 struct mem_cgroup
*target_mem_cgroup
;
92 * Nodemask of nodes allowed by the caller. If NULL, all nodes
98 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
100 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
101 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
103 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
106 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
107 prefetch(&prev->_field); \
111 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
114 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
115 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
117 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
120 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
121 prefetchw(&prev->_field); \
125 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
129 * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
131 int vm_swappiness
= 60;
132 unsigned long vm_total_pages
; /* The total number of pages which the VM controls */
134 static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list
);
135 static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem
);
138 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control
*sc
)
140 return !sc
->target_mem_cgroup
;
143 static bool mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim(struct scan_control
*sc
)
145 struct mem_cgroup
*root
= sc
->target_mem_cgroup
;
146 return !mem_cgroup_disabled() &&
147 mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible(root
, root
) != SKIP_TREE
;
150 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control
*sc
)
155 static bool mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim(struct scan_control
*sc
)
161 unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone
*zone
)
165 nr
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_FILE
) +
166 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
168 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
169 nr
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_ANON
) +
170 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
175 bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone
*zone
)
177 return zone
->pages_scanned
< zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
) * 6;
180 static unsigned long get_lru_size(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, enum lru_list lru
)
182 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
183 return mem_cgroup_get_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
);
185 return zone_page_state(lruvec_zone(lruvec
), NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
);
189 * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm.
191 int register_shrinker(struct shrinker
*shrinker
)
193 size_t size
= sizeof(*shrinker
->nr_deferred
);
196 * If we only have one possible node in the system anyway, save
197 * ourselves the trouble and disable NUMA aware behavior. This way we
198 * will save memory and some small loop time later.
200 if (nr_node_ids
== 1)
201 shrinker
->flags
&= ~SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE
;
203 if (shrinker
->flags
& SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE
)
206 shrinker
->nr_deferred
= kzalloc(size
, GFP_KERNEL
);
207 if (!shrinker
->nr_deferred
)
210 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
211 list_add_tail(&shrinker
->list
, &shrinker_list
);
212 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
215 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker
);
220 void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker
*shrinker
)
222 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
223 list_del(&shrinker
->list
);
224 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
226 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker
);
228 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
231 shrink_slab_node(struct shrink_control
*shrinkctl
, struct shrinker
*shrinker
,
232 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned
, unsigned long lru_pages
)
234 unsigned long freed
= 0;
235 unsigned long long delta
;
240 int nid
= shrinkctl
->nid
;
241 long batch_size
= shrinker
->batch
? shrinker
->batch
244 max_pass
= shrinker
->count_objects(shrinker
, shrinkctl
);
249 * copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
250 * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
251 * don't also do this scanning work.
253 nr
= atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker
->nr_deferred
[nid
], 0);
256 delta
= (4 * nr_pages_scanned
) / shrinker
->seeks
;
258 do_div(delta
, lru_pages
+ 1);
260 if (total_scan
< 0) {
262 "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to delete nr=%ld\n",
263 shrinker
->scan_objects
, total_scan
);
264 total_scan
= max_pass
;
268 * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
269 * due to large numbers of GFP_NOFS allocations causing the
270 * shrinkers to return -1 all the time. This results in a large
271 * nr being built up so when a shrink that can do some work
272 * comes along it empties the entire cache due to nr >>>
273 * max_pass. This is bad for sustaining a working set in
276 * Hence only allow the shrinker to scan the entire cache when
277 * a large delta change is calculated directly.
279 if (delta
< max_pass
/ 4)
280 total_scan
= min(total_scan
, max_pass
/ 2);
283 * Avoid risking looping forever due to too large nr value:
284 * never try to free more than twice the estimate number of
287 if (total_scan
> max_pass
* 2)
288 total_scan
= max_pass
* 2;
290 trace_mm_shrink_slab_start(shrinker
, shrinkctl
, nr
,
291 nr_pages_scanned
, lru_pages
,
292 max_pass
, delta
, total_scan
);
294 while (total_scan
>= batch_size
) {
297 shrinkctl
->nr_to_scan
= batch_size
;
298 ret
= shrinker
->scan_objects(shrinker
, shrinkctl
);
299 if (ret
== SHRINK_STOP
)
303 count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED
, batch_size
);
304 total_scan
-= batch_size
;
310 * move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a
311 * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
312 * scan, there is no need to do an update.
315 new_nr
= atomic_long_add_return(total_scan
,
316 &shrinker
->nr_deferred
[nid
]);
318 new_nr
= atomic_long_read(&shrinker
->nr_deferred
[nid
]);
320 trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker
, freed
, nr
, new_nr
);
325 * Call the shrink functions to age shrinkable caches
327 * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that it also
328 * takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in mind we age equal
329 * percentages of the lru and ageable caches. This should balance the seeks
330 * generated by these structures.
332 * If the vm encountered mapped pages on the LRU it increase the pressure on
333 * slab to avoid swapping.
335 * We do weird things to avoid (scanned*seeks*entries) overflowing 32 bits.
337 * `lru_pages' represents the number of on-LRU pages in all the zones which
338 * are eligible for the caller's allocation attempt. It is used for balancing
339 * slab reclaim versus page reclaim.
341 * Returns the number of slab objects which we shrunk.
343 unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control
*shrinkctl
,
344 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned
,
345 unsigned long lru_pages
)
347 struct shrinker
*shrinker
;
348 unsigned long freed
= 0;
350 if (nr_pages_scanned
== 0)
351 nr_pages_scanned
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
;
353 if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem
)) {
355 * If we would return 0, our callers would understand that we
356 * have nothing else to shrink and give up trying. By returning
357 * 1 we keep it going and assume we'll be able to shrink next
364 list_for_each_entry(shrinker
, &shrinker_list
, list
) {
365 for_each_node_mask(shrinkctl
->nid
, shrinkctl
->nodes_to_scan
) {
366 if (!node_online(shrinkctl
->nid
))
369 if (!(shrinker
->flags
& SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE
) &&
370 (shrinkctl
->nid
!= 0))
373 freed
+= shrink_slab_node(shrinkctl
, shrinker
,
374 nr_pages_scanned
, lru_pages
);
378 up_read(&shrinker_rwsem
);
384 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page
*page
)
387 * A freeable page cache page is referenced only by the caller
388 * that isolated the page, the page cache radix tree and
389 * optional buffer heads at page->private.
391 return page_count(page
) - page_has_private(page
) == 2;
394 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
395 struct scan_control
*sc
)
397 if (current
->flags
& PF_SWAPWRITE
)
399 if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi
))
401 if (bdi
== current
->backing_dev_info
)
407 * We detected a synchronous write error writing a page out. Probably
408 * -ENOSPC. We need to propagate that into the address_space for a subsequent
409 * fsync(), msync() or close().
411 * The tricky part is that after writepage we cannot touch the mapping: nothing
412 * prevents it from being freed up. But we have a ref on the page and once
413 * that page is locked, the mapping is pinned.
415 * We're allowed to run sleeping lock_page() here because we know the caller has
418 static void handle_write_error(struct address_space
*mapping
,
419 struct page
*page
, int error
)
422 if (page_mapping(page
) == mapping
)
423 mapping_set_error(mapping
, error
);
427 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
429 /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
431 /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
433 /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
435 /* page is clean and locked */
440 * pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
441 * Calls ->writepage().
443 static pageout_t
pageout(struct page
*page
, struct address_space
*mapping
,
444 struct scan_control
*sc
)
447 * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
448 * will be non-blocking. To prevent this allocation from being
449 * stalled by pagecache activity. But note that there may be
450 * stalls if we need to run get_block(). We could test
451 * PagePrivate for that.
453 * If this process is currently in __generic_file_aio_write() against
454 * this page's queue, we can perform writeback even if that
457 * If the page is swapcache, write it back even if that would
458 * block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
459 * swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
460 * congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
462 if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page
))
466 * Some data journaling orphaned pages can have
467 * page->mapping == NULL while being dirty with clean buffers.
469 if (page_has_private(page
)) {
470 if (try_to_free_buffers(page
)) {
471 ClearPageDirty(page
);
472 printk("%s: orphaned page\n", __func__
);
478 if (mapping
->a_ops
->writepage
== NULL
)
479 return PAGE_ACTIVATE
;
480 if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping
->backing_dev_info
, sc
))
483 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
)) {
485 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
486 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_NONE
,
487 .nr_to_write
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
489 .range_end
= LLONG_MAX
,
493 SetPageReclaim(page
);
494 res
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, &wbc
);
496 handle_write_error(mapping
, page
, res
);
497 if (res
== AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
) {
498 ClearPageReclaim(page
);
499 return PAGE_ACTIVATE
;
502 if (!PageWriteback(page
)) {
503 /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
504 ClearPageReclaim(page
);
506 trace_mm_vmscan_writepage(page
, trace_reclaim_flags(page
));
507 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE
);
515 * Same as remove_mapping, but if the page is removed from the mapping, it
516 * gets returned with a refcount of 0.
518 static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct page
*page
)
520 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
521 BUG_ON(mapping
!= page_mapping(page
));
523 spin_lock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
525 * The non racy check for a busy page.
527 * Must be careful with the order of the tests. When someone has
528 * a ref to the page, it may be possible that they dirty it then
529 * drop the reference. So if PageDirty is tested before page_count
530 * here, then the following race may occur:
532 * get_user_pages(&page);
533 * [user mapping goes away]
535 * !PageDirty(page) [good]
536 * SetPageDirty(page);
538 * !page_count(page) [good, discard it]
540 * [oops, our write_to data is lost]
542 * Reversing the order of the tests ensures such a situation cannot
543 * escape unnoticed. The smp_rmb is needed to ensure the page->flags
544 * load is not satisfied before that of page->_count.
546 * Note that if SetPageDirty is always performed via set_page_dirty,
547 * and thus under tree_lock, then this ordering is not required.
549 if (!page_freeze_refs(page
, 2))
551 /* note: atomic_cmpxchg in page_freeze_refs provides the smp_rmb */
552 if (unlikely(PageDirty(page
))) {
553 page_unfreeze_refs(page
, 2);
557 if (PageSwapCache(page
)) {
558 swp_entry_t swap
= { .val
= page_private(page
) };
559 __delete_from_swap_cache(page
);
560 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
561 swapcache_free(swap
, page
);
563 void (*freepage
)(struct page
*);
565 freepage
= mapping
->a_ops
->freepage
;
567 __delete_from_page_cache(page
);
568 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
569 mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page
);
571 if (freepage
!= NULL
)
578 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
583 * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if
584 * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was
585 * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on
588 int remove_mapping(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct page
*page
)
590 if (__remove_mapping(mapping
, page
)) {
592 * Unfreezing the refcount with 1 rather than 2 effectively
593 * drops the pagecache ref for us without requiring another
596 page_unfreeze_refs(page
, 1);
603 * putback_lru_page - put previously isolated page onto appropriate LRU list
604 * @page: page to be put back to appropriate lru list
606 * Add previously isolated @page to appropriate LRU list.
