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>
51 #include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
55 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
56 #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
59 /* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
60 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
62 /* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
63 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
65 /* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
66 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim
;
68 unsigned long hibernation_mode
;
70 /* This context's GFP mask */
75 /* Can mapped pages be reclaimed? */
78 /* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
83 /* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
87 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
88 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
90 struct mem_cgroup
*target_mem_cgroup
;
93 * Nodemask of nodes allowed by the caller. If NULL, all nodes
99 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
101 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
102 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
104 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
107 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
108 prefetch(&prev->_field); \
112 #define prefetch_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
115 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
116 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) \
118 if ((_page)->lru.prev != _base) { \
121 prev = lru_to_page(&(_page->lru)); \
122 prefetchw(&prev->_field); \
126 #define prefetchw_prev_lru_page(_page, _base, _field) do { } while (0)
130 * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
132 int vm_swappiness
= 60;
133 unsigned long vm_total_pages
; /* The total number of pages which the VM controls */
135 static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list
);
136 static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem
);
139 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control
*sc
)
141 return !sc
->target_mem_cgroup
;
144 static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control
*sc
)
150 unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone
*zone
)
154 nr
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_FILE
) +
155 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
157 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
158 nr
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_ANON
) +
159 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
164 bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone
*zone
)
166 return zone
->pages_scanned
< zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
) * 6;
169 static unsigned long get_lru_size(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, enum lru_list lru
)
171 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
172 return mem_cgroup_get_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
);
174 return zone_page_state(lruvec_zone(lruvec
), NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
);
178 * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm.
180 int register_shrinker(struct shrinker
*shrinker
)
182 size_t size
= sizeof(*shrinker
->nr_deferred
);
185 * If we only have one possible node in the system anyway, save
186 * ourselves the trouble and disable NUMA aware behavior. This way we
187 * will save memory and some small loop time later.
189 if (nr_node_ids
== 1)
190 shrinker
->flags
&= ~SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE
;
192 if (shrinker
->flags
& SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE
)
195 shrinker
->nr_deferred
= kzalloc(size
, GFP_KERNEL
);
196 if (!shrinker
->nr_deferred
)
199 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
200 list_add_tail(&shrinker
->list
, &shrinker_list
);
201 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
204 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker
);
209 void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker
*shrinker
)
211 down_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
212 list_del(&shrinker
->list
);
213 up_write(&shrinker_rwsem
);
215 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker
);
217 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
220 shrink_slab_node(struct shrink_control
*shrinkctl
, struct shrinker
*shrinker
,
221 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned
, unsigned long lru_pages
)
223 unsigned long freed
= 0;
224 unsigned long long delta
;
229 int nid
= shrinkctl
->nid
;
230 long batch_size
= shrinker
->batch
? shrinker
->batch
233 max_pass
= shrinker
->count_objects(shrinker
, shrinkctl
);
238 * copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
239 * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
240 * don't also do this scanning work.
242 nr
= atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker
->nr_deferred
[nid
], 0);
245 delta
= (4 * nr_pages_scanned
) / shrinker
->seeks
;
247 do_div(delta
, lru_pages
+ 1);
249 if (total_scan
< 0) {
251 "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to delete nr=%ld\n",
252 shrinker
->scan_objects
, total_scan
);
253 total_scan
= max_pass
;
257 * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
258 * due to large numbers of GFP_NOFS allocations causing the
259 * shrinkers to return -1 all the time. This results in a large
260 * nr being built up so when a shrink that can do some work
261 * comes along it empties the entire cache due to nr >>>
262 * max_pass. This is bad for sustaining a working set in
265 * Hence only allow the shrinker to scan the entire cache when
266 * a large delta change is calculated directly.
268 if (delta
< max_pass
/ 4)
269 total_scan
= min(total_scan
, max_pass
/ 2);
272 * Avoid risking looping forever due to too large nr value:
273 * never try to free more than twice the estimate number of
276 if (total_scan
> max_pass
* 2)
277 total_scan
= max_pass
* 2;
279 trace_mm_shrink_slab_start(shrinker
, shrinkctl
, nr
,
280 nr_pages_scanned
, lru_pages
,
281 max_pass
, delta
, total_scan
);
283 while (total_scan
>= batch_size
) {
286 shrinkctl
->nr_to_scan
= batch_size
;
287 ret
= shrinker
->scan_objects(shrinker
, shrinkctl
);
288 if (ret
== SHRINK_STOP
)
292 count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED
, batch_size
);
293 total_scan
-= batch_size
;
299 * move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a
300 * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
301 * scan, there is no need to do an update.
304 new_nr
= atomic_long_add_return(total_scan
,
305 &shrinker
->nr_deferred
[nid
]);
307 new_nr
= atomic_long_read(&shrinker
->nr_deferred
[nid
]);
309 trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker
, freed
, nr
, new_nr
);
314 * Call the shrink functions to age shrinkable caches
316 * Here we assume it costs one seek to replace a lru page and that it also
317 * takes a seek to recreate a cache object. With this in mind we age equal
318 * percentages of the lru and ageable caches. This should balance the seeks
319 * generated by these structures.
321 * If the vm encountered mapped pages on the LRU it increase the pressure on
322 * slab to avoid swapping.
324 * We do weird things to avoid (scanned*seeks*entries) overflowing 32 bits.
326 * `lru_pages' represents the number of on-LRU pages in all the zones which
327 * are eligible for the caller's allocation attempt. It is used for balancing
328 * slab reclaim versus page reclaim.
330 * Returns the number of slab objects which we shrunk.
332 unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control
*shrinkctl
,
333 unsigned long nr_pages_scanned
,
334 unsigned long lru_pages
)
336 struct shrinker
*shrinker
;
337 unsigned long freed
= 0;
339 if (nr_pages_scanned
== 0)
340 nr_pages_scanned
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
;
342 if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem
)) {
344 * If we would return 0, our callers would understand that we
345 * have nothing else to shrink and give up trying. By returning
346 * 1 we keep it going and assume we'll be able to shrink next
353 list_for_each_entry(shrinker
, &shrinker_list
, list
) {
354 for_each_node_mask(shrinkctl
->nid
, shrinkctl
->nodes_to_scan
) {
355 if (!node_online(shrinkctl
->nid
))
358 if (!(shrinker
->flags
& SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE
) &&
359 (shrinkctl
->nid
!= 0))
362 freed
+= shrink_slab_node(shrinkctl
, shrinker
,
363 nr_pages_scanned
, lru_pages
);
367 up_read(&shrinker_rwsem
);
373 static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page
*page
)
376 * A freeable page cache page is referenced only by the caller
377 * that isolated the page, the page cache radix tree and
378 * optional buffer heads at page->private.
380 return page_count(page
) - page_has_private(page
) == 2;
383 static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info
*bdi
,
384 struct scan_control
*sc
)
386 if (current
->flags
& PF_SWAPWRITE
)
388 if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi
))
390 if (bdi
== current
->backing_dev_info
)
396 * We detected a synchronous write error writing a page out. Probably
397 * -ENOSPC. We need to propagate that into the address_space for a subsequent
398 * fsync(), msync() or close().
400 * The tricky part is that after writepage we cannot touch the mapping: nothing
401 * prevents it from being freed up. But we have a ref on the page and once
402 * that page is locked, the mapping is pinned.
404 * We're allowed to run sleeping lock_page() here because we know the caller has
407 static void handle_write_error(struct address_space
*mapping
,
408 struct page
*page
, int error
)
411 if (page_mapping(page
) == mapping
)
412 mapping_set_error(mapping
, error
);
416 /* possible outcome of pageout() */
418 /* failed to write page out, page is locked */
420 /* move page to the active list, page is locked */
422 /* page has been sent to the disk successfully, page is unlocked */
424 /* page is clean and locked */
429 * pageout is called by shrink_page_list() for each dirty page.
430 * Calls ->writepage().
432 static pageout_t
pageout(struct page
*page
, struct address_space
*mapping
,
433 struct scan_control
*sc
)
436 * If the page is dirty, only perform writeback if that write
437 * will be non-blocking. To prevent this allocation from being
438 * stalled by pagecache activity. But note that there may be
439 * stalls if we need to run get_block(). We could test
440 * PagePrivate for that.
442 * If this process is currently in __generic_file_aio_write() against
443 * this page's queue, we can perform writeback even if that
446 * If the page is swapcache, write it back even if that would
447 * block, for some throttling. This happens by accident, because
448 * swap_backing_dev_info is bust: it doesn't reflect the
449 * congestion state of the swapdevs. Easy to fix, if needed.
451 if (!is_page_cache_freeable(page
))
455 * Some data journaling orphaned pages can have
456 * page->mapping == NULL while being dirty with clean buffers.
458 if (page_has_private(page
)) {
459 if (try_to_free_buffers(page
)) {
460 ClearPageDirty(page
);
461 printk("%s: orphaned page\n", __func__
);
467 if (mapping
->a_ops
->writepage
== NULL
)
468 return PAGE_ACTIVATE
;
469 if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping
->backing_dev_info
, sc
))
472 if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page
)) {
474 struct writeback_control wbc
= {
475 .sync_mode
= WB_SYNC_NONE
,
476 .nr_to_write
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
478 .range_end
= LLONG_MAX
,
482 SetPageReclaim(page
);
483 res
= mapping
->a_ops
->writepage(page
, &wbc
);
485 handle_write_error(mapping
, page
, res
);
486 if (res
== AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
) {
487 ClearPageReclaim(page
);
488 return PAGE_ACTIVATE
;
491 if (!PageWriteback(page
)) {
492 /* synchronous write or broken a_ops? */
493 ClearPageReclaim(page
);
495 trace_mm_vmscan_writepage(page
, trace_reclaim_flags(page
));
496 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE
);
504 * Same as remove_mapping, but if the page is removed from the mapping, it
505 * gets returned with a refcount of 0.
507 static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct page
*page
)
509 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
510 BUG_ON(mapping
!= page_mapping(page
));
512 spin_lock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
514 * The non racy check for a busy page.
516 * Must be careful with the order of the tests. When someone has
517 * a ref to the page, it may be possible that they dirty it then
518 * drop the reference. So if PageDirty is tested before page_count
519 * here, then the following race may occur:
521 * get_user_pages(&page);
522 * [user mapping goes away]
524 * !PageDirty(page) [good]
525 * SetPageDirty(page);
527 * !page_count(page) [good, discard it]
529 * [oops, our write_to data is lost]
531 * Reversing the order of the tests ensures such a situation cannot
532 * escape unnoticed. The smp_rmb is needed to ensure the page->flags
533 * load is not satisfied before that of page->_count.
535 * Note that if SetPageDirty is always performed via set_page_dirty,
536 * and thus under tree_lock, then this ordering is not required.
538 if (!page_freeze_refs(page
, 2))
540 /* note: atomic_cmpxchg in page_freeze_refs provides the smp_rmb */
541 if (unlikely(PageDirty(page
))) {
542 page_unfreeze_refs(page
, 2);
546 if (PageSwapCache(page
)) {
547 swp_entry_t swap
= { .val
= page_private(page
) };
548 __delete_from_swap_cache(page
);
549 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
550 swapcache_free(swap
, page
);
552 void (*freepage
)(struct page
*);
554 freepage
= mapping
->a_ops
->freepage
;
556 __delete_from_page_cache(page
);
557 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
558 mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page
);
560 if (freepage
!= NULL
)
567 spin_unlock_irq(&mapping
->tree_lock
);
572 * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if
573 * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was
574 * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on
577 int remove_mapping(struct address_space
*mapping
, struct page
*page
)
579 if (__remove_mapping(mapping
, page
)) {
581 * Unfreezing the refcount with 1 rather than 2 effectively
582 * drops the pagecache ref for us without requiring another
585 page_unfreeze_refs(page
, 1);
592 * putback_lru_page - put previously isolated page onto appropriate LRU list
593 * @page: page to be put back to appropriate lru list
595 * Add previously isolated @page to appropriate LRU list.
