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shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure

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Even if user asked to allocate huge pages always (huge=always), we
should be able to free up some memory by splitting pages which are
partly byound i_size if memory presure comes or once we hit limit on
filesystem size (-o size=).

In order to do this we maintain per-superblock list of inodes, which
potentially have huge pages on the border of file size.

Per-fs shrinker can reclaim memory by splitting such pages.

If we hit -ENOSPC during shmem_getpage_gfp(), we try to split a page to
free up space on the filesystem and retry allocation if it succeed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-37-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-07-26 15:26:38 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e496cf3d78
commit 779750d20b
2 changed files with 180 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ struct shmem_inode_info {
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long alloced; /* data pages alloced to file */
unsigned long swapped; /* subtotal assigned to swap */
struct shared_policy policy; /* NUMA memory alloc policy */
struct list_head shrinklist; /* shrinkable hpage inodes */
struct list_head swaplist; /* chain of maybes on swap */
struct shared_policy policy; /* NUMA memory alloc policy */
struct simple_xattrs xattrs; /* list of xattrs */
struct inode vfs_inode;
};
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ struct shmem_sb_info {
kuid_t uid; /* Mount uid for root directory */
kgid_t gid; /* Mount gid for root directory */
struct mempolicy *mpol; /* default memory policy for mappings */
spinlock_t shrinklist_lock; /* Protects shrinklist */
struct list_head shrinklist; /* List of shinkable inodes */
unsigned long shrinklist_len; /* Length of shrinklist */
};
static inline struct shmem_inode_info *SHMEM_I(struct inode *inode)