607 * Page may still be unevictable for other reasons.
609 * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
611 void putback_lru_page(struct page
*page
)
614 int was_unevictable
= PageUnevictable(page
);
616 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
));
619 ClearPageUnevictable(page
);
621 if (page_evictable(page
)) {
623 * For evictable pages, we can use the cache.
624 * In event of a race, worst case is we end up with an
625 * unevictable page on [in]active list.
626 * We know how to handle that.
628 is_unevictable
= false;
632 * Put unevictable pages directly on zone's unevictable
635 is_unevictable
= true;
636 add_page_to_unevictable_list(page
);
638 * When racing with an mlock or AS_UNEVICTABLE clearing
639 * (page is unlocked) make sure that if the other thread
640 * does not observe our setting of PG_lru and fails
641 * isolation/check_move_unevictable_pages,
642 * we see PG_mlocked/AS_UNEVICTABLE cleared below and move
643 * the page back to the evictable list.
645 * The other side is TestClearPageMlocked() or shmem_lock().
651 * page's status can change while we move it among lru. If an evictable
652 * page is on unevictable list, it never be freed. To avoid that,
653 * check after we added it to the list, again.
655 if (is_unevictable
&& page_evictable(page
)) {
656 if (!isolate_lru_page(page
)) {
660 /* This means someone else dropped this page from LRU
661 * So, it will be freed or putback to LRU again. There is
662 * nothing to do here.
666 if (was_unevictable
&& !is_unevictable
)
667 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED
);
668 else if (!was_unevictable
&& is_unevictable
)
669 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGCULLED
);
671 put_page(page
); /* drop ref from isolate */
674 enum page_references
{
676 PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
,
681 static enum page_references
page_check_references(struct page
*page
,
682 struct scan_control
*sc
)
684 int referenced_ptes
, referenced_page
;
685 unsigned long vm_flags
;
687 referenced_ptes
= page_referenced(page
, 1, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
689 referenced_page
= TestClearPageReferenced(page
);
692 * Mlock lost the isolation race with us. Let try_to_unmap()
693 * move the page to the unevictable list.
695 if (vm_flags
& VM_LOCKED
)
696 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM
;
698 if (referenced_ptes
) {
699 if (PageSwapBacked(page
))
700 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
;
702 * All mapped pages start out with page table
703 * references from the instantiating fault, so we need
704 * to look twice if a mapped file page is used more
707 * Mark it and spare it for another trip around the
708 * inactive list. Another page table reference will
709 * lead to its activation.
711 * Note: the mark is set for activated pages as well
712 * so that recently deactivated but used pages are
715 SetPageReferenced(page
);
717 if (referenced_page
|| referenced_ptes
> 1)
718 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
;
721 * Activate file-backed executable pages after first usage.
723 if (vm_flags
& VM_EXEC
)
724 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
;
729 /* Reclaim if clean, defer dirty pages to writeback */
730 if (referenced_page
&& !PageSwapBacked(page
))
731 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
;
733 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM
;
736 /* Check if a page is dirty or under writeback */
737 static void page_check_dirty_writeback(struct page
*page
,
738 bool *dirty
, bool *writeback
)
740 struct address_space
*mapping
;
743 * Anonymous pages are not handled by flushers and must be written
744 * from reclaim context. Do not stall reclaim based on them
746 if (!page_is_file_cache(page
)) {
752 /* By default assume that the page flags are accurate */
753 *dirty
= PageDirty(page
);
754 *writeback
= PageWriteback(page
);
756 /* Verify dirty/writeback state if the filesystem supports it */
757 if (!page_has_private(page
))
760 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
761 if (mapping
&& mapping
->a_ops
->is_dirty_writeback
)
762 mapping
->a_ops
->is_dirty_writeback(page
, dirty
, writeback
);
766 * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
768 static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head
*page_list
,
770 struct scan_control
*sc
,
771 enum ttu_flags ttu_flags
,
772 unsigned long *ret_nr_dirty
,
773 unsigned long *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty
,
774 unsigned long *ret_nr_congested
,
775 unsigned long *ret_nr_writeback
,
776 unsigned long *ret_nr_immediate
,
779 LIST_HEAD(ret_pages
);
780 LIST_HEAD(free_pages
);
782 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty
= 0;
783 unsigned long nr_dirty
= 0;
784 unsigned long nr_congested
= 0;
785 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
= 0;
786 unsigned long nr_writeback
= 0;
787 unsigned long nr_immediate
= 0;
791 mem_cgroup_uncharge_start();
792 while (!list_empty(page_list
)) {
793 struct address_space
*mapping
;
796 enum page_references references
= PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
;
797 bool dirty
, writeback
;
801 page
= lru_to_page(page_list
);
802 list_del(&page
->lru
);
804 if (!trylock_page(page
))
807 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page
));
808 VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page
) != zone
);
812 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page
)))
815 if (!sc
->may_unmap
&& page_mapped(page
))
818 /* Double the slab pressure for mapped and swapcache pages */
819 if (page_mapped(page
) || PageSwapCache(page
))
822 may_enter_fs
= (sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_FS
) ||
823 (PageSwapCache(page
) && (sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_IO
));
826 * The number of dirty pages determines if a zone is marked
827 * reclaim_congested which affects wait_iff_congested. kswapd
828 * will stall and start writing pages if the tail of the LRU
829 * is all dirty unqueued pages.
831 page_check_dirty_writeback(page
, &dirty
, &writeback
);
832 if (dirty
|| writeback
)
835 if (dirty
&& !writeback
)
839 * Treat this page as congested if the underlying BDI is or if
840 * pages are cycling through the LRU so quickly that the
841 * pages marked for immediate reclaim are making it to the
842 * end of the LRU a second time.
844 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
845 if ((mapping
&& bdi_write_congested(mapping
->backing_dev_info
)) ||
846 (writeback
&& PageReclaim(page
)))
850 * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there
851 * are three cases to consider.
853 * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages
854 * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and
855 * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued
856 * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the
857 * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an
858 * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the
859 * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead
860 * note that the LRU is being scanned too quickly and the
861 * caller can stall after page list has been processed.
863 * 2) Global reclaim encounters a page, memcg encounters a
864 * page that is not marked for immediate reclaim or
865 * the caller does not have __GFP_IO. In this case mark
866 * the page for immediate reclaim and continue scanning.
868 * __GFP_IO is checked because a loop driver thread might
869 * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for
870 * which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off
871 * __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought
872 * would probably show more reasons.
874 * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into the
875 * FS, just waiting on its writeback completion. Worryingly,
876 * ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with
877 * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so testing
878 * may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them.
880 * 3) memcg encounters a page that is not already marked
881 * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages
882 * throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many
883 * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to
884 * reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete.
886 if (PageWriteback(page
)) {
888 if (current_is_kswapd() &&
890 zone_is_reclaim_writeback(zone
)) {
895 } else if (global_reclaim(sc
) ||
896 !PageReclaim(page
) || !(sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_IO
)) {
898 * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
899 * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then
900 * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted
901 * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter
902 * enough to care. What we do want is for this
903 * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg
904 * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will
905 * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM;
906 * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim.
908 SetPageReclaim(page
);
915 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
920 references
= page_check_references(page
, sc
);
922 switch (references
) {
923 case PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
:
924 goto activate_locked
;
927 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM
:
928 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
:
929 ; /* try to reclaim the page below */
933 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
934 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
936 if (PageAnon(page
) && !PageSwapCache(page
)) {
937 if (!(sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_IO
))
939 if (!add_to_swap(page
, page_list
))
940 goto activate_locked
;
943 /* Adding to swap updated mapping */
944 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
948 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
949 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
951 if (page_mapped(page
) && mapping
) {
952 switch (try_to_unmap(page
, ttu_flags
)) {
954 goto activate_locked
;
960 ; /* try to free the page below */
964 if (PageDirty(page
)) {
966 * Only kswapd can writeback filesystem pages to
967 * avoid risk of stack overflow but only writeback
968 * if many dirty pages have been encountered.
970 if (page_is_file_cache(page
) &&
971 (!current_is_kswapd() ||
972 !zone_is_reclaim_dirty(zone
))) {
974 * Immediately reclaim when written back.
975 * Similar in principal to deactivate_page()
976 * except we already have the page isolated
977 * and know it's dirty
979 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE
);
980 SetPageReclaim(page
);
985 if (references
== PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
)
989 if (!sc
->may_writepage
)
992 /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
993 switch (pageout(page
, mapping
, sc
)) {
997 goto activate_locked
;
999 if (PageWriteback(page
))
1001 if (PageDirty(page
))
1005 * A synchronous write - probably a ramdisk. Go
1006 * ahead and try to reclaim the page.
1008 if (!trylock_page(page
))
1010 if (PageDirty(page
) || PageWriteback(page
))
1012 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
1014 ; /* try to free the page below */
1019 * If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
1020 * associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
1023 * We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
1024 * try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
1025 * possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
1026 * clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
1027 * buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
1028 * will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
1029 * try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
1030 * drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
1032 * Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
1033 * the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
1034 * truncate_complete_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
1035 * and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
1036 * process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
1037 * Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
1039 if (page_has_private(page
)) {
1040 if (!try_to_release_page(page
, sc
->gfp_mask
))
1041 goto activate_locked
;
1042 if (!mapping
&& page_count(page
) == 1) {
1044 if (put_page_testzero(page
))
1048 * rare race with speculative reference.
1049 * the speculative reference will free
1050 * this page shortly, so we may
1051 * increment nr_reclaimed here (and
1052 * leave it off the LRU).
1060 if (!mapping
|| !__remove_mapping(mapping
, page
))
1064 * At this point, we have no other references and there is
1065 * no way to pick any more up (removed from LRU, removed
1066 * from pagecache). Can use non-atomic bitops now (and
1067 * we obviously don't have to worry about waking up a process
1068 * waiting on the page lock, because there are no references.