596 * Page may still be unevictable for other reasons.
598 * lru_lock must not be held, interrupts must be enabled.
600 void putback_lru_page(struct page
*page
)
603 int was_unevictable
= PageUnevictable(page
);
605 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
));
608 ClearPageUnevictable(page
);
610 if (page_evictable(page
)) {
612 * For evictable pages, we can use the cache.
613 * In event of a race, worst case is we end up with an
614 * unevictable page on [in]active list.
615 * We know how to handle that.
617 is_unevictable
= false;
621 * Put unevictable pages directly on zone's unevictable
624 is_unevictable
= true;
625 add_page_to_unevictable_list(page
);
627 * When racing with an mlock or AS_UNEVICTABLE clearing
628 * (page is unlocked) make sure that if the other thread
629 * does not observe our setting of PG_lru and fails
630 * isolation/check_move_unevictable_pages,
631 * we see PG_mlocked/AS_UNEVICTABLE cleared below and move
632 * the page back to the evictable list.
634 * The other side is TestClearPageMlocked() or shmem_lock().
640 * page's status can change while we move it among lru. If an evictable
641 * page is on unevictable list, it never be freed. To avoid that,
642 * check after we added it to the list, again.
644 if (is_unevictable
&& page_evictable(page
)) {
645 if (!isolate_lru_page(page
)) {
649 /* This means someone else dropped this page from LRU
650 * So, it will be freed or putback to LRU again. There is
651 * nothing to do here.
655 if (was_unevictable
&& !is_unevictable
)
656 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED
);
657 else if (!was_unevictable
&& is_unevictable
)
658 count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGCULLED
);
660 put_page(page
); /* drop ref from isolate */
663 enum page_references
{
665 PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
,
670 static enum page_references
page_check_references(struct page
*page
,
671 struct scan_control
*sc
)
673 int referenced_ptes
, referenced_page
;
674 unsigned long vm_flags
;
676 referenced_ptes
= page_referenced(page
, 1, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
678 referenced_page
= TestClearPageReferenced(page
);
681 * Mlock lost the isolation race with us. Let try_to_unmap()
682 * move the page to the unevictable list.
684 if (vm_flags
& VM_LOCKED
)
685 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM
;
687 if (referenced_ptes
) {
688 if (PageSwapBacked(page
))
689 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
;
691 * All mapped pages start out with page table
692 * references from the instantiating fault, so we need
693 * to look twice if a mapped file page is used more
696 * Mark it and spare it for another trip around the
697 * inactive list. Another page table reference will
698 * lead to its activation.
700 * Note: the mark is set for activated pages as well
701 * so that recently deactivated but used pages are
704 SetPageReferenced(page
);
706 if (referenced_page
|| referenced_ptes
> 1)
707 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
;
710 * Activate file-backed executable pages after first usage.
712 if (vm_flags
& VM_EXEC
)
713 return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
;
718 /* Reclaim if clean, defer dirty pages to writeback */
719 if (referenced_page
&& !PageSwapBacked(page
))
720 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
;
722 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM
;
725 /* Check if a page is dirty or under writeback */
726 static void page_check_dirty_writeback(struct page
*page
,
727 bool *dirty
, bool *writeback
)
729 struct address_space
*mapping
;
732 * Anonymous pages are not handled by flushers and must be written
733 * from reclaim context. Do not stall reclaim based on them
735 if (!page_is_file_cache(page
)) {
741 /* By default assume that the page flags are accurate */
742 *dirty
= PageDirty(page
);
743 *writeback
= PageWriteback(page
);
745 /* Verify dirty/writeback state if the filesystem supports it */
746 if (!page_has_private(page
))
749 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
750 if (mapping
&& mapping
->a_ops
->is_dirty_writeback
)
751 mapping
->a_ops
->is_dirty_writeback(page
, dirty
, writeback
);
755 * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
757 static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head
*page_list
,
759 struct scan_control
*sc
,
760 enum ttu_flags ttu_flags
,
761 unsigned long *ret_nr_dirty
,
762 unsigned long *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty
,
763 unsigned long *ret_nr_congested
,
764 unsigned long *ret_nr_writeback
,
765 unsigned long *ret_nr_immediate
,
768 LIST_HEAD(ret_pages
);
769 LIST_HEAD(free_pages
);
771 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty
= 0;
772 unsigned long nr_dirty
= 0;
773 unsigned long nr_congested
= 0;
774 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
= 0;
775 unsigned long nr_writeback
= 0;
776 unsigned long nr_immediate
= 0;
780 mem_cgroup_uncharge_start();
781 while (!list_empty(page_list
)) {
782 struct address_space
*mapping
;
785 enum page_references references
= PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
;
786 bool dirty
, writeback
;
790 page
= lru_to_page(page_list
);
791 list_del(&page
->lru
);
793 if (!trylock_page(page
))
796 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page
));
797 VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page
) != zone
);
801 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page
)))
804 if (!sc
->may_unmap
&& page_mapped(page
))
807 /* Double the slab pressure for mapped and swapcache pages */
808 if (page_mapped(page
) || PageSwapCache(page
))
811 may_enter_fs
= (sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_FS
) ||
812 (PageSwapCache(page
) && (sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_IO
));
815 * The number of dirty pages determines if a zone is marked
816 * reclaim_congested which affects wait_iff_congested. kswapd
817 * will stall and start writing pages if the tail of the LRU
818 * is all dirty unqueued pages.
820 page_check_dirty_writeback(page
, &dirty
, &writeback
);
821 if (dirty
|| writeback
)
824 if (dirty
&& !writeback
)
828 * Treat this page as congested if the underlying BDI is or if
829 * pages are cycling through the LRU so quickly that the
830 * pages marked for immediate reclaim are making it to the
831 * end of the LRU a second time.
833 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
834 if ((mapping
&& bdi_write_congested(mapping
->backing_dev_info
)) ||
835 (writeback
&& PageReclaim(page
)))
839 * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there
840 * are three cases to consider.
842 * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages
843 * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and
844 * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued
845 * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the
846 * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an
847 * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the
848 * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead
849 * note that the LRU is being scanned too quickly and the
850 * caller can stall after page list has been processed.
852 * 2) Global reclaim encounters a page, memcg encounters a
853 * page that is not marked for immediate reclaim or
854 * the caller does not have __GFP_IO. In this case mark
855 * the page for immediate reclaim and continue scanning.
857 * __GFP_IO is checked because a loop driver thread might
858 * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for
859 * which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off
860 * __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought
861 * would probably show more reasons.
863 * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into the
864 * FS, just waiting on its writeback completion. Worryingly,
865 * ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with
866 * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so testing
867 * may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them.
869 * 3) memcg encounters a page that is not already marked
870 * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages
871 * throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many
872 * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to
873 * reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete.
875 if (PageWriteback(page
)) {
877 if (current_is_kswapd() &&
879 zone_is_reclaim_writeback(zone
)) {
884 } else if (global_reclaim(sc
) ||
885 !PageReclaim(page
) || !(sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_IO
)) {
887 * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
888 * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then
889 * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted
890 * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter
891 * enough to care. What we do want is for this
892 * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg
893 * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will
894 * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM;
895 * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim.
897 SetPageReclaim(page
);
904 wait_on_page_writeback(page
);
909 references
= page_check_references(page
, sc
);
911 switch (references
) {
912 case PAGEREF_ACTIVATE
:
913 goto activate_locked
;
916 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM
:
917 case PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
:
918 ; /* try to reclaim the page below */
922 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
923 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
925 if (PageAnon(page
) && !PageSwapCache(page
)) {
926 if (!(sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_IO
))
928 if (!add_to_swap(page
, page_list
))
929 goto activate_locked
;
932 /* Adding to swap updated mapping */
933 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
937 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
938 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
940 if (page_mapped(page
) && mapping
) {
941 switch (try_to_unmap(page
, ttu_flags
)) {
943 goto activate_locked
;
949 ; /* try to free the page below */
953 if (PageDirty(page
)) {
955 * Only kswapd can writeback filesystem pages to
956 * avoid risk of stack overflow but only writeback
957 * if many dirty pages have been encountered.
959 if (page_is_file_cache(page
) &&
960 (!current_is_kswapd() ||
961 !zone_is_reclaim_dirty(zone
))) {
963 * Immediately reclaim when written back.
964 * Similar in principal to deactivate_page()
965 * except we already have the page isolated
966 * and know it's dirty
968 inc_zone_page_state(page
, NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE
);
969 SetPageReclaim(page
);
974 if (references
== PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN
)
978 if (!sc
->may_writepage
)
981 /* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
982 switch (pageout(page
, mapping
, sc
)) {
986 goto activate_locked
;
988 if (PageWriteback(page
))
994 * A synchronous write - probably a ramdisk. Go
995 * ahead and try to reclaim the page.
997 if (!trylock_page(page
))
999 if (PageDirty(page
) || PageWriteback(page
))
1001 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
1003 ; /* try to free the page below */
1008 * If the page has buffers, try to free the buffer mappings
1009 * associated with this page. If we succeed we try to free
1012 * We do this even if the page is PageDirty().
1013 * try_to_release_page() does not perform I/O, but it is
1014 * possible for a page to have PageDirty set, but it is actually
1015 * clean (all its buffers are clean). This happens if the
1016 * buffers were written out directly, with submit_bh(). ext3
1017 * will do this, as well as the blockdev mapping.
1018 * try_to_release_page() will discover that cleanness and will
1019 * drop the buffers and mark the page clean - it can be freed.
1021 * Rarely, pages can have buffers and no ->mapping. These are
1022 * the pages which were not successfully invalidated in
1023 * truncate_complete_page(). We try to drop those buffers here
1024 * and if that worked, and the page is no longer mapped into
1025 * process address space (page_count == 1) it can be freed.
1026 * Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
1028 if (page_has_private(page
)) {
1029 if (!try_to_release_page(page
, sc
->gfp_mask
))
1030 goto activate_locked
;
1031 if (!mapping
&& page_count(page
) == 1) {
1033 if (put_page_testzero(page
))
1037 * rare race with speculative reference.
1038 * the speculative reference will free
1039 * this page shortly, so we may
1040 * increment nr_reclaimed here (and
1041 * leave it off the LRU).
1049 if (!mapping
|| !__remove_mapping(mapping
, page
))
1053 * At this point, we have no other references and there is
1054 * no way to pick any more up (removed from LRU, removed
1055 * from pagecache). Can use non-atomic bitops now (and
1056 * we obviously don't have to worry about waking up a process
1057 * waiting on the page lock, because there are no references.
1059 __clear_page_locked(page
);
1064 * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would
1065 * appear not as the counts should be low
1067 list_add(&page
->lru
, &free_pages
);
1071 if (PageSwapCache(page
))
1072 try_to_free_swap(page
);
1074 putback_lru_page(page
);
1078 /* Not a candidate for swapping, so reclaim swap space. */
1079 if (PageSwapCache(page
) && vm_swap_full())
1080 try_to_free_swap(page
);
1081 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page
));
1082 SetPageActive(page
);
1087 list_add(&page
->lru
, &ret_pages
);
1088 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
) || PageUnevictable(page
));
1091 free_hot_cold_page_list(&free_pages
, 1);
1093 list_splice(&ret_pages
, page_list
);
1094 count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE
, pgactivate
);
1095 mem_cgroup_uncharge_end();
1096 *ret_nr_dirty
+= nr_dirty
;
1097 *ret_nr_congested
+= nr_congested
;
1098 *ret_nr_unqueued_dirty
+= nr_unqueued_dirty
;
1099 *ret_nr_writeback
+= nr_writeback
;
1100 *ret_nr_immediate
+= nr_immediate
;
1101 return nr_reclaimed
;
1104 unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone
*zone
,
1105 struct list_head
*page_list
)
1107 struct scan_control sc
= {
1108 .gfp_mask
= GFP_KERNEL
,
1109 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
1112 unsigned long ret
, dummy1
, dummy2
, dummy3
, dummy4
, dummy5
;
1113 struct page
*page
, *next
;
1114 LIST_HEAD(clean_pages
);
1116 list_for_each_entry_safe(page
, next
, page_list
, lru
) {
1117 if (page_is_file_cache(page
) && !PageDirty(page
) &&
1118 !isolated_balloon_page(page
)) {
1119 ClearPageActive(page
);
1120 list_move(&page
->lru
, &clean_pages
);
1124 ret
= shrink_page_list(&clean_pages
, zone
, &sc
,
1125 TTU_UNMAP
|TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS
,
1126 &dummy1
, &dummy2
, &dummy3
, &dummy4
, &dummy5
, true);
1127 list_splice(&clean_pages
, page_list
);
1128 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_FILE
, -ret
);
1133 * Attempt to remove the specified page from its LRU. Only take this page
1134 * if it is of the appropriate PageActive status. Pages which are being
1135 * freed elsewhere are also ignored.
1137 * page: page to consider
1138 * mode: one of the LRU isolation modes defined above
1140 * returns 0 on success, -ve errno on failure.
1142 int __isolate_lru_page(struct page
*page
, isolate_mode_t mode
)
1146 /* Only take pages on the LRU. */
1150 /* Compaction should not handle unevictable pages but CMA can do so */
1151 if (PageUnevictable(page
) && !(mode
& ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE
))
1157 * To minimise LRU disruption, the caller can indicate that it only
1158 * wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
1159 * blocking - clean pages for the most part.
1161 * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
1162 * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
1164 * ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
1165 * that it is possible to migrate without blocking
1167 if (mode
& (ISOLATE_CLEAN
|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE
)) {
1168 /* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
1169 if (PageWriteback(page
))
1172 if (PageDirty(page
)) {
1173 struct address_space
*mapping
;
1175 /* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
1176 if (mode
& ISOLATE_CLEAN
)
1180 * Only pages without mappings or that have a
1181 * ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
1184 mapping
= page_mapping(page
);
1185 if (mapping
&& !mapping
->a_ops
->migratepage
)
1190 if ((mode
& ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
) && page_mapped(page
))
1193 if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page
))) {
1195 * Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
1196 * sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
1197 * page release code relies on it.
1207 * zone->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that
1208 * shrink the lists perform better by taking out a batch of pages
1209 * and working on them outside the LRU lock.
1211 * For pagecache intensive workloads, this function is the hottest
1212 * spot in the kernel (apart from copy_*_user functions).
1214 * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function.
1216 * @nr_to_scan: The number of pages to look through on the list.
1217 * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from.
1218 * @dst: The temp list to put pages on to.
1219 * @nr_scanned: The number of pages that were scanned.
1220 * @sc: The scan_control struct for this reclaim session
1221 * @mode: One of the LRU isolation modes
1222 * @lru: LRU list id for isolating
1224 * returns how many pages were moved onto *@dst.
1226 static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan
,
1227 struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct list_head
*dst
,
1228 unsigned long *nr_scanned
, struct scan_control
*sc
,
1229 isolate_mode_t mode
, enum lru_list lru
)
1231 struct list_head
*src
= &lruvec
->lists
[lru
];
1232 unsigned long nr_taken
= 0;
1235 for (scan
= 0; scan
< nr_to_scan
&& !list_empty(src
); scan
++) {
1239 page
= lru_to_page(src
);
1240 prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page
, src
, flags
);
1242 VM_BUG_ON(!PageLRU(page
));
1244 switch (__isolate_lru_page(page
, mode
)) {
1246 nr_pages
= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1247 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
, -nr_pages
);
1248 list_move(&page
->lru
, dst
);
1249 nr_taken
+= nr_pages
;
1253 /* else it is being freed elsewhere */
1254 list_move(&page
->lru
, src
);
1263 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc
->order
, nr_to_scan
, scan
,
1264 nr_taken
, mode
, is_file_lru(lru
));
1269 * isolate_lru_page - tries to isolate a page from its LRU list
1270 * @page: page to isolate from its LRU list
1272 * Isolates a @page from an LRU list, clears PageLRU and adjusts the
1273 * vmstat statistic corresponding to whatever LRU list the page was on.
1275 * Returns 0 if the page was removed from an LRU list.
1276 * Returns -EBUSY if the page was not on an LRU list.
1278 * The returned page will have PageLRU() cleared. If it was found on
1279 * the active list, it will have PageActive set. If it was found on
1280 * the unevictable list, it will have the PageUnevictable bit set. That flag
1281 * may need to be cleared by the caller before letting the page go.
1283 * The vmstat statistic corresponding to the list on which the page was
1284 * found will be decremented.
1287 * (1) Must be called with an elevated refcount on the page. This is a
1288 * fundamentnal difference from isolate_lru_pages (which is called
1289 * without a stable reference).
1290 * (2) the lru_lock must not be held.
1291 * (3) interrupts must be enabled.
1293 int isolate_lru_page(struct page
*page
)
1297 VM_BUG_ON(!page_count(page
));
1299 if (PageLRU(page
)) {
1300 struct zone
*zone
= page_zone(page
);
1301 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
1303 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1304 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
1305 if (PageLRU(page
)) {
1306 int lru
= page_lru(page
);
1309 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1312 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1318 * A direct reclaimer may isolate SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages from the LRU list and
1319 * then get resheduled. When there are massive number of tasks doing page
1320 * allocation, such sleeping direct reclaimers may keep piling up on each CPU,
1321 * the LRU list will go small and be scanned faster than necessary, leading to
1322 * unnecessary swapping, thrashing and OOM.
1324 static int too_many_isolated(struct zone
*zone
, int file
,
1325 struct scan_control
*sc
)
1327 unsigned long inactive
, isolated
;
1329 if (current_is_kswapd())
1332 if (!global_reclaim(sc
))
1336 inactive
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
1337 isolated
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_FILE
);
1339 inactive
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
1340 isolated
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
);
1344 * GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers are allowed to isolate more pages, so they
1345 * won't get blocked by normal direct-reclaimers, forming a circular
1348 if ((sc
->gfp_mask
& GFP_IOFS
) == GFP_IOFS
)
1351 return isolated
> inactive
;
1354 static noinline_for_stack
void
1355 putback_inactive_pages(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct list_head
*page_list
)
1357 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1358 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1359 LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free
);
1362 * Put back any unfreeable pages.
1364 while (!list_empty(page_list
)) {
1365 struct page
*page
= lru_to_page(page_list
);
1368 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
));
1369 list_del(&page
->lru
);
1370 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page
))) {
1371 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1372 putback_lru_page(page
);
1373 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1377 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
1380 lru
= page_lru(page
);
1381 add_page_to_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1383 if (is_active_lru(lru
)) {
1384 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1385 int numpages
= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1386 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[file
] += numpages
;
1388 if (put_page_testzero(page
)) {
1389 __ClearPageLRU(page
);
1390 __ClearPageActive(page
);
1391 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1393 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page
))) {
1394 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1395 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page
))(page
);
1396 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1398 list_add(&page
->lru
, &pages_to_free
);
1403 * To save our caller's stack, now use input list for pages to free.
1405 list_splice(&pages_to_free
, page_list
);
1409 * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone(). It returns the number
1410 * of reclaimed pages
1412 static noinline_for_stack
unsigned long
1413 shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan
, struct lruvec
*lruvec
,
1414 struct scan_control
*sc
, enum lru_list lru
)
1416 LIST_HEAD(page_list
);
1417 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
1418 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
= 0;
1419 unsigned long nr_taken
;
1420 unsigned long nr_dirty
= 0;
1421 unsigned long nr_congested
= 0;
1422 unsigned long nr_unqueued_dirty
= 0;
1423 unsigned long nr_writeback
= 0;
1424 unsigned long nr_immediate
= 0;
1425 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode
= 0;
1426 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1427 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1428 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1430 while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(zone
, file
, sc
))) {
1431 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1433 /* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
1434 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
1435 return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
;
1441 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
;
1442 if (!sc
->may_writepage
)
1443 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_CLEAN
;
1445 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1447 nr_taken
= isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, &page_list
,
1448 &nr_scanned
, sc
, isolate_mode
, lru
);
1450 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
, -nr_taken
);
1451 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, nr_taken
);
1453 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1454 zone
->pages_scanned
+= nr_scanned
;
1455 if (current_is_kswapd())
1456 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD
, zone
, nr_scanned
);
1458 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT
, zone
, nr_scanned
);
1460 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1465 nr_reclaimed
= shrink_page_list(&page_list
, zone
, sc
, TTU_UNMAP
,
1466 &nr_dirty
, &nr_unqueued_dirty
, &nr_congested
,
1467 &nr_writeback
, &nr_immediate
,
1470 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1472 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[file
] += nr_taken
;
1474 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1475 if (current_is_kswapd())
1476 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_KSWAPD
, zone
,
1479 __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL_DIRECT
, zone
,
1483 putback_inactive_pages(lruvec
, &page_list
);
1485 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, -nr_taken
);
1487 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1489 free_hot_cold_page_list(&page_list
, 1);
1492 * If reclaim is isolating dirty pages under writeback, it implies
1493 * that the long-lived page allocation rate is exceeding the page
1494 * laundering rate. Either the global limits are not being effective
1495 * at throttling processes due to the page distribution throughout
1496 * zones or there is heavy usage of a slow backing device. The
1497 * only option is to throttle from reclaim context which is not ideal
1498 * as there is no guarantee the dirtying process is throttled in the
1499 * same way balance_dirty_pages() manages.
1501 * Once a zone is flagged ZONE_WRITEBACK, kswapd will count the number
1502 * of pages under pages flagged for immediate reclaim and stall if any
1503 * are encountered in the nr_immediate check below.
1505 if (nr_writeback
&& nr_writeback
== nr_taken
)
1506 zone_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_WRITEBACK
);
1509 * memcg will stall in page writeback so only consider forcibly
1510 * stalling for global reclaim
1512 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1514 * Tag a zone as congested if all the dirty pages scanned were
1515 * backed by a congested BDI and wait_iff_congested will stall.
1517 if (nr_dirty
&& nr_dirty
== nr_congested
)
1518 zone_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_CONGESTED
);
1521 * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
1522 * implies that flushers are not keeping up. In this case, flag
1523 * the zone ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY and kswapd will start writing
1524 * pages from reclaim context. It will forcibly stall in the
1527 if (nr_unqueued_dirty
== nr_taken
)
1528 zone_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY
);
1531 * In addition, if kswapd scans pages marked marked for
1532 * immediate reclaim and under writeback (nr_immediate), it
1533 * implies that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
1534 * they are written so also forcibly stall.