1070 __clear_page_locked(page
);
1075 * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would
1076 * appear not as the counts should be low
1078 list_add(&page
->lru
, &free_pages
);
1082 if (PageSwapCache(page
))
1083 try_to_free_swap(page
);
1085 putback_lru_page(page
);
1089 /* Not a candidate for swapping, so reclaim swap space. */
1090 if (PageSwapCache(page
) && vm_swap_full())
1091 try_to_free_swap(page
);
1092 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page
));
1093 SetPageActive(page
);
1098 list_add(&page
->lru
, &ret_pages
);
1099 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
) || PageUnevictable(page
));
1102 free_hot_cold_page_list(&free_pages
, 1);
1104 list_splice(&ret_pages
, page_list
);
1105 count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE
, pgactivate
);
1106 mem_cgroup_uncharge_end();
1107 *ret_nr_dirty
+= nr_dirty
;
1108 *ret_nr_congested
+= nr_congested
;
1109 *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty
+= nr_unqueued_dirty
;
1110 *ret_nr_writeback
+= nr_writeback
;
1111 *ret_nr_immediate
+= nr_immediate
;
1112 return nr_reclaimed
;
1115 unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone
*zone
,
1116 struct list_head
*page_list
)
1118 struct scan_control sc
= {
1119 .gfp_mask
= GFP_KERNEL
,
1120 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
1123 unsigned long ret
, dummy1
, dummy2
, dummy3
, dummy4
, dummy5
;
1124 struct page
*page
, *next
;
1125 LIST_HEAD(clean_pages
);
1127 list_for_each_entry_safe(page
, next
, page_list
, lru
) {
1128 if (page_is_file_cache(page
) && !PageDirty(page
)) {
1129 ClearPageActive(page
);
1130 list_move(&page
->lru
, &clean_pages
);
1134 ret
= shrink_page_list(&clean_pages
, zone
, &sc
,
1135 TTU_UNMAP
|TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS
,
1136 &dummy1
, &dummy2
, &dummy3
, &dummy4
, &dummy5
, true);
1137 list_splice(&clean_pages
, page_list
);
1138 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_FILE
, -ret
);
1143 * Attempt to remove the specified page from its LRU. Only take this page
1144 * if it is of the appropriate PageActive status. Pages which are being
1145 * freed elsewhere are also ignored.
1147 * page: page to consider
1148 * mode: one of the LRU isolation modes defined above
1150 * returns 0 on success, -ve errno on failure.
1152 int __isolate_lru_page(struct page
*page
, isolate_mode_t mode
)
1156 /* Only take pages on the LRU. */
1160 /* Compaction should not handle unevictable pages but CMA can do so */
1161 if (PageUnevictable(page
) && !(mode
& ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE
))
1167 * To minimise LRU disruption, the caller can indicate that it only
1168 * wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
1169 * blocking - clean pages for the most part.
1171 * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
1172 * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
1174 * ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
1175 * that it is possible to migrate without blocking
1177 if (mode
& (ISOLATE_CLEAN
|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE
)) {
1178 /* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
1179 if (PageWriteback(page
))
1182 if (PageDirty(page
)) {
1183 struct address_space
*mapping
;
1185 /* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
1186 if (mode
& ISOLATE_CLEAN
)
1190 * Only pages without mappings or that have a
1191 * ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
1194 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
1195 if (mapping
&& !mapping
->a_ops
->migratepage
)
1200 if ((mode
& ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
) && page_mapped(page
))
1203 if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page
))) {
1205 * Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
1206 * sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
1207 * page release code relies on it.
1217 * zone->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that
1218 * shrink the lists perform better by taking out a batch of pages
1219 * and working on them outside the LRU lock.
1221 * For pagecache intensive workloads, this function is the hottest
1222 * spot in the kernel (apart from copy_*_user functions).
1224 * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function.
1226 * @nr_to_scan: The number of pages to look through on the list.
1227 * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from.
1228 * @dst: The temp list to put pages on to.
1229 * @nr_scanned: The number of pages that were scanned.
1230 * @sc: The scan_control struct for this reclaim session
1231 * @mode: One of the LRU isolation modes
1232 * @lru: LRU list id for isolating
1234 * returns how many pages were moved onto *@dst.
1236 static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan
,
1237 struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct list_head
*dst
,
1238 unsigned long *nr_scanned
, struct scan_control
*sc
,
1239 isolate_mode_t mode
, enum lru_list lru
)
1241 struct list_head
*src
= &lruvec
->lists
[lru
];
1242 unsigned long nr_taken
= 0;
1245 for (scan
= 0; scan
< nr_to_scan
&& !list_empty(src
); scan
++) {
1249 page
= lru_to_page(src
);
1250 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page
, src
, flags
);
1252 VM_BUG_ON(!PageLRU(page
));
1254 switch (__isolate_lru_page(page
, mode
)) {
1256 nr_pages
= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1257 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
, -nr_pages
);
1258 list_move(&page
->lru
, dst
);
1259 nr_taken
+= nr_pages
;
1263 /* else it is being freed elsewhere */
1264 list_move(&page
->lru
, src
);
1273 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc
->order
, nr_to_scan
, scan
,
1274 nr_taken
, mode
, is_file_lru(lru
));
1279 * isolate_lru_page - tries to isolate a page from its LRU list
1280 * @page: page to isolate from its LRU list
1282 * Isolates a @page from an LRU list, clears PageLRU and adjusts the
1283 * vmstat statistic corresponding to whatever LRU list the page was on.
1285 * Returns 0 if the page was removed from an LRU list.
1286 * Returns -EBUSY if the page was not on an LRU list.
1288 * The returned page will have PageLRU() cleared. If it was found on
1289 * the active list, it will have PageActive set. If it was found on
1290 * the unevictable list, it will have the PageUnevictable bit set. That flag
1291 * may need to be cleared by the caller before letting the page go.
1293 * The vmstat statistic corresponding to the list on which the page was
1294 * found will be decremented.
1297 * (1) Must be called with an elevated refcount on the page. This is a
1298 * fundamentnal difference from isolate_lru_pages (which is called
1299 * without a stable reference).
1300 * (2) the lru_lock must not be held.
1301 * (3) interrupts must be enabled.
1303 int isolate_lru_page(struct page
*page
)
1307 VM_BUG_ON(!page_count(page
));
1309 if (PageLRU(page
)) {
1310 struct zone
*zone
= page_zone(page
);
1311 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
1313 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1314 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
1315 if (PageLRU(page
)) {
1316 int lru
= page_lru(page
);
1319 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1322 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1328 * A direct reclaimer may isolate SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages from the LRU list and
1329 * then get resheduled. When there are massive number of tasks doing page
1330 * allocation, such sleeping direct reclaimers may keep piling up on each CPU,
1331 * the LRU list will go small and be scanned faster than necessary, leading to
1332 * unnecessary swapping, thrashing and OOM.
1334 static int too_many_isolated(struct zone
*zone
, int file
,
1335 struct scan_control
*sc
)
1337 unsigned long inactive
, isolated
;
1339 if (current_is_kswapd())
1342 if (!global_reclaim(sc
))
1346 inactive
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
1347 isolated
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_FILE
);
1349 inactive
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
1350 isolated
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
);
1354 * GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers are allowed to isolate more pages, so they
1355 * won't get blocked by normal direct-reclaimers, forming a circular
1358 if ((sc
->gfp_mask
& GFP_IOFS
) == GFP_IOFS
)
1361 return isolated
> inactive
;
1364 static noinline_for_stack
void
1365 putback_inactive_pages(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct list_head
*page_list
)
1367 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1368 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1369 LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free
);
1372 * Put back any unfreeable pages.
1374 while (!list_empty(page_list
)) {
1375 struct page
*page
= lru_to_page(page_list
);
1378 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
));
1379 list_del(&page
->lru
);
1380 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page
))) {
1381 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1382 putback_lru_page(page
);
1383 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1387 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
1390 lru
= page_lru(page
);
1391 add_page_to_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1393 if (is_active_lru(lru
)) {
1394 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1395 int numpages
= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1396 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[file
] += numpages
;
1398 if (put_page_testzero(page
)) {
1399 __ClearPageLRU(page
);
1400 __ClearPageActive(page
);
1401 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1403 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page
))) {
1404 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1405 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page
))(page
);
1406 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1408 list_add(&page
->lru
, &pages_to_free
);
1413 * To save our caller's stack, now use input list for pages to free.
1415 list_splice(&pages_to_free
, page_list
);
1419 * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone(). It returns the number
1420 * of reclaimed pages
1422 static noinline_for_stack
unsigned long
1423 shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan
, struct lruvec
*lruvec
,
1424 struct scan_control
*sc
, enum lru_list lru
)
1426 LIST_HEAD(page_list
);
1427 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
1428 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
= 0;
1429 unsigned long nr_taken
;
1430 unsigned long nr_dirty
= 0;
1431 unsigned long nr_congested
= 0;
1432 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty
= 0;
1433 unsigned long nr_writeback
= 0;
1434 unsigned long nr_immediate
= 0;
1435 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode
= 0;
1436 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1437 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1438 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1440 while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(zone
, file
, sc
))) {
1441 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1443 /* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
1444 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
1445 return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
;
1451 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
;
1452 if (!sc
->may_writepage
)
1453 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_CLEAN
;
1455 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1457 nr_taken
= isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, &page_list
,
1458 &nr_scanned
, sc
, isolate_mode
, lru
);
1460 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
, -nr_taken
);
1461 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, nr_taken
);
1463 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1464 zone
->pages_scanned
+= nr_scanned
;
1465 if (current_is_kswapd())
1466 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD
, zone
, nr_scanned
);
1468 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT
, zone
, nr_scanned
);
1470 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1475 nr_reclaimed
= shrink_page_list(&page_list
, zone
, sc
, TTU_UNMAP
,
1476 &nr_dirty
, &nr_unqueued_dirty
, &nr_congested
,
1477 &nr_writeback
, &nr_immediate
,
1480 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1482 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[file
] += nr_taken
;
1484 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1485 if (current_is_kswapd())
1486 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_KSWAPD
, zone
,
1489 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_DIRECT
, zone
,
1493 putback_inactive_pages(lruvec
, &page_list
);
1495 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, -nr_taken
);
1497 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1499 free_hot_cold_page_list(&page_list
, 1);
1502 * If reclaim is isolating dirty pages under writeback, it implies
1503 * that the long-lived page allocation rate is exceeding the page
1504 * laundering rate. Either the global limits are not being effective
1505 * at throttling processes due to the page distribution throughout
1506 * zones or there is heavy usage of a slow backing device. The
1507 * only option is to throttle from reclaim context which is not ideal
1508 * as there is no guarantee the dirtying process is throttled in the
1509 * same way balance_dirty_pages() manages.
1511 * Once a zone is flagged ZONE_WRITEBACK, kswapd will count the number
1512 * of pages under pages flagged for immediate reclaim and stall if any
1513 * are encountered in the nr_immediate check below.
1515 if (nr_writeback
&& nr_writeback
== nr_taken
)
1516 zone_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_WRITEBACK
);
1519 * memcg will stall in page writeback so only consider forcibly
1520 * stalling for global reclaim
1522 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1524 * Tag a zone as congested if all the dirty pages scanned were
1525 * backed by a congested BDI and wait_iff_congested will stall.
1527 if (nr_dirty
&& nr_dirty
== nr_congested
)
1528 zone_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_CONGESTED
);
1531 * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
1532 * implies that flushers are not keeping up. In this case, flag
1533 * the zone ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY and kswapd will start writing
1534 * pages from reclaim context. It will forcibly stall in the
1537 if (nr_unqueued_dirty
== nr_taken
)
1538 zone_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY
);
1541 * In addition, if kswapd scans pages marked marked for
1542 * immediate reclaim and under writeback (nr_immediate), it
1543 * implies that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
1544 * they are written so also forcibly stall.
1546 if (nr_unqueued_dirty
== nr_taken
|| nr_immediate
)
1547 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1551 * Stall direct reclaim for IO completions if underlying BDIs or zone
1552 * is congested. Allow kswapd to continue until it starts encountering
1553 * unqueued dirty pages or cycling through the LRU too quickly.
1555 if (!sc
->hibernation_mode
&& !current_is_kswapd())
1556 wait_iff_congested(zone
, BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1558 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive(zone
->zone_pgdat
->node_id
,
1560 nr_scanned
, nr_reclaimed
,
1562 trace_shrink_flags(file
));
1563 return nr_reclaimed
;
1567 * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
1569 * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
1570 * processes, from rmap.
1572 * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is
1573 * appropriate to hold zone->lru_lock across the whole operation. But if
1574 * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we
1575 * should drop zone->lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance
1576 * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them.
1577 * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because
1578 * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page.
1580 * The downside is that we have to touch page->_count against each page.
1581 * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
1584 static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec
*lruvec
,
1585 struct list_head
*list
,
1586 struct list_head
*pages_to_free
,
1589 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1590 unsigned long pgmoved
= 0;
1594 while (!list_empty(list
)) {
1595 page
= lru_to_page(list
);
1596 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
1598 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
));
1601 nr_pages
= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1602 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
, nr_pages
);
1603 list_move(&page
->lru
, &lruvec
->lists
[lru
]);
1604 pgmoved
+= nr_pages
;
1606 if (put_page_testzero(page
)) {
1607 __ClearPageLRU(page
);
1608 __ClearPageActive(page
);
1609 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1611 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page
))) {
1612 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1613 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page
))(page
);
1614 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1616 list_add(&page
->lru
, pages_to_free
);
1619 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
, pgmoved
);
1620 if (!is_active_lru(lru
))
1621 __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE
, pgmoved
);
1624 static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan
,
1625 struct lruvec
*lruvec
,
1626 struct scan_control
*sc
,
1629 unsigned long nr_taken
;
1630 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
1631 unsigned long vm_flags
;
1632 LIST_HEAD(l_hold
); /* The pages which were snipped off */
1633 LIST_HEAD(l_active
);
1634 LIST_HEAD(l_inactive
);
1636 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1637 unsigned long nr_rotated
= 0;
1638 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode
= 0;
1639 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1640 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1645 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
;
1646 if (!sc
->may_writepage
)
1647 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_CLEAN
;
1649 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1651 nr_taken
= isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, &l_hold
,
1652 &nr_scanned
, sc
, isolate_mode
, lru
);
1653 if (global_reclaim(sc
))
1654 zone
->pages_scanned
+= nr_scanned
;
1656 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[file
] += nr_taken
;
1658 __count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL
, zone
, nr_scanned
);
1659 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
, -nr_taken
);
1660 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, nr_taken
);
1661 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1663 while (!list_empty(&l_hold
)) {
1665 page
= lru_to_page(&l_hold
);
1666 list_del(&page
->lru
);
1668 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page
))) {
1669 putback_lru_page(page
);
1673 if (unlikely(buffer_heads_over_limit
)) {
1674 if (page_has_private(page
) && trylock_page(page
)) {
1675 if (page_has_private(page
))
1676 try_to_release_page(page
, 0);
1681 if (page_referenced(page
, 0, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
1683 nr_rotated
+= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1685 * Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
1686 * give them one more trip around the active list. So
1687 * that executable code get better chances to stay in
1688 * memory under moderate memory pressure. Anon pages
1689 * are not likely to be evicted by use-once streaming
1690 * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages,
1691 * so we ignore them here.
1693 if ((vm_flags
& VM_EXEC
) && page_is_file_cache(page
)) {
1694 list_add(&page
->lru
, &l_active
);
1699 ClearPageActive(page
); /* we are de-activating */
1700 list_add(&page
->lru
, &l_inactive
);
1704 * Move pages back to the lru list.
1706 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1708 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as rotated,
1709 * even though only some of them are actually re-activated. This
1710 * helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous pages in
1713 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[file
] += nr_rotated
;
1715 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec
, &l_active
, &l_hold
, lru
);
1716 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec
, &l_inactive
, &l_hold
, lru
- LRU_ACTIVE
);
1717 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, -nr_taken
);
1718 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1720 free_hot_cold_page_list(&l_hold
, 1);
1724 static int inactive_anon_is_low_global(struct zone
*zone
)
1726 unsigned long active
, inactive
;
1728 active
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_ANON
);
1729 inactive
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
1731 if (inactive
* zone
->inactive_ratio
< active
)
1738 * inactive_anon_is_low - check if anonymous pages need to be deactivated
1739 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1741 * Returns true if the zone does not have enough inactive anon pages,
1742 * meaning some active anon pages need to be deactivated.
1744 static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
)
1747 * If we don't have swap space, anonymous page deactivation
1750 if (!total_swap_pages
)
1753 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
1754 return mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
);
1756 return inactive_anon_is_low_global(lruvec_zone(lruvec
));
1759 static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
)
1766 * inactive_file_is_low - check if file pages need to be deactivated
1767 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1769 * When the system is doing streaming IO, memory pressure here
1770 * ensures that active file pages get deactivated, until more
1771 * than half of the file pages are on the inactive list.
1773 * Once we get to that situation, protect the system's working
1774 * set from being evicted by disabling active file page aging.
1776 * This uses a different ratio than the anonymous pages, because
1777 * the page cache uses a use-once replacement algorithm.
1779 static int inactive_file_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
)
1781 unsigned long inactive
;
1782 unsigned long active
;
1784 inactive
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
);
1785 active
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
);
1787 return active
> inactive
;
1790 static int inactive_list_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, enum lru_list lru
)
1792 if (is_file_lru(lru
))
1793 return inactive_file_is_low(lruvec
);
1795 return inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
);
1798 static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru
, unsigned long nr_to_scan
,
1799 struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
1801 if (is_active_lru(lru
)) {
1802 if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec
, lru
))
1803 shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, sc
, lru
);
1807 return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, sc
, lru
);
1810 static int vmscan_swappiness(struct scan_control
*sc
)
1812 if (global_reclaim(sc
))
1813 return vm_swappiness
;
1814 return mem_cgroup_swappiness(sc
->target_mem_cgroup
);
1825 * Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
1826 * scanned. The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
1827 * by looking at the fraction of the pages scanned we did rotate back
1828 * onto the active list instead of evict.
1830 * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
1831 * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
1833 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct scan_control
*sc
,
1836 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1838 u64 denominator
= 0; /* gcc */
1839 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1840 unsigned long anon_prio
, file_prio
;
1841 enum scan_balance scan_balance
;
1842 unsigned long anon
, file
, free
;
1843 bool force_scan
= false;
1844 unsigned long ap
, fp
;
1848 * If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0. This
1849 * results in no scanning on this priority and a potential
1850 * priority drop. Global direct reclaim can go to the next
1851 * zone and tends to have no problems. Global kswapd is for
1852 * zone balancing and it needs to scan a minimum amount. When
1853 * reclaiming for a memcg, a priority drop can cause high
1854 * latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
1857 if (current_is_kswapd() && !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
1859 if (!global_reclaim(sc
))
1862 /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
1863 if (!sc
->may_swap
|| (get_nr_swap_pages() <= 0)) {
1864 scan_balance
= SCAN_FILE
;
1869 * Global reclaim will swap to prevent OOM even with no
1870 * swappiness, but memcg users want to use this knob to
1871 * disable swapping for individual groups completely when
1872 * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be
1875 if (!global_reclaim(sc
) && !vmscan_swappiness(sc
)) {
1876 scan_balance
= SCAN_FILE
;
1881 * Do not apply any pressure balancing cleverness when the
1882 * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally
1883 * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping).
1885 if (!sc
->priority
&& vmscan_swappiness(sc
)) {
1886 scan_balance
= SCAN_EQUAL
;
1890 anon
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
) +
1891 get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
);
1892 file
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
) +
1893 get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
);
1896 * If it's foreseeable that reclaiming the file cache won't be
1897 * enough to get the zone back into a desirable shape, we have
1898 * to swap. Better start now and leave the - probably heavily
1899 * thrashing - remaining file pages alone.
1901 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1902 free
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FREE_PAGES
);
1903 if (unlikely(file
+ free
<= high_wmark_pages(zone
))) {
1904 scan_balance
= SCAN_ANON
;
1910 * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim
1911 * anything from the anonymous working set right now.
1913 if (!inactive_file_is_low(lruvec
)) {
1914 scan_balance
= SCAN_FILE
;
1918 scan_balance
= SCAN_FRACT
;
1921 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
1922 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
1924 anon_prio
= vmscan_swappiness(sc
);
1925 file_prio
= 200 - anon_prio
;
1928 * OK, so we have swap space and a fair amount of page cache
1929 * pages. We use the recently rotated / recently scanned
1930 * ratios to determine how valuable each cache is.
1932 * Because workloads change over time (and to avoid overflow)
1933 * we keep these statistics as a floating average, which ends
1934 * up weighing recent references more than old ones.
1936 * anon in [0], file in [1]
1938 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1939 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[0] > anon
/ 4)) {
1940 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[0] /= 2;
1941 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[0] /= 2;
1944 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[1] > file
/ 4)) {
1945 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[1] /= 2;
1946 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[1] /= 2;
1950 * The amount of pressure on anon vs file pages is inversely
1951 * proportional to the fraction of recently scanned pages on
1952 * each list that were recently referenced and in active use.
1954 ap
= anon_prio
* (reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[0] + 1);
1955 ap
/= reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[0] + 1;
1957 fp
= file_prio
* (reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[1] + 1);
1958 fp
/= reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[1] + 1;
1959 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1963 denominator
= ap
+ fp
+ 1;
1965 for_each_evictable_lru(lru
) {
1966 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1970 size
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
);
1971 scan
= size
>> sc
->priority
;
1973 if (!scan
&& force_scan
)
1974 scan
= min(size
, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
);
1976 switch (scan_balance
) {
1978 /* Scan lists relative to size */
1982 * Scan types proportional to swappiness and
1983 * their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
1985 scan
= div64_u64(scan
* fraction
[file
], denominator
);
1989 /* Scan one type exclusively */
1990 if ((scan_balance
== SCAN_FILE
) != file
)
1994 /* Look ma, no brain */
2002 * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
2004 static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2006 unsigned long nr
[NR_LRU_LISTS
];
2007 unsigned long targets
[NR_LRU_LISTS
];
2008 unsigned long nr_to_scan
;
2010 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
= 0;
2011 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim
= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
;
2012 struct blk_plug plug
;
2013 bool scan_adjusted
= false;
2015 get_scan_count(lruvec
, sc
, nr
);
2017 /* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */
2018 memcpy(targets
, nr
, sizeof(nr
));
2020 blk_start_plug(&plug
);
2021 while (nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
] || nr
[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
] ||
2022 nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
]) {
2023 unsigned long nr_anon
, nr_file
, percentage
;
2024 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
2026 for_each_evictable_lru(lru
) {
2028 nr_to_scan
= min(nr
[lru
], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
);
2029 nr
[lru
] -= nr_to_scan
;
2031 nr_reclaimed
+= shrink_list(lru
, nr_to_scan
,
2036 if (nr_reclaimed
< nr_to_reclaim
|| scan_adjusted
)
2040 * For global direct reclaim, reclaim only the number of pages
2041 * requested. Less care is taken to scan proportionally as it
2042 * is more important to minimise direct reclaim stall latency
2043 * than it is to properly age the LRU lists.