1536 if (nr_unqueued_dirty
== nr_taken
|| nr_immediate
)
1537 congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1541 * Stall direct reclaim for IO completions if underlying BDIs or zone
1542 * is congested. Allow kswapd to continue until it starts encountering
1543 * unqueued dirty pages or cycling through the LRU too quickly.
1545 if (!sc
->hibernation_mode
&& !current_is_kswapd())
1546 wait_iff_congested(zone
, BLK_RW_ASYNC
, HZ
/10);
1548 trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive(zone
->zone_pgdat
->node_id
,
1550 nr_scanned
, nr_reclaimed
,
1552 trace_shrink_flags(file
));
1553 return nr_reclaimed
;
1557 * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
1559 * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
1560 * processes, from rmap.
1562 * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is
1563 * appropriate to hold zone->lru_lock across the whole operation. But if
1564 * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we
1565 * should drop zone->lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance
1566 * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them.
1567 * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because
1568 * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page.
1570 * The downside is that we have to touch page->_count against each page.
1571 * But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
1574 static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec
*lruvec
,
1575 struct list_head
*list
,
1576 struct list_head
*pages_to_free
,
1579 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1580 unsigned long pgmoved
= 0;
1584 while (!list_empty(list
)) {
1585 page
= lru_to_page(list
);
1586 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
1588 VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page
));
1591 nr_pages
= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1592 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
, nr_pages
);
1593 list_move(&page
->lru
, &lruvec
->lists
[lru
]);
1594 pgmoved
+= nr_pages
;
1596 if (put_page_testzero(page
)) {
1597 __ClearPageLRU(page
);
1598 __ClearPageActive(page
);
1599 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
1601 if (unlikely(PageCompound(page
))) {
1602 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1603 (*get_compound_page_dtor(page
))(page
);
1604 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1606 list_add(&page
->lru
, pages_to_free
);
1609 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
, pgmoved
);
1610 if (!is_active_lru(lru
))
1611 __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE
, pgmoved
);
1614 static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan
,
1615 struct lruvec
*lruvec
,
1616 struct scan_control
*sc
,
1619 unsigned long nr_taken
;
1620 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
1621 unsigned long vm_flags
;
1622 LIST_HEAD(l_hold
); /* The pages which were snipped off */
1623 LIST_HEAD(l_active
);
1624 LIST_HEAD(l_inactive
);
1626 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1627 unsigned long nr_rotated
= 0;
1628 isolate_mode_t isolate_mode
= 0;
1629 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1630 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1635 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
;
1636 if (!sc
->may_writepage
)
1637 isolate_mode
|= ISOLATE_CLEAN
;
1639 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1641 nr_taken
= isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, &l_hold
,
1642 &nr_scanned
, sc
, isolate_mode
, lru
);
1643 if (global_reclaim(sc
))
1644 zone
->pages_scanned
+= nr_scanned
;
1646 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[file
] += nr_taken
;
1648 __count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL
, zone
, nr_scanned
);
1649 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_LRU_BASE
+ lru
, -nr_taken
);
1650 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, nr_taken
);
1651 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1653 while (!list_empty(&l_hold
)) {
1655 page
= lru_to_page(&l_hold
);
1656 list_del(&page
->lru
);
1658 if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page
))) {
1659 putback_lru_page(page
);
1663 if (unlikely(buffer_heads_over_limit
)) {
1664 if (page_has_private(page
) && trylock_page(page
)) {
1665 if (page_has_private(page
))
1666 try_to_release_page(page
, 0);
1671 if (page_referenced(page
, 0, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
1673 nr_rotated
+= hpage_nr_pages(page
);
1675 * Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
1676 * give them one more trip around the active list. So
1677 * that executable code get better chances to stay in
1678 * memory under moderate memory pressure. Anon pages
1679 * are not likely to be evicted by use-once streaming
1680 * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages,
1681 * so we ignore them here.
1683 if ((vm_flags
& VM_EXEC
) && page_is_file_cache(page
)) {
1684 list_add(&page
->lru
, &l_active
);
1689 ClearPageActive(page
); /* we are de-activating */
1690 list_add(&page
->lru
, &l_inactive
);
1694 * Move pages back to the lru list.
1696 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1698 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as rotated,
1699 * even though only some of them are actually re-activated. This
1700 * helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous pages in
1703 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[file
] += nr_rotated
;
1705 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec
, &l_active
, &l_hold
, lru
);
1706 move_active_pages_to_lru(lruvec
, &l_inactive
, &l_hold
, lru
- LRU_ACTIVE
);
1707 __mod_zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ISOLATED_ANON
+ file
, -nr_taken
);
1708 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1710 free_hot_cold_page_list(&l_hold
, 1);
1714 static int inactive_anon_is_low_global(struct zone
*zone
)
1716 unsigned long active
, inactive
;
1718 active
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_ANON
);
1719 inactive
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
1721 if (inactive
* zone
->inactive_ratio
< active
)
1728 * inactive_anon_is_low - check if anonymous pages need to be deactivated
1729 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1731 * Returns true if the zone does not have enough inactive anon pages,
1732 * meaning some active anon pages need to be deactivated.
1734 static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
)
1737 * If we don't have swap space, anonymous page deactivation
1740 if (!total_swap_pages
)
1743 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled())
1744 return mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
);
1746 return inactive_anon_is_low_global(lruvec_zone(lruvec
));
1749 static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
)
1756 * inactive_file_is_low - check if file pages need to be deactivated
1757 * @lruvec: LRU vector to check
1759 * When the system is doing streaming IO, memory pressure here
1760 * ensures that active file pages get deactivated, until more
1761 * than half of the file pages are on the inactive list.
1763 * Once we get to that situation, protect the system's working
1764 * set from being evicted by disabling active file page aging.
1766 * This uses a different ratio than the anonymous pages, because
1767 * the page cache uses a use-once replacement algorithm.
1769 static int inactive_file_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
)
1771 unsigned long inactive
;
1772 unsigned long active
;
1774 inactive
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
);
1775 active
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
);
1777 return active
> inactive
;
1780 static int inactive_list_is_low(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, enum lru_list lru
)
1782 if (is_file_lru(lru
))
1783 return inactive_file_is_low(lruvec
);
1785 return inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
);
1788 static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru
, unsigned long nr_to_scan
,
1789 struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
1791 if (is_active_lru(lru
)) {
1792 if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec
, lru
))
1793 shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, sc
, lru
);
1797 return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan
, lruvec
, sc
, lru
);
1800 static int vmscan_swappiness(struct scan_control
*sc
)
1802 if (global_reclaim(sc
))
1803 return vm_swappiness
;
1804 return mem_cgroup_swappiness(sc
->target_mem_cgroup
);
1815 * Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
1816 * scanned. The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
1817 * by looking at the fraction of the pages scanned we did rotate back
1818 * onto the active list instead of evict.
1820 * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
1821 * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
1823 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct scan_control
*sc
,
1826 struct zone_reclaim_stat
*reclaim_stat
= &lruvec
->reclaim_stat
;
1828 u64 denominator
= 0; /* gcc */
1829 struct zone
*zone
= lruvec_zone(lruvec
);
1830 unsigned long anon_prio
, file_prio
;
1831 enum scan_balance scan_balance
;
1832 unsigned long anon
, file
, free
;
1833 bool force_scan
= false;
1834 unsigned long ap
, fp
;
1838 * If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0. This
1839 * results in no scanning on this priority and a potential
1840 * priority drop. Global direct reclaim can go to the next
1841 * zone and tends to have no problems. Global kswapd is for
1842 * zone balancing and it needs to scan a minimum amount. When
1843 * reclaiming for a memcg, a priority drop can cause high
1844 * latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
1847 if (current_is_kswapd() && !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
1849 if (!global_reclaim(sc
))
1852 /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
1853 if (!sc
->may_swap
|| (get_nr_swap_pages() <= 0)) {
1854 scan_balance
= SCAN_FILE
;
1859 * Global reclaim will swap to prevent OOM even with no
1860 * swappiness, but memcg users want to use this knob to
1861 * disable swapping for individual groups completely when
1862 * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be
1865 if (!global_reclaim(sc
) && !vmscan_swappiness(sc
)) {
1866 scan_balance
= SCAN_FILE
;
1871 * Do not apply any pressure balancing cleverness when the
1872 * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally
1873 * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping).
1875 if (!sc
->priority
&& vmscan_swappiness(sc
)) {
1876 scan_balance
= SCAN_EQUAL
;
1880 anon
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
) +
1881 get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
);
1882 file
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
) +
1883 get_lru_size(lruvec
, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
);
1886 * If it's foreseeable that reclaiming the file cache won't be
1887 * enough to get the zone back into a desirable shape, we have
1888 * to swap. Better start now and leave the - probably heavily
1889 * thrashing - remaining file pages alone.
1891 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
1892 free
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FREE_PAGES
);
1893 if (unlikely(file
+ free
<= high_wmark_pages(zone
))) {
1894 scan_balance
= SCAN_ANON
;
1900 * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim
1901 * anything from the anonymous working set right now.
1903 if (!inactive_file_is_low(lruvec
)) {
1904 scan_balance
= SCAN_FILE
;
1908 scan_balance
= SCAN_FRACT
;
1911 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
1912 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
1914 anon_prio
= vmscan_swappiness(sc
);
1915 file_prio
= 200 - anon_prio
;
1918 * OK, so we have swap space and a fair amount of page cache
1919 * pages. We use the recently rotated / recently scanned
1920 * ratios to determine how valuable each cache is.
1922 * Because workloads change over time (and to avoid overflow)
1923 * we keep these statistics as a floating average, which ends
1924 * up weighing recent references more than old ones.
1926 * anon in [0], file in [1]
1928 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1929 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[0] > anon
/ 4)) {
1930 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[0] /= 2;
1931 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[0] /= 2;
1934 if (unlikely(reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[1] > file
/ 4)) {
1935 reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[1] /= 2;
1936 reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[1] /= 2;
1940 * The amount of pressure on anon vs file pages is inversely
1941 * proportional to the fraction of recently scanned pages on
1942 * each list that were recently referenced and in active use.
1944 ap
= anon_prio
* (reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[0] + 1);
1945 ap
/= reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[0] + 1;
1947 fp
= file_prio
* (reclaim_stat
->recent_scanned
[1] + 1);
1948 fp
/= reclaim_stat
->recent_rotated
[1] + 1;
1949 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
1953 denominator
= ap
+ fp
+ 1;
1955 for_each_evictable_lru(lru
) {
1956 int file
= is_file_lru(lru
);
1960 size
= get_lru_size(lruvec
, lru
);
1961 scan
= size
>> sc
->priority
;
1963 if (!scan
&& force_scan
)
1964 scan
= min(size
, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
);
1966 switch (scan_balance
) {
1968 /* Scan lists relative to size */
1972 * Scan types proportional to swappiness and
1973 * their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
1975 scan
= div64_u64(scan
* fraction
[file
], denominator
);
1979 /* Scan one type exclusively */
1980 if ((scan_balance
== SCAN_FILE
) != file
)
1984 /* Look ma, no brain */
1992 * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
1994 static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec
*lruvec
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
1996 unsigned long nr
[NR_LRU_LISTS
];
1997 unsigned long targets
[NR_LRU_LISTS
];
1998 unsigned long nr_to_scan
;
2000 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
= 0;
2001 unsigned long nr_to_reclaim
= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
;
2002 struct blk_plug plug
;
2003 bool scan_adjusted
= false;
2005 get_scan_count(lruvec
, sc
, nr
);
2007 /* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */
2008 memcpy(targets
, nr
, sizeof(nr
));
2010 blk_start_plug(&plug
);
2011 while (nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
] || nr
[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
] ||
2012 nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
]) {
2013 unsigned long nr_anon
, nr_file
, percentage
;
2014 unsigned long nr_scanned
;
2016 for_each_evictable_lru(lru
) {
2018 nr_to_scan
= min(nr
[lru
], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
);
2019 nr
[lru
] -= nr_to_scan
;
2021 nr_reclaimed
+= shrink_list(lru
, nr_to_scan
,
2026 if (nr_reclaimed
< nr_to_reclaim
|| scan_adjusted
)
2030 * For global direct reclaim, reclaim only the number of pages
2031 * requested. Less care is taken to scan proportionally as it
2032 * is more important to minimise direct reclaim stall latency
2033 * than it is to properly age the LRU lists.
2035 if (global_reclaim(sc
) && !current_is_kswapd())
2039 * For kswapd and memcg, reclaim at least the number of pages
2040 * requested. Ensure that the anon and file LRUs shrink
2041 * proportionally what was requested by get_scan_count(). We
2042 * stop reclaiming one LRU and reduce the amount scanning
2043 * proportional to the original scan target.
2045 nr_file
= nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
] + nr
[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
];
2046 nr_anon
= nr
[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
] + nr
[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
];
2048 if (nr_file
> nr_anon
) {
2049 unsigned long scan_target
= targets
[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON
] +
2050 targets
[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
] + 1;
2052 percentage
= nr_anon
* 100 / scan_target
;
2054 unsigned long scan_target
= targets
[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE
] +
2055 targets
[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE
] + 1;
2057 percentage
= nr_file
* 100 / scan_target
;
2060 /* Stop scanning the smaller of the LRU */
2062 nr
[lru
+ LRU_ACTIVE
] = 0;
2065 * Recalculate the other LRU scan count based on its original
2066 * scan target and the percentage scanning already complete
2068 lru
= (lru
== LRU_FILE
) ? LRU_BASE
: LRU_FILE
;
2069 nr_scanned
= targets
[lru
] - nr
[lru
];
2070 nr
[lru
] = targets
[lru
] * (100 - percentage
) / 100;
2071 nr
[lru
] -= min(nr
[lru
], nr_scanned
);
2074 nr_scanned
= targets
[lru
] - nr
[lru
];
2075 nr
[lru
] = targets
[lru
] * (100 - percentage
) / 100;
2076 nr
[lru
] -= min(nr
[lru
], nr_scanned
);
2078 scan_adjusted
= true;
2080 blk_finish_plug(&plug
);
2081 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= nr_reclaimed
;
2084 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
2085 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
2087 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
))
2088 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
, lruvec
,
2089 sc
, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
);
2091 throttle_vm_writeout(sc
->gfp_mask
);
2094 /* Use reclaim/compaction for costly allocs or under memory pressure */
2095 static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct scan_control
*sc
)
2097 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
) && sc
->order
&&
2098 (sc
->order
> PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
||
2099 sc
->priority
< DEF_PRIORITY
- 2))
2106 * Reclaim/compaction is used for high-order allocation requests. It reclaims
2107 * order-0 pages before compacting the zone. should_continue_reclaim() returns
2108 * true if more pages should be reclaimed such that when the page allocator
2109 * calls try_to_compact_zone() that it will have enough free pages to succeed.
2110 * It will give up earlier than that if there is difficulty reclaiming pages.
2112 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone
*zone
,
2113 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
,
2114 unsigned long nr_scanned
,
2115 struct scan_control
*sc
)
2117 unsigned long pages_for_compaction
;
2118 unsigned long inactive_lru_pages
;
2120 /* If not in reclaim/compaction mode, stop */
2121 if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc
))
2124 /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
2125 if (sc
->gfp_mask
& __GFP_REPEAT
) {
2127 * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
2128 * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
2129 * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
2130 * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
2132 if (!nr_reclaimed
&& !nr_scanned
)
2136 * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
2137 * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
2138 * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
2139 * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
2140 * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
2141 * the resulting allocation attempt fails
2148 * If we have not reclaimed enough pages for compaction and the
2149 * inactive lists are large enough, continue reclaiming
2151 pages_for_compaction
= (2UL << sc
->order
);
2152 inactive_lru_pages
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
2153 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
2154 inactive_lru_pages
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
2155 if (sc
->nr_reclaimed
< pages_for_compaction
&&
2156 inactive_lru_pages
> pages_for_compaction
)
2159 /* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
2160 switch (compaction_suitable(zone
, sc
->order
)) {
2161 case COMPACT_PARTIAL
:
2162 case COMPACT_CONTINUE
:
2169 static void shrink_zone(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2171 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
, nr_scanned
;
2174 struct mem_cgroup
*root
= sc
->target_mem_cgroup
;
2175 struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie reclaim
= {
2177 .priority
= sc
->priority
,
2179 struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
;
2181 nr_reclaimed
= sc
->nr_reclaimed
;
2182 nr_scanned
= sc
->nr_scanned
;
2184 memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter(root
, NULL
, &reclaim
);
2186 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
2188 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone
, memcg
);
2190 shrink_lruvec(lruvec
, sc
);
2193 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
2194 * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
2197 * Limit reclaim, on the other hand, only cares about
2198 * nr_to_reclaim pages to be reclaimed and it will
2199 * retry with decreasing priority if one round over the
2200 * whole hierarchy is not sufficient.
2202 if (!global_reclaim(sc
) &&
2203 sc
->nr_reclaimed
>= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
) {
2204 mem_cgroup_iter_break(root
, memcg
);
2207 memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter(root
, memcg
, &reclaim
);
2210 vmpressure(sc
->gfp_mask
, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
2211 sc
->nr_scanned
- nr_scanned
,
2212 sc
->nr_reclaimed
- nr_reclaimed
);
2214 } while (should_continue_reclaim(zone
, sc
->nr_reclaimed
- nr_reclaimed
,
2215 sc
->nr_scanned
- nr_scanned
, sc
));
2218 /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
2219 static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2221 unsigned long balance_gap
, watermark
;
2224 /* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
2225 if (sc
->order
<= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
)
2229 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
2230 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
2231 * there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
2232 * a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
2234 balance_gap
= min(low_wmark_pages(zone
),
2235 (zone
->managed_pages
+ KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
-1) /
2236 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
);
2237 watermark
= high_wmark_pages(zone
) + balance_gap
+ (2UL << sc
->order
);
2238 watermark_ok
= zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone
, 0, watermark
, 0, 0);
2241 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
2242 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
2244 if (compaction_deferred(zone
, sc
->order
))
2245 return watermark_ok
;
2247 /* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
2248 if (!compaction_suitable(zone
, sc
->order
))
2251 return watermark_ok
;
2255 * This is the direct reclaim path, for page-allocating processes. We only
2256 * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
2259 * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone).
2261 * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
2263 * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones
2264 * must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min'
2265 * zone defense algorithm.
2267 * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
2268 * scan then give up on it.
2270 * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
2271 * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
2272 * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
2275 static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist
*zonelist
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2279 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed
;
2280 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned
;
2281 bool aborted_reclaim
= false;
2284 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
2285 * allowed level, force direct reclaim to scan the highmem zone as
2286 * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads
2288 if (buffer_heads_over_limit
)
2289 sc
->gfp_mask
|= __GFP_HIGHMEM
;
2291 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone
, z
, zonelist
,
2292 gfp_zone(sc
->gfp_mask
), sc
->nodemask
) {
2293 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2296 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
2299 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
2300 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
2302 if (sc
->priority
!= DEF_PRIORITY
&&
2303 !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
2304 continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
2305 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
)) {
2307 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
2308 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
2309 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
2310 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
2311 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
2312 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
2315 if (compaction_ready(zone
, sc
)) {
2316 aborted_reclaim
= true;
2321 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
2322 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
2323 * scanned pages. This works for global memory pressure
2324 * and balancing, not for a memcg's limit.
2326 nr_soft_scanned
= 0;
2327 nr_soft_reclaimed
= mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone
,
2328 sc
->order
, sc
->gfp_mask
,
2330 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= nr_soft_reclaimed
;
2331 sc
->nr_scanned
+= nr_soft_scanned
;
2332 /* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
2335 shrink_zone(zone
, sc
);
2338 return aborted_reclaim
;
2341 /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
2342 static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist
*zonelist
,
2343 struct scan_control
*sc
)
2348 for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone
, z
, zonelist
,
2349 gfp_zone(sc
->gfp_mask
), sc
->nodemask
) {
2350 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2352 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
2354 if (zone_reclaimable(zone
))
2362 * This is the main entry point to direct page reclaim.
2364 * If a full scan of the inactive list fails to free enough memory then we
2365 * are "out of memory" and something needs to be killed.
2367 * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
2368 * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
2369 * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit
2370 * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the
2371 * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not
2372 * work, and the allocation attempt will fail.
2374 * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
2375 * else, the number of pages reclaimed
2377 static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist
*zonelist
,
2378 struct scan_control
*sc
,
2379 struct shrink_control
*shrink
)
2381 unsigned long total_scanned
= 0;
2382 struct reclaim_state
*reclaim_state
= current
->reclaim_state
;
2385 unsigned long writeback_threshold
;
2386 bool aborted_reclaim
;
2388 delayacct_freepages_start();
2390 if (global_reclaim(sc
))
2391 count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL
);
2394 vmpressure_prio(sc
->gfp_mask
, sc
->target_mem_cgroup
,
2397 aborted_reclaim
= shrink_zones(zonelist
, sc
);
2400 * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from over limit
2401 * cgroups but do shrink slab at least once when aborting
2402 * reclaim for compaction to avoid unevenly scanning file/anon
2403 * LRU pages over slab pages.
2405 if (global_reclaim(sc
)) {
2406 unsigned long lru_pages
= 0;
2408 nodes_clear(shrink
->nodes_to_scan
);
2409 for_each_zone_zonelist(zone
, z
, zonelist
,
2410 gfp_zone(sc
->gfp_mask
)) {
2411 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
2414 lru_pages
+= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
);
2415 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone
),
2416 shrink
->nodes_to_scan
);
2419 shrink_slab(shrink
, sc
->nr_scanned
, lru_pages
);
2420 if (reclaim_state
) {
2421 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
;
2422 reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
= 0;
2425 total_scanned
+= sc
->nr_scanned
;
2426 if (sc
->nr_reclaimed
>= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
)
2430 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
2431 * writepage even in laptop mode.