2045 if (global_reclaim(sc
) && !current_is_kswapd())
2049 * For kswapd and memcg, reclaim at least the number of pages
2050 * requested. Ensure that the anon and file LRUs shrink
2051 * proportionally what was requested by get_scan_count(). We
2052 * stop reclaiming one LRU and reduce the amount scanning
2053 * proportional to the original scan target.
2055 nr_file
= nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
] + nr
[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
];
2056 nr_anon
= nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
] + nr
[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
];
2058 if (nr_file
> nr_anon
) {
2059 unsigned long scan_target
= targets
[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
] +
2060 targets
[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
] + 1;
2062 percentage
= nr_anon
* 100 / scan_target
;
2064 unsigned long scan_target
= targets
[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
] +
2065 targets
[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
] + 1;
2067 percentage
= nr_file
* 100 / scan_target
;
2070 /* Stop scanning the smaller of the LRU */
2072 nr
[lru
+ LRU_ACTIVE
] = 0;
2075 * Recalculate the other LRU scan count based on its original
2076 * scan target and the percentage scanning already complete
2078 lru
= (lru
== LRU_FILE
) ? LRU_BASE
: LRU_FILE
;
2079 nr_scanned
= targets
[lru
] - nr
[lru
];
2080 nr
[lru
] = targets
[lru
] * (100 - percentage
) / 100;
2081 nr
[lru
] -= min(nr
[lru
], nr_scanned
);
2084 nr_scanned
= targets
[lru
] - nr
[lru
];
2085 nr
[lru
] = targets
[lru
] * (100 - percentage
) / 100;
2086 nr
[lru
] -= min(nr
[lru
], nr_scanned
);
2088 scan_adjusted
= true;
2090 blk_finish_plug(&plug
);
2091 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= nr_reclaimed
;
2094 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
2095 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
2097 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
))
2098 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
, lruvec
,
2099 sc
, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
);
2101 throttle_vm_writeout(sc
->gfp_mask
);
2104 /* Use reclaim/compaction for costly allocs or under memory pressure */
2105 static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct scan_control
*sc
)
2107 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
) && sc
->order
&&
2108 (sc
->order
> PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
||
2109 sc
->priority
< DEF_PRIORITY
- 2))
2116 * Reclaim/compaction is used for high-order allocation requests. It reclaims
2117 * order-0 pages before compacting the zone. should_continue_reclaim() returns
2118 * true if more pages should be reclaimed such that when the page allocator
2119 * calls try_to_compact_zone() that it will have enough free pages to succeed.
2120 * It will give up earlier than that if there is difficulty reclaiming pages.
2122 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone
*zone
,
2123 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
,
2124 unsigned long nr_scanned
,
2125 struct scan_control
*sc
)
2127 unsigned long pages_for_compaction
;
2128 unsigned long inactive_lru_pages
;
2130 /* If not in reclaim/compaction mode, stop */
2131 if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc
))
2134 /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
2135 if (sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_REPEAT
) {
2137 * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
2138 * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
2139 * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
2140 * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
2142 if (!nr_reclaimed
&& !nr_scanned
)
2146 * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
2147 * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
2148 * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
2149 * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
2150 * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
2151 * the resulting allocation attempt fails
2158 * If we have not reclaimed enough pages for compaction and the
2159 * inactive lists are large enough, continue reclaiming
2161 pages_for_compaction
= (2UL << sc
->order
);
2162 inactive_lru_pages
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
2163 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
2164 inactive_lru_pages
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
2165 if (sc
->nr_reclaimed
< pages_for_compaction
&&
2166 inactive_lru_pages
> pages_for_compaction
)
2169 /* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
2170 switch (compaction_suitable(zone
, sc
->order
)) {
2171 case COMPACT_PARTIAL
:
2172 case COMPACT_CONTINUE
:
2180 __shrink_zone(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
, bool soft_reclaim
)
2182 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
, nr_scanned
;
2183 int groups_scanned
= 0;
2186 struct mem_cgroup
*root
= sc
->target_mem_cgroup
;
2187 struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie reclaim
= {
2189 .priority
= sc
->priority
,
2191 struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
= NULL
;
2192 mem_cgroup_iter_filter filter
= (soft_reclaim
) ?
2193 mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible
: NULL
;
2195 nr_reclaimed
= sc
->nr_reclaimed
;
2196 nr_scanned
= sc
->nr_scanned
;
2198 while ((memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter_cond(root
, memcg
, &reclaim
, filter
))) {
2199 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
2202 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone
, memcg
);
2204 shrink_lruvec(lruvec
, sc
);
2207 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
2208 * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
2211 * Limit reclaim, on the other hand, only cares about
2212 * nr_to_reclaim pages to be reclaimed and it will
2213 * retry with decreasing priority if one round over the
2214 * whole hierarchy is not sufficient.
2216 if (!global_reclaim(sc
) &&
2217 sc
->nr_reclaimed
>= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
) {
2218 mem_cgroup_iter_break(root
, memcg
);
2223 vmpressure(sc
->gfp_mask
, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
2224 sc
->nr_scanned
- nr_scanned
,
2225 sc
->nr_reclaimed
- nr_reclaimed
);
2227 } while (should_continue_reclaim(zone
, sc
->nr_reclaimed
- nr_reclaimed
,
2228 sc
->nr_scanned
- nr_scanned
, sc
));
2230 return groups_scanned
;
2234 static void shrink_zone(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2236 bool do_soft_reclaim
= mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim(sc
);
2237 unsigned long nr_scanned
= sc
->nr_scanned
;
2240 scanned_groups
= __shrink_zone(zone
, sc
, do_soft_reclaim
);
2242 * memcg iterator might race with other reclaimer or start from
2243 * a incomplete tree walk so the tree walk in __shrink_zone
2244 * might have missed groups that are above the soft limit. Try
2245 * another loop to catch up with others. Do it just once to
2246 * prevent from reclaim latencies when other reclaimers always
2249 if (do_soft_reclaim
&& !scanned_groups
)
2250 __shrink_zone(zone
, sc
, do_soft_reclaim
);
2253 * No group is over the soft limit or those that are do not have
2254 * pages in the zone we are reclaiming so we have to reclaim everybody
2256 if (do_soft_reclaim
&& (sc
->nr_scanned
== nr_scanned
)) {
2257 __shrink_zone(zone
, sc
, false);
2262 /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
2263 static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2265 unsigned long balance_gap
, watermark
;
2268 /* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
2269 if (sc
->order
<= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
)
2273 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
2274 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
2275 * there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
2276 * a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
2278 balance_gap
= min(low_wmark_pages(zone
),
2279 (zone
->managed_pages
+ KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
-1) /
2280 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
);
2281 watermark
= high_wmark_pages(zone
) + balance_gap
+ (2UL << sc
->order
);
2282 watermark_ok
= zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone
, 0, watermark
, 0, 0);
2285 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
2286 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
2288 if (compaction_deferred(zone
, sc
->order
))
2289 return watermark_ok
;
2291 /* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
2292 if (!compaction_suitable(zone
, sc
->order
))
2295 return watermark_ok
;
2299 * This is the direct reclaim path, for page-allocating processes. We only
2300 * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
2303 * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone).
2305 * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
2307 * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones
2308 * must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min'
2309 * zone defense algorithm.
2311 * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
2312 * scan then give up on it.
2314 * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
2315 * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
2316 * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
2319 static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist
*zonelist
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2323 bool aborted_reclaim
= false;
2326 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
2327 * allowed level, force direct reclaim to scan the highmem zone as
2328 * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads
2330 if (buffer_heads_over_limit
)
2331 sc
->gfp_mask
|= __GFP_HIGHMEM
;
2333 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone
, z
, zonelist
,
2334 gfp_zone(sc
->gfp_mask
), sc
->nodemask
) {
2335 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2338 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
2341 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
2342 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
2344 if (sc
->priority
!= DEF_PRIORITY
&&
2345 !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
2346 continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
2347 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
)) {
2349 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
2350 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
2351 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
2352 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
2353 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
2354 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
2357 if (compaction_ready(zone
, sc
)) {
2358 aborted_reclaim
= true;
2362 /* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
2365 shrink_zone(zone
, sc
);
2368 return aborted_reclaim
;
2371 /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
2372 static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist
*zonelist
,
2373 struct scan_control
*sc
)
2378 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone
, z
, zonelist
,
2379 gfp_zone(sc
->gfp_mask
), sc
->nodemask
) {
2380 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2382 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
2384 if (zone_reclaimable(zone
))
2392 * This is the main entry point to direct page reclaim.
2394 * If a full scan of the inactive list fails to free enough memory then we
2395 * are "out of memory" and something needs to be killed.
2397 * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
2398 * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
2399 * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit
2400 * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the
2401 * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not
2402 * work, and the allocation attempt will fail.
2404 * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
2405 * else, the number of pages reclaimed
2407 static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist
*zonelist
,
2408 struct scan_control
*sc
,
2409 struct shrink_control
*shrink
)
2411 unsigned long total_scanned
= 0;
2412 struct reclaim_state
*reclaim_state
= current
->reclaim_state
;
2415 unsigned long writeback_threshold
;
2416 bool aborted_reclaim
;
2418 delayacct_freepages_start();
2420 if (global_reclaim(sc
))
2421 count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL
);
2424 vmpressure_prio(sc
->gfp_mask
, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
2427 aborted_reclaim
= shrink_zones(zonelist
, sc
);
2430 * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from over limit
2431 * cgroups but do shrink slab at least once when aborting
2432 * reclaim for compaction to avoid unevenly scanning file/anon
2433 * LRU pages over slab pages.
2435 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
2436 unsigned long lru_pages
= 0;
2438 nodes_clear(shrink
->nodes_to_scan
);
2439 for_each_zone_zonelist(zone
, z
, zonelist
,
2440 gfp_zone(sc
->gfp_mask
)) {
2441 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
2444 lru_pages
+= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
);
2445 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone
),
2446 shrink
->nodes_to_scan
);
2449 shrink_slab(shrink
, sc
->nr_scanned
, lru_pages
);
2450 if (reclaim_state
) {
2451 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
;
2452 reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
= 0;
2455 total_scanned
+= sc
->nr_scanned
;
2456 if (sc
->nr_reclaimed
>= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
)
2460 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
2461 * writepage even in laptop mode.
2463 if (sc
->priority
< DEF_PRIORITY
- 2)
2464 sc
->may_writepage
= 1;
2467 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
2468 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
2469 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
2470 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
2471 * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
2473 writeback_threshold
= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
+ sc
->nr_to_reclaim
/ 2;
2474 if (total_scanned
> writeback_threshold
) {
2475 wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode
? 0 : total_scanned
,
2476 WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES
);
2477 sc
->may_writepage
= 1;
2479 } while (--sc
->priority
>= 0 && !aborted_reclaim
);
2482 delayacct_freepages_end();
2484 if (sc
->nr_reclaimed
)
2485 return sc
->nr_reclaimed
;
2488 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
2489 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
2492 if (oom_killer_disabled
)
2495 /* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
2496 if (aborted_reclaim
)
2499 /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
2500 if (global_reclaim(sc
) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist
, sc
))
2506 static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t
*pgdat
)
2509 unsigned long pfmemalloc_reserve
= 0;
2510 unsigned long free_pages
= 0;
2514 for (i
= 0; i
<= ZONE_NORMAL
; i
++) {
2515 zone
= &pgdat
->node_zones
[i
];
2516 pfmemalloc_reserve
+= min_wmark_pages(zone
);
2517 free_pages
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FREE_PAGES
);
2520 wmark_ok
= free_pages
> pfmemalloc_reserve
/ 2;
2522 /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */
2523 if (!wmark_ok
&& waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
)) {
2524 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= min(pgdat
->classzone_idx
,
2525 (enum zone_type
)ZONE_NORMAL
);
2526 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
);
2533 * Throttle direct reclaimers if backing storage is backed by the network
2534 * and the PFMEMALLOC reserve for the preferred node is getting dangerously
2535 * depleted. kswapd will continue to make progress and wake the processes
2536 * when the low watermark is reached.
2538 * Returns true if a fatal signal was delivered during throttling. If this
2539 * happens, the page allocator should not consider triggering the OOM killer.
2541 static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask
, struct zonelist
*zonelist
,
2542 nodemask_t
*nodemask
)
2545 int high_zoneidx
= gfp_zone(gfp_mask
);
2549 * Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly
2550 * responsible for cleaning pages necessary for reclaim to make forward
2551 * progress. kjournald for example may enter direct reclaim while
2552 * committing a transaction where throttling it could forcing other
2553 * processes to block on log_wait_commit().
2555 if (current
->flags
& PF_KTHREAD
)
2559 * If a fatal signal is pending, this process should not throttle.
2560 * It should return quickly so it can exit and free its memory
2562 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
2565 /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */
2566 first_zones_zonelist(zonelist
, high_zoneidx
, NULL
, &zone
);
2567 pgdat
= zone
->zone_pgdat
;
2568 if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
))
2571 /* Account for the throttling */
2572 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE
);
2575 * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it
2576 * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal
2577 * transaction in the case of a filesystem like ext[3|4]. In this case,
2578 * it is not safe to block on pfmemalloc_wait as kswapd could be
2579 * blocked waiting on the same lock. Instead, throttle for up to a
2580 * second before continuing.
2582 if (!(gfp_mask
& __GFP_FS
)) {
2583 wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
,
2584 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
), HZ
);
2589 /* Throttle until kswapd wakes the process */
2590 wait_event_killable(zone
->zone_pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
,
2591 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
));
2594 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
2601 unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist
*zonelist
, int order
,
2602 gfp_t gfp_mask
, nodemask_t
*nodemask
)
2604 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
2605 struct scan_control sc
= {
2606 .gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
= memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask
)),
2607 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2608 .nr_to_reclaim
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
2612 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
2613 .target_mem_cgroup
= NULL
,
2614 .nodemask
= nodemask
,
2616 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
2617 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
2621 * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal was delivered while throttled.
2622 * 1 is returned so that the page allocator does not OOM kill at this
2625 if (throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask
, zonelist
, nodemask
))
2628 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin(order
,
2632 nr_reclaimed
= do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist
, &sc
, &shrink
);
2634 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed
);
2636 return nr_reclaimed
;
2641 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
,
2642 gfp_t gfp_mask
, bool noswap
,
2644 unsigned long *nr_scanned
)
2646 struct scan_control sc
= {
2648 .nr_to_reclaim
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
2649 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2651 .may_swap
= !noswap
,
2654 .target_mem_cgroup
= memcg
,
2656 struct lruvec
*lruvec
= mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone
, memcg
);
2658 sc
.gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
& GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
) |
2659 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
& ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
);
2661 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin(sc
.order
,
2666 * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
2667 * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
2668 * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_zone from balance_pgdat
2669 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
2670 * the priority and make it zero.
2672 shrink_lruvec(lruvec
, &sc
);
2674 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc
.nr_reclaimed
);
2676 *nr_scanned
= sc
.nr_scanned
;
2677 return sc
.nr_reclaimed
;
2680 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
,
2684 struct zonelist
*zonelist
;
2685 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
2687 struct scan_control sc
= {
2688 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2690 .may_swap
= !noswap
,
2691 .nr_to_reclaim
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
2693 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
2694 .target_mem_cgroup
= memcg
,
2695 .nodemask
= NULL
, /* we don't care the placement */
2696 .gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
& GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
) |
2697 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
& ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
),
2699 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
2700 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
2704 * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
2705 * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
2706 * scan does not need to be the current node.
2708 nid
= mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(memcg
);
2710 zonelist
= NODE_DATA(nid
)->node_zonelists
;
2712 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin(0,
2716 nr_reclaimed
= do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist
, &sc
, &shrink
);
2718 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed
);
2720 return nr_reclaimed
;
2724 static void age_active_anon(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2726 struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
;
2728 if (!total_swap_pages
)
2731 memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter(NULL
, NULL
, NULL
);
2733 struct lruvec
*lruvec
= mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone
, memcg
);
2735 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
))
2736 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
, lruvec
,
2737 sc
, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
);
2739 memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter(NULL
, memcg
, NULL
);
2743 static bool zone_balanced(struct zone
*zone
, int order
,
2744 unsigned long balance_gap
, int classzone_idx
)
2746 if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone
, order
, high_wmark_pages(zone
) +
2747 balance_gap
, classzone_idx
, 0))
2750 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
) && order
&&
2751 !compaction_suitable(zone
, order
))
2758 * pgdat_balanced() is used when checking if a node is balanced.
2760 * For order-0, all zones must be balanced!
2762 * For high-order allocations only zones that meet watermarks and are in a
2763 * zone allowed by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The
2764 * total of balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by
2765 * classzone_idx for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to
2766 * be balanced for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are
2768 * The choice of 25% is due to
2769 * o a 16M DMA zone that is balanced will not balance a zone on any
2770 * reasonable sized machine
2771 * o On all other machines, the top zone must be at least a reasonable
2772 * percentage of the middle zones. For example, on 32-bit x86, highmem
2773 * would need to be at least 256M for it to be balance a whole node.
2774 * Similarly, on x86-64 the Normal zone would need to be at least 1G
2775 * to balance a node on its own. These seemed like reasonable ratios.
2777 static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
, int classzone_idx
)
2779 unsigned long managed_pages
= 0;
2780 unsigned long balanced_pages
= 0;
2783 /* Check the watermark levels */
2784 for (i
= 0; i
<= classzone_idx
; i
++) {
2785 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
2787 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2790 managed_pages
+= zone
->managed_pages
;
2793 * A special case here:
2795 * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
2796 * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
2797 * they must be considered balanced here as well!
2799 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone
)) {
2800 balanced_pages
+= zone
->managed_pages
;
2804 if (zone_balanced(zone
, order
, 0, i
))
2805 balanced_pages
+= zone
->managed_pages
;
2811 return balanced_pages
>= (managed_pages
>> 2);
2817 * Prepare kswapd for sleeping. This verifies that there are no processes
2818 * waiting in throttle_direct_reclaim() and that watermarks have been met.
2820 * Returns true if kswapd is ready to sleep
2822 static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
, long remaining
,
2825 /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
2830 * There is a potential race between when kswapd checks its watermarks
2831 * and a process gets throttled. There is also a potential race if
2832 * processes get throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits therby
2833 * balancing the zones that causes kswapd to miss a wakeup. If kswapd
2834 * is going to sleep, no process should be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait
2835 * so wake them now if necessary. If necessary, processes will wake
2836 * kswapd and get throttled again
2838 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
)) {
2839 wake_up(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
);
2843 return pgdat_balanced(pgdat
, order
, classzone_idx
);
2847 * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach
2848 * the high watermark.
2850 * Returns true if kswapd scanned at least the requested number of pages to
2851 * reclaim or if the lack of progress was due to pages under writeback.
2852 * This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be raised.
2854 static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone
*zone
,
2856 struct scan_control
*sc
,
2857 unsigned long lru_pages
,
2858 unsigned long *nr_attempted
)
2860 int testorder
= sc
->order
;
2861 unsigned long balance_gap
;
2862 struct reclaim_state
*reclaim_state
= current
->reclaim_state
;
2863 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
2864 .gfp_mask
= sc
->gfp_mask
,
2866 bool lowmem_pressure
;
2868 /* Reclaim above the high watermark. */
2869 sc
->nr_to_reclaim
= max(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
, high_wmark_pages(zone
));
2872 * Kswapd reclaims only single pages with compaction enabled. Trying
2873 * too hard to reclaim until contiguous free pages have become
2874 * available can hurt performance by evicting too much useful data
2875 * from memory. Do not reclaim more than needed for compaction.
2877 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
) && sc
->order
&&
2878 compaction_suitable(zone
, sc
->order
) !=
2883 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one zone has way too
2884 * many pages free already. The "too many pages" is defined as the
2885 * high wmark plus a "gap" where the gap is either the low
2886 * watermark or 1% of the zone, whichever is smaller.
2888 balance_gap
= min(low_wmark_pages(zone
),
2889 (zone
->managed_pages
+ KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
-1) /
2890 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
);
2893 * If there is no low memory pressure or the zone is balanced then no
2894 * reclaim is necessary
2896 lowmem_pressure
= (buffer_heads_over_limit
&& is_highmem(zone
));
2897 if (!lowmem_pressure
&& zone_balanced(zone
, testorder
,
2898 balance_gap
, classzone_idx
))
2901 shrink_zone(zone
, sc
);
2902 nodes_clear(shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
2903 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone
), shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
2905 reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
= 0;
2906 shrink_slab(&shrink
, sc
->nr_scanned
, lru_pages
);
2907 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
;
2909 /* Account for the number of pages attempted to reclaim */
2910 *nr_attempted
+= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
;
2912 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_WRITEBACK
);
2915 * If a zone reaches its high watermark, consider it to be no longer
2916 * congested. It's possible there are dirty pages backed by congested
2917 * BDIs but as pressure is relieved, speculatively avoid congestion
2920 if (zone_reclaimable(zone
) &&
2921 zone_balanced(zone
, testorder
, 0, classzone_idx
)) {
2922 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_CONGESTED
);
2923 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY
);
2926 return sc
->nr_scanned
>= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
;
2930 * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
2931 * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone).