2433 if (sc
->priority
< DEF_PRIORITY
- 2)
2434 sc
->may_writepage
= 1;
2437 * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
2438 * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
2439 * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
2440 * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
2441 * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
2443 writeback_threshold
= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
+ sc
->nr_to_reclaim
/ 2;
2444 if (total_scanned
> writeback_threshold
) {
2445 wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode
? 0 : total_scanned
,
2446 WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES
);
2447 sc
->may_writepage
= 1;
2449 } while (--sc
->priority
>= 0 && !aborted_reclaim
);
2452 delayacct_freepages_end();
2454 if (sc
->nr_reclaimed
)
2455 return sc
->nr_reclaimed
;
2458 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
2459 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
2462 if (oom_killer_disabled
)
2465 /* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
2466 if (aborted_reclaim
)
2469 /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
2470 if (global_reclaim(sc
) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist
, sc
))
2476 static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t
*pgdat
)
2479 unsigned long pfmemalloc_reserve
= 0;
2480 unsigned long free_pages
= 0;
2484 for (i
= 0; i
<= ZONE_NORMAL
; i
++) {
2485 zone
= &pgdat
->node_zones
[i
];
2486 pfmemalloc_reserve
+= min_wmark_pages(zone
);
2487 free_pages
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FREE_PAGES
);
2490 wmark_ok
= free_pages
> pfmemalloc_reserve
/ 2;
2492 /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */
2493 if (!wmark_ok
&& waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
)) {
2494 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= min(pgdat
->classzone_idx
,
2495 (enum zone_type
)ZONE_NORMAL
);
2496 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
);
2503 * Throttle direct reclaimers if backing storage is backed by the network
2504 * and the PFMEMALLOC reserve for the preferred node is getting dangerously
2505 * depleted. kswapd will continue to make progress and wake the processes
2506 * when the low watermark is reached.
2508 * Returns true if a fatal signal was delivered during throttling. If this
2509 * happens, the page allocator should not consider triggering the OOM killer.
2511 static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask
, struct zonelist
*zonelist
,
2512 nodemask_t
*nodemask
)
2515 int high_zoneidx
= gfp_zone(gfp_mask
);
2519 * Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly
2520 * responsible for cleaning pages necessary for reclaim to make forward
2521 * progress. kjournald for example may enter direct reclaim while
2522 * committing a transaction where throttling it could forcing other
2523 * processes to block on log_wait_commit().
2525 if (current
->flags
& PF_KTHREAD
)
2529 * If a fatal signal is pending, this process should not throttle.
2530 * It should return quickly so it can exit and free its memory
2532 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
2535 /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */
2536 first_zones_zonelist(zonelist
, high_zoneidx
, NULL
, &zone
);
2537 pgdat
= zone
->zone_pgdat
;
2538 if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
))
2541 /* Account for the throttling */
2542 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE
);
2545 * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it
2546 * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal
2547 * transaction in the case of a filesystem like ext[3|4]. In this case,
2548 * it is not safe to block on pfmemalloc_wait as kswapd could be
2549 * blocked waiting on the same lock. Instead, throttle for up to a
2550 * second before continuing.
2552 if (!(gfp_mask
& __GFP_FS
)) {
2553 wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
,
2554 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
), HZ
);
2559 /* Throttle until kswapd wakes the process */
2560 wait_event_killable(zone
->zone_pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
,
2561 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
));
2564 if (fatal_signal_pending(current
))
2571 unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist
*zonelist
, int order
,
2572 gfp_t gfp_mask
, nodemask_t
*nodemask
)
2574 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
2575 struct scan_control sc
= {
2576 .gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
= memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask
)),
2577 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2578 .nr_to_reclaim
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
2582 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
2583 .target_mem_cgroup
= NULL
,
2584 .nodemask
= nodemask
,
2586 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
2587 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
2591 * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal was delivered while throttled.
2592 * 1 is returned so that the page allocator does not OOM kill at this
2595 if (throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask
, zonelist
, nodemask
))
2598 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin(order
,
2602 nr_reclaimed
= do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist
, &sc
, &shrink
);
2604 trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed
);
2606 return nr_reclaimed
;
2611 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
,
2612 gfp_t gfp_mask
, bool noswap
,
2614 unsigned long *nr_scanned
)
2616 struct scan_control sc
= {
2618 .nr_to_reclaim
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
2619 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2621 .may_swap
= !noswap
,
2624 .target_mem_cgroup
= memcg
,
2626 struct lruvec
*lruvec
= mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone
, memcg
);
2628 sc
.gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
& GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
) |
2629 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
& ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
);
2631 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin(sc
.order
,
2636 * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
2637 * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
2638 * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_zone from balance_pgdat
2639 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
2640 * the priority and make it zero.
2642 shrink_lruvec(lruvec
, &sc
);
2644 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc
.nr_reclaimed
);
2646 *nr_scanned
= sc
.nr_scanned
;
2647 return sc
.nr_reclaimed
;
2650 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
,
2654 struct zonelist
*zonelist
;
2655 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
2657 struct scan_control sc
= {
2658 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2660 .may_swap
= !noswap
,
2661 .nr_to_reclaim
= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
,
2663 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
2664 .target_mem_cgroup
= memcg
,
2665 .nodemask
= NULL
, /* we don't care the placement */
2666 .gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
& GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
) |
2667 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
& ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK
),
2669 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
2670 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
2674 * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
2675 * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
2676 * scan does not need to be the current node.
2678 nid
= mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(memcg
);
2680 zonelist
= NODE_DATA(nid
)->node_zonelists
;
2682 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin(0,
2686 nr_reclaimed
= do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist
, &sc
, &shrink
);
2688 trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed
);
2690 return nr_reclaimed
;
2694 static void age_active_anon(struct zone
*zone
, struct scan_control
*sc
)
2696 struct mem_cgroup
*memcg
;
2698 if (!total_swap_pages
)
2701 memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter(NULL
, NULL
, NULL
);
2703 struct lruvec
*lruvec
= mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone
, memcg
);
2705 if (inactive_anon_is_low(lruvec
))
2706 shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
, lruvec
,
2707 sc
, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON
);
2709 memcg
= mem_cgroup_iter(NULL
, memcg
, NULL
);
2713 static bool zone_balanced(struct zone
*zone
, int order
,
2714 unsigned long balance_gap
, int classzone_idx
)
2716 if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone
, order
, high_wmark_pages(zone
) +
2717 balance_gap
, classzone_idx
, 0))
2720 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
) && order
&&
2721 !compaction_suitable(zone
, order
))
2728 * pgdat_balanced() is used when checking if a node is balanced.
2730 * For order-0, all zones must be balanced!
2732 * For high-order allocations only zones that meet watermarks and are in a
2733 * zone allowed by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The
2734 * total of balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by
2735 * classzone_idx for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to
2736 * be balanced for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are
2738 * The choice of 25% is due to
2739 * o a 16M DMA zone that is balanced will not balance a zone on any
2740 * reasonable sized machine
2741 * o On all other machines, the top zone must be at least a reasonable
2742 * percentage of the middle zones. For example, on 32-bit x86, highmem
2743 * would need to be at least 256M for it to be balance a whole node.
2744 * Similarly, on x86-64 the Normal zone would need to be at least 1G
2745 * to balance a node on its own. These seemed like reasonable ratios.
2747 static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
, int classzone_idx
)
2749 unsigned long managed_pages
= 0;
2750 unsigned long balanced_pages
= 0;
2753 /* Check the watermark levels */
2754 for (i
= 0; i
<= classzone_idx
; i
++) {
2755 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
2757 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2760 managed_pages
+= zone
->managed_pages
;
2763 * A special case here:
2765 * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
2766 * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
2767 * they must be considered balanced here as well!
2769 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone
)) {
2770 balanced_pages
+= zone
->managed_pages
;
2774 if (zone_balanced(zone
, order
, 0, i
))
2775 balanced_pages
+= zone
->managed_pages
;
2781 return balanced_pages
>= (managed_pages
>> 2);
2787 * Prepare kswapd for sleeping. This verifies that there are no processes
2788 * waiting in throttle_direct_reclaim() and that watermarks have been met.
2790 * Returns true if kswapd is ready to sleep
2792 static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
, long remaining
,
2795 /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
2800 * There is a potential race between when kswapd checks its watermarks
2801 * and a process gets throttled. There is also a potential race if
2802 * processes get throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits therby
2803 * balancing the zones that causes kswapd to miss a wakeup. If kswapd
2804 * is going to sleep, no process should be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait
2805 * so wake them now if necessary. If necessary, processes will wake
2806 * kswapd and get throttled again
2808 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
)) {
2809 wake_up(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
);
2813 return pgdat_balanced(pgdat
, order
, classzone_idx
);
2817 * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach
2818 * the high watermark.
2820 * Returns true if kswapd scanned at least the requested number of pages to
2821 * reclaim or if the lack of progress was due to pages under writeback.
2822 * This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be raised.
2824 static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone
*zone
,
2826 struct scan_control
*sc
,
2827 unsigned long lru_pages
,
2828 unsigned long *nr_attempted
)
2830 int testorder
= sc
->order
;
2831 unsigned long balance_gap
;
2832 struct reclaim_state
*reclaim_state
= current
->reclaim_state
;
2833 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
2834 .gfp_mask
= sc
->gfp_mask
,
2836 bool lowmem_pressure
;
2838 /* Reclaim above the high watermark. */
2839 sc
->nr_to_reclaim
= max(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
, high_wmark_pages(zone
));
2842 * Kswapd reclaims only single pages with compaction enabled. Trying
2843 * too hard to reclaim until contiguous free pages have become
2844 * available can hurt performance by evicting too much useful data
2845 * from memory. Do not reclaim more than needed for compaction.
2847 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION
) && sc
->order
&&
2848 compaction_suitable(zone
, sc
->order
) !=
2853 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one zone has way too
2854 * many pages free already. The "too many pages" is defined as the
2855 * high wmark plus a "gap" where the gap is either the low
2856 * watermark or 1% of the zone, whichever is smaller.
2858 balance_gap
= min(low_wmark_pages(zone
),
2859 (zone
->managed_pages
+ KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
-1) /
2860 KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO
);
2863 * If there is no low memory pressure or the zone is balanced then no
2864 * reclaim is necessary
2866 lowmem_pressure
= (buffer_heads_over_limit
&& is_highmem(zone
));
2867 if (!lowmem_pressure
&& zone_balanced(zone
, testorder
,
2868 balance_gap
, classzone_idx
))
2871 shrink_zone(zone
, sc
);
2872 nodes_clear(shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
2873 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone
), shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
2875 reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
= 0;
2876 shrink_slab(&shrink
, sc
->nr_scanned
, lru_pages
);
2877 sc
->nr_reclaimed
+= reclaim_state
->reclaimed_slab
;
2879 /* Account for the number of pages attempted to reclaim */
2880 *nr_attempted
+= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
;
2882 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_WRITEBACK
);
2885 * If a zone reaches its high watermark, consider it to be no longer
2886 * congested. It's possible there are dirty pages backed by congested
2887 * BDIs but as pressure is relieved, speculatively avoid congestion
2890 if (zone_reclaimable(zone
) &&
2891 zone_balanced(zone
, testorder
, 0, classzone_idx
)) {
2892 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_CONGESTED
);
2893 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY
);
2896 return sc
->nr_scanned
>= sc
->nr_to_reclaim
;
2900 * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
2901 * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone).
2903 * Returns the final order kswapd was reclaiming at
2905 * There is special handling here for zones which are full of pinned pages.
2906 * This can happen if the pages are all mlocked, or if they are all used by
2907 * device drivers (say, ZONE_DMA). Or if they are all in use by hugetlb.
2908 * What we do is to detect the case where all pages in the zone have been
2909 * scanned twice and there has been zero successful reclaim. Mark the zone as
2910 * dead and from now on, only perform a short scan. Basically we're polling
2911 * the zone for when the problem goes away.