2933 * Returns the final order kswapd was reclaiming at
2935 * There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
2936 * This can happen if the pages are all mlocked, or if they are all used by
2937 * device drivers (say, ZONE_DMA). Or if they are all in use by hugetlb.
2938 * What we do is to detect the case where all pages in the zone have been
2939 * scanned twice and there has been zero successful reclaim. Mark the zone as
2940 * dead and from now on, only perform a short scan. Basically we're polling
2941 * the zone for when the problem goes away.
2943 * kswapd scans the zones in the highmem->normal->dma direction. It skips
2944 * zones which have free_pages > high_wmark_pages(zone), but once a zone is
2945 * found to have free_pages <= high_wmark_pages(zone), we scan that zone and the
2946 * lower zones regardless of the number of free pages in the lower zones. This
2947 * interoperates with the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging
2948 * of pages is balanced across the zones.
2950 static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
,
2954 int end_zone
= 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
2955 struct scan_control sc
= {
2956 .gfp_mask
= GFP_KERNEL
,
2957 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
2960 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2962 .target_mem_cgroup
= NULL
,
2964 count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN
);
2967 unsigned long lru_pages
= 0;
2968 unsigned long nr_attempted
= 0;
2969 bool raise_priority
= true;
2970 bool pgdat_needs_compaction
= (order
> 0);
2972 sc
.nr_reclaimed
= 0;
2975 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
2976 * zone which needs scanning
2978 for (i
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1; i
>= 0; i
--) {
2979 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
2981 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2984 if (sc
.priority
!= DEF_PRIORITY
&&
2985 !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
2989 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give
2990 * pages a chance to be referenced before reclaiming.
2992 age_active_anon(zone
, &sc
);
2995 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine
2996 * exceeds the maximum allowed level and this node
2997 * has a highmem zone, force kswapd to reclaim from
2998 * it to relieve lowmem pressure.
3000 if (buffer_heads_over_limit
&& is_highmem_idx(i
)) {
3005 if (!zone_balanced(zone
, order
, 0, 0)) {
3010 * If balanced, clear the dirty and congested
3013 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_CONGESTED
);
3014 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY
);
3021 for (i
= 0; i
<= end_zone
; i
++) {
3022 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
3024 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
3027 lru_pages
+= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
);
3030 * If any zone is currently balanced then kswapd will
3031 * not call compaction as it is expected that the
3032 * necessary pages are already available.
3034 if (pgdat_needs_compaction
&&
3035 zone_watermark_ok(zone
, order
,
3036 low_wmark_pages(zone
),
3038 pgdat_needs_compaction
= false;
3042 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing writepage
3043 * even in laptop mode.
3045 if (sc
.priority
< DEF_PRIORITY
- 2)
3046 sc
.may_writepage
= 1;
3049 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
3050 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
3052 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
3053 * direction. This prevents the page allocator from allocating
3054 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
3055 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
3057 for (i
= 0; i
<= end_zone
; i
++) {
3058 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
3060 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
3063 if (sc
.priority
!= DEF_PRIORITY
&&
3064 !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
3070 * There should be no need to raise the scanning
3071 * priority if enough pages are already being scanned
3072 * that that high watermark would be met at 100%
3075 if (kswapd_shrink_zone(zone
, end_zone
, &sc
,
3076 lru_pages
, &nr_attempted
))
3077 raise_priority
= false;
3081 * If the low watermark is met there is no need for processes
3082 * to be throttled on pfmemalloc_wait as they should not be
3083 * able to safely make forward progress. Wake them
3085 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
) &&
3086 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
))
3087 wake_up(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
);
3090 * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced
3091 * for high-order allocations in all zones. If twice the
3092 * allocation size has been reclaimed and the zones are still
3093 * not balanced then recheck the watermarks at order-0 to
3094 * prevent kswapd reclaiming excessively. Assume that a
3095 * process requested a high-order can direct reclaim/compact.
3097 if (order
&& sc
.nr_reclaimed
>= 2UL << order
)
3098 order
= sc
.order
= 0;
3100 /* Check if kswapd should be suspending */
3101 if (try_to_freeze() || kthread_should_stop())
3105 * Compact if necessary and kswapd is reclaiming at least the
3106 * high watermark number of pages as requsted
3108 if (pgdat_needs_compaction
&& sc
.nr_reclaimed
> nr_attempted
)
3109 compact_pgdat(pgdat
, order
);
3112 * Raise priority if scanning rate is too low or there was no
3113 * progress in reclaiming pages
3115 if (raise_priority
|| !sc
.nr_reclaimed
)
3117 } while (sc
.priority
>= 1 &&
3118 !pgdat_balanced(pgdat
, order
, *classzone_idx
));
3122 * Return the order we were reclaiming at so prepare_kswapd_sleep()
3123 * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However,
3124 * if another caller entered the allocator slow path while kswapd
3125 * was awake, order will remain at the higher level
3127 *classzone_idx
= end_zone
;
3131 static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
, int classzone_idx
)
3136 if (freezing(current
) || kthread_should_stop())
3139 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
);
3141 /* Try to sleep for a short interval */
3142 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat
, order
, remaining
, classzone_idx
)) {
3143 remaining
= schedule_timeout(HZ
/10);
3144 finish_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
);
3145 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
);
3149 * After a short sleep, check if it was a premature sleep. If not, then
3150 * go fully to sleep until explicitly woken up.
3152 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat
, order
, remaining
, classzone_idx
)) {
3153 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat
->node_id
);
3156 * vmstat counters are not perfectly accurate and the estimated
3157 * value for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES can deviate from the
3158 * true value by nr_online_cpus * threshold. To avoid the zone
3159 * watermarks being breached while under pressure, we reduce the
3160 * per-cpu vmstat threshold while kswapd is awake and restore
3161 * them before going back to sleep.
3163 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat
, calculate_normal_threshold
);
3166 * Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to
3167 * isolate pages from and skips them in the future scanning.
3168 * When kswapd is going to sleep, it is reasonable to assume
3169 * that pages and compaction may succeed so reset the cache.
3171 reset_isolation_suitable(pgdat
);
3173 if (!kthread_should_stop())
3176 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat
, calculate_pressure_threshold
);
3179 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY
);
3181 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY
);
3183 finish_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
);
3187 * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
3188 * from the init process.
3190 * This basically trickles out pages so that we have _some_
3191 * free memory available even if there is no other activity
3192 * that frees anything up. This is needed for things like routing
3193 * etc, where we otherwise might have all activity going on in
3194 * asynchronous contexts that cannot page things out.
3196 * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators
3197 * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter.
3199 static int kswapd(void *p
)
3201 unsigned long order
, new_order
;
3202 unsigned balanced_order
;
3203 int classzone_idx
, new_classzone_idx
;
3204 int balanced_classzone_idx
;
3205 pg_data_t
*pgdat
= (pg_data_t
*)p
;
3206 struct task_struct
*tsk
= current
;
3208 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state
= {
3209 .reclaimed_slab
= 0,
3211 const struct cpumask
*cpumask
= cpumask_of_node(pgdat
->node_id
);
3213 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL
);
3215 if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask
))
3216 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk
, cpumask
);
3217 current
->reclaim_state
= &reclaim_state
;
3220 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
3221 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
3222 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
3223 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
3225 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
3226 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
3227 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
3228 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
3229 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
3231 tsk
->flags
|= PF_MEMALLOC
| PF_SWAPWRITE
| PF_KSWAPD
;
3234 order
= new_order
= 0;
3236 classzone_idx
= new_classzone_idx
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1;
3237 balanced_classzone_idx
= classzone_idx
;
3242 * If the last balance_pgdat was unsuccessful it's unlikely a
3243 * new request of a similar or harder type will succeed soon
3244 * so consider going to sleep on the basis we reclaimed at
3246 if (balanced_classzone_idx
>= new_classzone_idx
&&
3247 balanced_order
== new_order
) {
3248 new_order
= pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
;
3249 new_classzone_idx
= pgdat
->classzone_idx
;
3250 pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
= 0;
3251 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1;
3254 if (order
< new_order
|| classzone_idx
> new_classzone_idx
) {
3256 * Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
3257 * allocation or has tigher zone constraints
3260 classzone_idx
= new_classzone_idx
;
3262 kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat
, balanced_order
,
3263 balanced_classzone_idx
);
3264 order
= pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
;
3265 classzone_idx
= pgdat
->classzone_idx
;
3267 new_classzone_idx
= classzone_idx
;
3268 pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
= 0;
3269 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1;
3272 ret
= try_to_freeze();
3273 if (kthread_should_stop())
3277 * We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call balance_pgdat
3278 * after returning from the refrigerator
3281 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake(pgdat
->node_id
, order
);
3282 balanced_classzone_idx
= classzone_idx
;
3283 balanced_order
= balance_pgdat(pgdat
, order
,
3284 &balanced_classzone_idx
);
3288 current
->reclaim_state
= NULL
;
3293 * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
3295 void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone
*zone
, int order
, enum zone_type classzone_idx
)
3299 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
3302 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
3304 pgdat
= zone
->zone_pgdat
;
3305 if (pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
< order
) {
3306 pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
= order
;
3307 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= min(pgdat
->classzone_idx
, classzone_idx
);
3309 if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
))
3311 if (zone_balanced(zone
, order
, 0, 0))
3314 trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat
->node_id
, zone_idx(zone
), order
);
3315 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
);
3319 * The reclaimable count would be mostly accurate.
3320 * The less reclaimable pages may be
3321 * - mlocked pages, which will be moved to unevictable list when encountered
3322 * - mapped pages, which may require several travels to be reclaimed
3323 * - dirty pages, which is not "instantly" reclaimable
3325 unsigned long global_reclaimable_pages(void)
3329 nr
= global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE
) +
3330 global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
3332 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
3333 nr
+= global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON
) +
3334 global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
3339 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
3341 * Try to free `nr_to_reclaim' of memory, system-wide, and return the number of
3344 * Rather than trying to age LRUs the aim is to preserve the overall
3345 * LRU order by reclaiming preferentially
3346 * inactive > active > active referenced > active mapped
3348 unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim
)
3350 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state
;
3351 struct scan_control sc
= {
3352 .gfp_mask
= GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
,
3356 .nr_to_reclaim
= nr_to_reclaim
,
3357 .hibernation_mode
= 1,
3359 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
3361 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
3362 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
3364 struct zonelist
*zonelist
= node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), sc
.gfp_mask
);
3365 struct task_struct
*p
= current
;
3366 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
3368 p
->flags
|= PF_MEMALLOC
;
3369 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(sc
.gfp_mask
);
3370 reclaim_state
.reclaimed_slab
= 0;
3371 p
->reclaim_state
= &reclaim_state
;
3373 nr_reclaimed
= do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist
, &sc
, &shrink
);
3375 p
->reclaim_state
= NULL
;
3376 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3377 p
->flags
&= ~PF_MEMALLOC
;
3379 return nr_reclaimed
;
3381 #endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
3383 /* It's optimal to keep kswapds on the same CPUs as their memory, but
3384 not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
3385 away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
3386 restore their cpu bindings. */
3387 static int cpu_callback(struct notifier_block
*nfb
, unsigned long action
,
3392 if (action
== CPU_ONLINE
|| action
== CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN
) {
3393 for_each_node_state(nid
, N_MEMORY
) {
3394 pg_data_t
*pgdat
= NODE_DATA(nid
);
3395 const struct cpumask
*mask
;
3397 mask
= cpumask_of_node(pgdat
->node_id
);
3399 if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask
, mask
) < nr_cpu_ids
)
3400 /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
3401 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat
->kswapd
, mask
);
3408 * This kswapd start function will be called by init and node-hot-add.