2913 * kswapd scans the zones in the highmem->normal->dma direction. It skips
2914 * zones which have free_pages > high_wmark_pages(zone), but once a zone is
2915 * found to have free_pages <= high_wmark_pages(zone), we scan that zone and the
2916 * lower zones regardless of the number of free pages in the lower zones. This
2917 * interoperates with the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging
2918 * of pages is balanced across the zones.
2920 static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
,
2924 int end_zone
= 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
2925 unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed
;
2926 unsigned long nr_soft_scanned
;
2927 struct scan_control sc
= {
2928 .gfp_mask
= GFP_KERNEL
,
2929 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
2932 .may_writepage
= !laptop_mode
,
2934 .target_mem_cgroup
= NULL
,
2936 count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN
);
2939 unsigned long lru_pages
= 0;
2940 unsigned long nr_attempted
= 0;
2941 bool raise_priority
= true;
2942 bool pgdat_needs_compaction
= (order
> 0);
2944 sc
.nr_reclaimed
= 0;
2947 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
2948 * zone which needs scanning
2950 for (i
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1; i
>= 0; i
--) {
2951 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
2953 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2956 if (sc
.priority
!= DEF_PRIORITY
&&
2957 !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
2961 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give
2962 * pages a chance to be referenced before reclaiming.
2964 age_active_anon(zone
, &sc
);
2967 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine
2968 * exceeds the maximum allowed level and this node
2969 * has a highmem zone, force kswapd to reclaim from
2970 * it to relieve lowmem pressure.
2972 if (buffer_heads_over_limit
&& is_highmem_idx(i
)) {
2977 if (!zone_balanced(zone
, order
, 0, 0)) {
2982 * If balanced, clear the dirty and congested
2985 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_CONGESTED
);
2986 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY
);
2993 for (i
= 0; i
<= end_zone
; i
++) {
2994 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
2996 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
2999 lru_pages
+= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
);
3002 * If any zone is currently balanced then kswapd will
3003 * not call compaction as it is expected that the
3004 * necessary pages are already available.
3006 if (pgdat_needs_compaction
&&
3007 zone_watermark_ok(zone
, order
,
3008 low_wmark_pages(zone
),
3010 pgdat_needs_compaction
= false;
3014 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing writepage
3015 * even in laptop mode.
3017 if (sc
.priority
< DEF_PRIORITY
- 2)
3018 sc
.may_writepage
= 1;
3021 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
3022 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
3024 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
3025 * direction. This prevents the page allocator from allocating
3026 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
3027 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
3029 for (i
= 0; i
<= end_zone
; i
++) {
3030 struct zone
*zone
= pgdat
->node_zones
+ i
;
3032 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
3035 if (sc
.priority
!= DEF_PRIORITY
&&
3036 !zone_reclaimable(zone
))
3041 nr_soft_scanned
= 0;
3043 * Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
3045 nr_soft_reclaimed
= mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone
,
3048 sc
.nr_reclaimed
+= nr_soft_reclaimed
;
3051 * There should be no need to raise the scanning
3052 * priority if enough pages are already being scanned
3053 * that that high watermark would be met at 100%
3056 if (kswapd_shrink_zone(zone
, end_zone
, &sc
,
3057 lru_pages
, &nr_attempted
))
3058 raise_priority
= false;
3062 * If the low watermark is met there is no need for processes
3063 * to be throttled on pfmemalloc_wait as they should not be
3064 * able to safely make forward progress. Wake them
3066 if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
) &&
3067 pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat
))
3068 wake_up(&pgdat
->pfmemalloc_wait
);
3071 * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced
3072 * for high-order allocations in all zones. If twice the
3073 * allocation size has been reclaimed and the zones are still
3074 * not balanced then recheck the watermarks at order-0 to
3075 * prevent kswapd reclaiming excessively. Assume that a
3076 * process requested a high-order can direct reclaim/compact.
3078 if (order
&& sc
.nr_reclaimed
>= 2UL << order
)
3079 order
= sc
.order
= 0;
3081 /* Check if kswapd should be suspending */
3082 if (try_to_freeze() || kthread_should_stop())
3086 * Compact if necessary and kswapd is reclaiming at least the
3087 * high watermark number of pages as requsted
3089 if (pgdat_needs_compaction
&& sc
.nr_reclaimed
> nr_attempted
)
3090 compact_pgdat(pgdat
, order
);
3093 * Raise priority if scanning rate is too low or there was no
3094 * progress in reclaiming pages
3096 if (raise_priority
|| !sc
.nr_reclaimed
)
3098 } while (sc
.priority
>= 1 &&
3099 !pgdat_balanced(pgdat
, order
, *classzone_idx
));
3103 * Return the order we were reclaiming at so prepare_kswapd_sleep()
3104 * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However,
3105 * if another caller entered the allocator slow path while kswapd
3106 * was awake, order will remain at the higher level
3108 *classzone_idx
= end_zone
;
3112 static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t
*pgdat
, int order
, int classzone_idx
)
3117 if (freezing(current
) || kthread_should_stop())
3120 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
);
3122 /* Try to sleep for a short interval */
3123 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat
, order
, remaining
, classzone_idx
)) {
3124 remaining
= schedule_timeout(HZ
/10);
3125 finish_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
);
3126 prepare_to_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
);
3130 * After a short sleep, check if it was a premature sleep. If not, then
3131 * go fully to sleep until explicitly woken up.
3133 if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat
, order
, remaining
, classzone_idx
)) {
3134 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat
->node_id
);
3137 * vmstat counters are not perfectly accurate and the estimated
3138 * value for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES can deviate from the
3139 * true value by nr_online_cpus * threshold. To avoid the zone
3140 * watermarks being breached while under pressure, we reduce the
3141 * per-cpu vmstat threshold while kswapd is awake and restore
3142 * them before going back to sleep.
3144 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat
, calculate_normal_threshold
);
3147 * Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to
3148 * isolate pages from and skips them in the future scanning.
3149 * When kswapd is going to sleep, it is reasonable to assume
3150 * that pages and compaction may succeed so reset the cache.
3152 reset_isolation_suitable(pgdat
);
3154 if (!kthread_should_stop())
3157 set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat
, calculate_pressure_threshold
);
3160 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY
);
3162 count_vm_event(KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY
);
3164 finish_wait(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
, &wait
);
3168 * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
3169 * from the init process.
3171 * This basically trickles out pages so that we have _some_
3172 * free memory available even if there is no other activity
3173 * that frees anything up. This is needed for things like routing
3174 * etc, where we otherwise might have all activity going on in
3175 * asynchronous contexts that cannot page things out.
3177 * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators
3178 * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter.
3180 static int kswapd(void *p
)
3182 unsigned long order
, new_order
;
3183 unsigned balanced_order
;
3184 int classzone_idx
, new_classzone_idx
;
3185 int balanced_classzone_idx
;
3186 pg_data_t
*pgdat
= (pg_data_t
*)p
;
3187 struct task_struct
*tsk
= current
;
3189 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state
= {
3190 .reclaimed_slab
= 0,
3192 const struct cpumask
*cpumask
= cpumask_of_node(pgdat
->node_id
);
3194 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL
);
3196 if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask
))
3197 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk
, cpumask
);
3198 current
->reclaim_state
= &reclaim_state
;
3201 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
3202 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
3203 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
3204 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
3206 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
3207 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
3208 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
3209 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
3210 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
3212 tsk
->flags
|= PF_MEMALLOC
| PF_SWAPWRITE
| PF_KSWAPD
;
3215 order
= new_order
= 0;
3217 classzone_idx
= new_classzone_idx
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1;
3218 balanced_classzone_idx
= classzone_idx
;
3223 * If the last balance_pgdat was unsuccessful it's unlikely a
3224 * new request of a similar or harder type will succeed soon
3225 * so consider going to sleep on the basis we reclaimed at
3227 if (balanced_classzone_idx
>= new_classzone_idx
&&
3228 balanced_order
== new_order
) {
3229 new_order
= pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
;
3230 new_classzone_idx
= pgdat
->classzone_idx
;
3231 pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
= 0;
3232 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1;
3235 if (order
< new_order
|| classzone_idx
> new_classzone_idx
) {
3237 * Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
3238 * allocation or has tigher zone constraints
3241 classzone_idx
= new_classzone_idx
;
3243 kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat
, balanced_order
,
3244 balanced_classzone_idx
);
3245 order
= pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
;
3246 classzone_idx
= pgdat
->classzone_idx
;
3248 new_classzone_idx
= classzone_idx
;
3249 pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
= 0;
3250 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= pgdat
->nr_zones
- 1;
3253 ret
= try_to_freeze();
3254 if (kthread_should_stop())
3258 * We can speed up thawing tasks if we don't call balance_pgdat
3259 * after returning from the refrigerator
3262 trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake(pgdat
->node_id
, order
);
3263 balanced_classzone_idx
= classzone_idx
;
3264 balanced_order
= balance_pgdat(pgdat
, order
,
3265 &balanced_classzone_idx
);
3269 current
->reclaim_state
= NULL
;
3274 * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
3276 void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone
*zone
, int order
, enum zone_type classzone_idx
)
3280 if (!populated_zone(zone
))
3283 if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone
, GFP_KERNEL
))
3285 pgdat
= zone
->zone_pgdat
;
3286 if (pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
< order
) {
3287 pgdat
->kswapd_max_order
= order
;
3288 pgdat
->classzone_idx
= min(pgdat
->classzone_idx
, classzone_idx
);
3290 if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
))
3292 if (zone_balanced(zone
, order
, 0, 0))
3295 trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat
->node_id
, zone_idx(zone
), order
);
3296 wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat
->kswapd_wait
);
3300 * The reclaimable count would be mostly accurate.
3301 * The less reclaimable pages may be
3302 * - mlocked pages, which will be moved to unevictable list when encountered
3303 * - mapped pages, which may require several travels to be reclaimed
3304 * - dirty pages, which is not "instantly" reclaimable
3306 unsigned long global_reclaimable_pages(void)
3310 nr
= global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE
) +
3311 global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE
);
3313 if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
3314 nr
+= global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON
) +
3315 global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON
);
3320 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
3322 * Try to free `nr_to_reclaim' of memory, system-wide, and return the number of
3325 * Rather than trying to age LRUs the aim is to preserve the overall
3326 * LRU order by reclaiming preferentially
3327 * inactive > active > active referenced > active mapped
3329 unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim
)
3331 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state
;
3332 struct scan_control sc
= {
3333 .gfp_mask
= GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
,
3337 .nr_to_reclaim
= nr_to_reclaim
,
3338 .hibernation_mode
= 1,
3340 .priority
= DEF_PRIORITY
,
3342 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
3343 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
3345 struct zonelist
*zonelist
= node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), sc
.gfp_mask
);
3346 struct task_struct
*p
= current
;
3347 unsigned long nr_reclaimed
;
3349 p
->flags
|= PF_MEMALLOC
;
3350 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(sc
.gfp_mask
);
3351 reclaim_state
.reclaimed_slab
= 0;
3352 p
->reclaim_state
= &reclaim_state
;
3354 nr_reclaimed
= do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist
, &sc
, &shrink
);
3356 p
->reclaim_state
= NULL
;
3357 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3358 p
->flags
&= ~PF_MEMALLOC
;
3360 return nr_reclaimed
;
3362 #endif /* CONFIG_HIBERNATION */
3364 /* It's optimal to keep kswapds on the same CPUs as their memory, but
3365 not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes
3366 away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back,
3367 restore their cpu bindings. */
3368 static int cpu_callback(struct notifier_block
*nfb
, unsigned long action
,
3373 if (action
== CPU_ONLINE
|| action
== CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN
) {
3374 for_each_node_state(nid
, N_MEMORY
) {
3375 pg_data_t
*pgdat
= NODE_DATA(nid
);
3376 const struct cpumask
*mask
;
3378 mask
= cpumask_of_node(pgdat
->node_id
);
3380 if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask
, mask
) < nr_cpu_ids
)
3381 /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
3382 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat
->kswapd
, mask
);
3389 * This kswapd start function will be called by init and node-hot-add.