3409 * On node-hot-add, kswapd will moved to proper cpus if cpus are hot-added.
3411 int kswapd_run(int nid
)
3413 pg_data_t
*pgdat
= NODE_DATA(nid
);
3419 pgdat
->kswapd
= kthread_run(kswapd
, pgdat
, "kswapd%d", nid
);
3420 if (IS_ERR(pgdat
->kswapd
)) {
3421 /* failure at boot is fatal */
3422 BUG_ON(system_state
== SYSTEM_BOOTING
);
3423 pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid
);
3424 ret
= PTR_ERR(pgdat
->kswapd
);
3425 pgdat
->kswapd
= NULL
;
3431 * Called by memory hotplug when all memory in a node is offlined. Caller must
3432 * hold lock_memory_hotplug().
3434 void kswapd_stop(int nid
)
3436 struct task_struct
*kswapd
= NODE_DATA(nid
)->kswapd
;
3439 kthread_stop(kswapd
);
3440 NODE_DATA(nid
)->kswapd
= NULL
;
3444 static int __init
kswapd_init(void)
3449 for_each_node_state(nid
, N_MEMORY
)
3451 hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback
, 0);
3455 module_init(kswapd_init
)
3461 * If non-zero call zone_reclaim when the number of free pages falls below
3464 int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly
;
3466 #define RECLAIM_OFF 0
3467 #define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0) /* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
3468 #define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1) /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
3469 #define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2) /* Swap pages out during reclaim */
3472 * Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
3473 * of a node considered for each zone_reclaim. 4 scans 1/16th of
3476 #define ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY 4
3479 * Percentage of pages in a zone that must be unmapped for zone_reclaim to
3482 int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio
= 1;
3485 * If the number of slab pages in a zone grows beyond this percentage then
3486 * slab reclaim needs to occur.
3488 int sysctl_min_slab_ratio
= 5;
3490 static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone
*zone
)
3492 unsigned long file_mapped
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_MAPPED
);
3493 unsigned long file_lru
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
) +
3494 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_FILE
);
3497 * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than
3498 * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because
3499 * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED
3501 return (file_lru
> file_mapped
) ? (file_lru
- file_mapped
) : 0;
3504 /* Work out how many page cache pages we can reclaim in this reclaim_mode */
3505 static long zone_pagecache_reclaimable(struct zone
*zone
)
3507 long nr_pagecache_reclaimable
;
3511 * If RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then all file pages are considered
3512 * potentially reclaimable. Otherwise, we have to worry about
3513 * pages like swapcache and zone_unmapped_file_pages() provides
3516 if (zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_SWAP
)
3517 nr_pagecache_reclaimable
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_PAGES
);
3519 nr_pagecache_reclaimable
= zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone
);
3521 /* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */
3522 if (!(zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_WRITE
))
3523 delta
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
3525 /* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */
3526 if (unlikely(delta
> nr_pagecache_reclaimable
))
3527 delta
= nr_pagecache_reclaimable
;
3529 return nr_pagecache_reclaimable
- delta
;
3533 * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
3535 static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone
*zone
, gfp_t gfp_mask
, unsigned int order
)
3537 /* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */
3538 const unsigned long nr_pages
= 1 << order
;
3539 struct task_struct
*p
= current
;
3540 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state
;
3541 struct scan_control sc
= {
3542 .may_writepage
= !!(zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_WRITE
),
3543 .may_unmap
= !!(zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_SWAP
),
3545 .nr_to_reclaim
= max(nr_pages
, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
),
3546 .gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
= memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask
)),
3548 .priority
= ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY
,
3550 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
3551 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
3553 unsigned long nr_slab_pages0
, nr_slab_pages1
;
3557 * We need to be able to allocate from the reserves for RECLAIM_SWAP
3558 * and we also need to be able to write out pages for RECLAIM_WRITE
3561 p
->flags
|= PF_MEMALLOC
| PF_SWAPWRITE
;
3562 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask
);
3563 reclaim_state
.reclaimed_slab
= 0;
3564 p
->reclaim_state
= &reclaim_state
;
3566 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone
) > zone
->min_unmapped_pages
) {
3568 * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing
3569 * priorities until we have enough memory freed.
3572 shrink_zone(zone
, &sc
);
3573 } while (sc
.nr_reclaimed
< nr_pages
&& --sc
.priority
>= 0);
3576 nr_slab_pages0
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
);
3577 if (nr_slab_pages0
> zone
->min_slab_pages
) {
3579 * shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how
3580 * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current
3581 * number of slab pages and shake the slab until it is reduced
3582 * by the same nr_pages that we used for reclaiming unmapped
3585 nodes_clear(shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
3586 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone
), shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
3588 unsigned long lru_pages
= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
);
3590 /* No reclaimable slab or very low memory pressure */
3591 if (!shrink_slab(&shrink
, sc
.nr_scanned
, lru_pages
))
3594 /* Freed enough memory */
3595 nr_slab_pages1
= zone_page_state(zone
,
3596 NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
);
3597 if (nr_slab_pages1
+ nr_pages
<= nr_slab_pages0
)
3602 * Update nr_reclaimed by the number of slab pages we
3603 * reclaimed from this zone.
3605 nr_slab_pages1
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
);
3606 if (nr_slab_pages1
< nr_slab_pages0
)
3607 sc
.nr_reclaimed
+= nr_slab_pages0
- nr_slab_pages1
;
3610 p
->reclaim_state
= NULL
;
3611 current
->flags
&= ~(PF_MEMALLOC
| PF_SWAPWRITE
);
3612 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3613 return sc
.nr_reclaimed
>= nr_pages
;
3616 int zone_reclaim(struct zone
*zone
, gfp_t gfp_mask
, unsigned int order
)
3622 * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
3623 * slab pages if we are over the defined limits.
3625 * A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
3626 * file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
3627 * thrown out if the zone is overallocated. So we do not reclaim
3628 * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by
3629 * unmapped file backed pages.
3631 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone
) <= zone
->min_unmapped_pages
&&
3632 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
) <= zone
->min_slab_pages
)
3633 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL
;
3635 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone
))
3636 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL
;
3639 * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
3641 if (!(gfp_mask
& __GFP_WAIT
) || (current
->flags
& PF_MEMALLOC
))
3642 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN
;
3645 * Only run zone reclaim on the local zone or on zones that do not
3646 * have associated processors. This will favor the local processor
3647 * over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations
3648 * as wide as possible.
3650 node_id
= zone_to_nid(zone
);
3651 if (node_state(node_id
, N_CPU
) && node_id
!= numa_node_id())
3652 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN
;
3654 if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED
))
3655 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN
;
3657 ret
= __zone_reclaim(zone
, gfp_mask
, order
);
3658 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED
);
3661 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED
);
3668 * page_evictable - test whether a page is evictable
3669 * @page: the page to test
3671 * Test whether page is evictable--i.e., should be placed on active/inactive
3672 * lists vs unevictable list.
3674 * Reasons page might not be evictable:
3675 * (1) page's mapping marked unevictable
3676 * (2) page is part of an mlocked VMA
3679 int page_evictable(struct page
*page
)
3681 return !mapping_unevictable(page_mapping(page
)) && !PageMlocked(page
);
3686 * check_move_unevictable_pages - check pages for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
3687 * @pages: array of pages to check
3688 * @nr_pages: number of pages to check
3690 * Checks pages for evictability and moves them to the appropriate lru list.
3692 * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
3694 void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page
**pages
, int nr_pages
)
3696 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
3697 struct zone
*zone
= NULL
;
3702 for (i
= 0; i
< nr_pages
; i
++) {
3703 struct page
*page
= pages
[i
];
3704 struct zone
*pagezone
;
3707 pagezone
= page_zone(page
);
3708 if (pagezone
!= zone
) {
3710 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
3712 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
3714 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
3716 if (!PageLRU(page
) || !PageUnevictable(page
))
3719 if (page_evictable(page
)) {
3720 enum lru_list lru
= page_lru_base_type(page
);
3722 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page
));
3723 ClearPageUnevictable(page
);
3724 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, LRU_UNEVICTABLE
);
3725 add_page_to_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
3731 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED
, pgrescued
);
3732 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED
, pgscanned
);
3733 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
3736 #endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
3738 static void warn_scan_unevictable_pages(void)
3740 printk_once(KERN_WARNING
3741 "%s: The scan_unevictable_pages sysctl/node-interface has been "
3742 "disabled for lack of a legitimate use case. If you have "
3743 "one, please send an email to linux-mm@kvack.org.\n",
3748 * scan_unevictable_pages [vm] sysctl handler. On demand re-scan of
3749 * all nodes' unevictable lists for evictable pages
3751 unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages
;
3753 int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
3754 void __user
*buffer
,
3755 size_t *length
, loff_t
*ppos
)
3757 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3758 proc_doulongvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, length
, ppos
);
3759 scan_unevictable_pages
= 0;
3765 * per node 'scan_unevictable_pages' attribute. On demand re-scan of
3766 * a specified node's per zone unevictable lists for evictable pages.
3769 static ssize_t
read_scan_unevictable_node(struct device
*dev
,
3770 struct device_attribute
*attr
,
3773 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3774 return sprintf(buf
, "0\n"); /* always zero; should fit... */
3777 static ssize_t
write_scan_unevictable_node(struct device
*dev
,
3778 struct device_attribute
*attr
,
3779 const char *buf
, size_t count
)
3781 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3786 static DEVICE_ATTR(scan_unevictable_pages
, S_IRUGO
| S_IWUSR
,
3787 read_scan_unevictable_node
,
3788 write_scan_unevictable_node
);
3790 int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node
*node
)
3792 return device_create_file(&node
->dev
, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages
);
3795 void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node
*node
)
3797 device_remove_file(&node
->dev
, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages
);