3390 * On node-hot-add, kswapd will moved to proper cpus if cpus are hot-added.
3392 int kswapd_run(int nid
)
3394 pg_data_t
*pgdat
= NODE_DATA(nid
);
3400 pgdat
->kswapd
= kthread_run(kswapd
, pgdat
, "kswapd%d", nid
);
3401 if (IS_ERR(pgdat
->kswapd
)) {
3402 /* failure at boot is fatal */
3403 BUG_ON(system_state
== SYSTEM_BOOTING
);
3404 pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid
);
3405 ret
= PTR_ERR(pgdat
->kswapd
);
3406 pgdat
->kswapd
= NULL
;
3412 * Called by memory hotplug when all memory in a node is offlined. Caller must
3413 * hold lock_memory_hotplug().
3415 void kswapd_stop(int nid
)
3417 struct task_struct
*kswapd
= NODE_DATA(nid
)->kswapd
;
3420 kthread_stop(kswapd
);
3421 NODE_DATA(nid
)->kswapd
= NULL
;
3425 static int __init
kswapd_init(void)
3430 for_each_node_state(nid
, N_MEMORY
)
3432 hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback
, 0);
3436 module_init(kswapd_init
)
3442 * If non-zero call zone_reclaim when the number of free pages falls below
3445 int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly
;
3447 #define RECLAIM_OFF 0
3448 #define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0) /* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
3449 #define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1) /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
3450 #define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2) /* Swap pages out during reclaim */
3453 * Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
3454 * of a node considered for each zone_reclaim. 4 scans 1/16th of
3457 #define ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY 4
3460 * Percentage of pages in a zone that must be unmapped for zone_reclaim to
3463 int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio
= 1;
3466 * If the number of slab pages in a zone grows beyond this percentage then
3467 * slab reclaim needs to occur.
3469 int sysctl_min_slab_ratio
= 5;
3471 static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone
*zone
)
3473 unsigned long file_mapped
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_MAPPED
);
3474 unsigned long file_lru
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_INACTIVE_FILE
) +
3475 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_ACTIVE_FILE
);
3478 * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than
3479 * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because
3480 * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED
3482 return (file_lru
> file_mapped
) ? (file_lru
- file_mapped
) : 0;
3485 /* Work out how many page cache pages we can reclaim in this reclaim_mode */
3486 static long zone_pagecache_reclaimable(struct zone
*zone
)
3488 long nr_pagecache_reclaimable
;
3492 * If RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then all file pages are considered
3493 * potentially reclaimable. Otherwise, we have to worry about
3494 * pages like swapcache and zone_unmapped_file_pages() provides
3497 if (zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_SWAP
)
3498 nr_pagecache_reclaimable
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_PAGES
);
3500 nr_pagecache_reclaimable
= zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone
);
3502 /* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */
3503 if (!(zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_WRITE
))
3504 delta
+= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_FILE_DIRTY
);
3506 /* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */
3507 if (unlikely(delta
> nr_pagecache_reclaimable
))
3508 delta
= nr_pagecache_reclaimable
;
3510 return nr_pagecache_reclaimable
- delta
;
3514 * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
3516 static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone
*zone
, gfp_t gfp_mask
, unsigned int order
)
3518 /* Minimum pages needed in order to stay on node */
3519 const unsigned long nr_pages
= 1 << order
;
3520 struct task_struct
*p
= current
;
3521 struct reclaim_state reclaim_state
;
3522 struct scan_control sc
= {
3523 .may_writepage
= !!(zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_WRITE
),
3524 .may_unmap
= !!(zone_reclaim_mode
& RECLAIM_SWAP
),
3526 .nr_to_reclaim
= max(nr_pages
, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
),
3527 .gfp_mask
= (gfp_mask
= memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask
)),
3529 .priority
= ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY
,
3531 struct shrink_control shrink
= {
3532 .gfp_mask
= sc
.gfp_mask
,
3534 unsigned long nr_slab_pages0
, nr_slab_pages1
;
3538 * We need to be able to allocate from the reserves for RECLAIM_SWAP
3539 * and we also need to be able to write out pages for RECLAIM_WRITE
3542 p
->flags
|= PF_MEMALLOC
| PF_SWAPWRITE
;
3543 lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask
);
3544 reclaim_state
.reclaimed_slab
= 0;
3545 p
->reclaim_state
= &reclaim_state
;
3547 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone
) > zone
->min_unmapped_pages
) {
3549 * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing
3550 * priorities until we have enough memory freed.
3553 shrink_zone(zone
, &sc
);
3554 } while (sc
.nr_reclaimed
< nr_pages
&& --sc
.priority
>= 0);
3557 nr_slab_pages0
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
);
3558 if (nr_slab_pages0
> zone
->min_slab_pages
) {
3560 * shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how
3561 * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current
3562 * number of slab pages and shake the slab until it is reduced
3563 * by the same nr_pages that we used for reclaiming unmapped
3566 nodes_clear(shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
3567 node_set(zone_to_nid(zone
), shrink
.nodes_to_scan
);
3569 unsigned long lru_pages
= zone_reclaimable_pages(zone
);
3571 /* No reclaimable slab or very low memory pressure */
3572 if (!shrink_slab(&shrink
, sc
.nr_scanned
, lru_pages
))
3575 /* Freed enough memory */
3576 nr_slab_pages1
= zone_page_state(zone
,
3577 NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
);
3578 if (nr_slab_pages1
+ nr_pages
<= nr_slab_pages0
)
3583 * Update nr_reclaimed by the number of slab pages we
3584 * reclaimed from this zone.
3586 nr_slab_pages1
= zone_page_state(zone
, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
);
3587 if (nr_slab_pages1
< nr_slab_pages0
)
3588 sc
.nr_reclaimed
+= nr_slab_pages0
- nr_slab_pages1
;
3591 p
->reclaim_state
= NULL
;
3592 current
->flags
&= ~(PF_MEMALLOC
| PF_SWAPWRITE
);
3593 lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state();
3594 return sc
.nr_reclaimed
>= nr_pages
;
3597 int zone_reclaim(struct zone
*zone
, gfp_t gfp_mask
, unsigned int order
)
3603 * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
3604 * slab pages if we are over the defined limits.
3606 * A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
3607 * file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
3608 * thrown out if the zone is overallocated. So we do not reclaim
3609 * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by
3610 * unmapped file backed pages.
3612 if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone
) <= zone
->min_unmapped_pages
&&
3613 zone_page_state(zone
, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE
) <= zone
->min_slab_pages
)
3614 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL
;
3616 if (!zone_reclaimable(zone
))
3617 return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL
;
3620 * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
3622 if (!(gfp_mask
& __GFP_WAIT
) || (current
->flags
& PF_MEMALLOC
))
3623 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN
;
3626 * Only run zone reclaim on the local zone or on zones that do not
3627 * have associated processors. This will favor the local processor
3628 * over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations
3629 * as wide as possible.
3631 node_id
= zone_to_nid(zone
);
3632 if (node_state(node_id
, N_CPU
) && node_id
!= numa_node_id())
3633 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN
;
3635 if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone
, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED
))
3636 return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN
;
3638 ret
= __zone_reclaim(zone
, gfp_mask
, order
);
3639 zone_clear_flag(zone
, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED
);
3642 count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED
);
3649 * page_evictable - test whether a page is evictable
3650 * @page: the page to test
3652 * Test whether page is evictable--i.e., should be placed on active/inactive
3653 * lists vs unevictable list.
3655 * Reasons page might not be evictable:
3656 * (1) page's mapping marked unevictable
3657 * (2) page is part of an mlocked VMA
3660 int page_evictable(struct page
*page
)
3662 return !mapping_unevictable(page_mapping(page
)) && !PageMlocked(page
);
3667 * check_move_unevictable_pages - check pages for evictability and move to appropriate zone lru list
3668 * @pages: array of pages to check
3669 * @nr_pages: number of pages to check
3671 * Checks pages for evictability and moves them to the appropriate lru list.
3673 * This function is only used for SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK.
3675 void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page
**pages
, int nr_pages
)
3677 struct lruvec
*lruvec
;
3678 struct zone
*zone
= NULL
;
3683 for (i
= 0; i
< nr_pages
; i
++) {
3684 struct page
*page
= pages
[i
];
3685 struct zone
*pagezone
;
3688 pagezone
= page_zone(page
);
3689 if (pagezone
!= zone
) {
3691 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
3693 spin_lock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
3695 lruvec
= mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page
, zone
);
3697 if (!PageLRU(page
) || !PageUnevictable(page
))
3700 if (page_evictable(page
)) {
3701 enum lru_list lru
= page_lru_base_type(page
);
3703 VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page
));
3704 ClearPageUnevictable(page
);
3705 del_page_from_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, LRU_UNEVICTABLE
);
3706 add_page_to_lru_list(page
, lruvec
, lru
);
3712 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED
, pgrescued
);
3713 __count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED
, pgscanned
);
3714 spin_unlock_irq(&zone
->lru_lock
);
3717 #endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
3719 static void warn_scan_unevictable_pages(void)
3721 printk_once(KERN_WARNING
3722 "%s: The scan_unevictable_pages sysctl/node-interface has been "
3723 "disabled for lack of a legitimate use case. If you have "
3724 "one, please send an email to linux-mm@kvack.org.\n",
3729 * scan_unevictable_pages [vm] sysctl handler. On demand re-scan of
3730 * all nodes' unevictable lists for evictable pages
3732 unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages
;
3734 int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table
*table
, int write
,
3735 void __user
*buffer
,
3736 size_t *length
, loff_t
*ppos
)
3738 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3739 proc_doulongvec_minmax(table
, write
, buffer
, length
, ppos
);
3740 scan_unevictable_pages
= 0;
3746 * per node 'scan_unevictable_pages' attribute. On demand re-scan of
3747 * a specified node's per zone unevictable lists for evictable pages.
3750 static ssize_t
read_scan_unevictable_node(struct device
*dev
,
3751 struct device_attribute
*attr
,
3754 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3755 return sprintf(buf
, "0\n"); /* always zero; should fit... */
3758 static ssize_t
write_scan_unevictable_node(struct device
*dev
,
3759 struct device_attribute
*attr
,
3760 const char *buf
, size_t count
)
3762 warn_scan_unevictable_pages();
3767 static DEVICE_ATTR(scan_unevictable_pages
, S_IRUGO
| S_IWUSR
,
3768 read_scan_unevictable_node
,
3769 write_scan_unevictable_node
);
3771 int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node
*node
)
3773 return device_create_file(&node
->dev
, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages
);
3776 void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node
*node
)
3778 device_remove_file(&node
->dev
, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages
);