mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ enum positive_aop_returns {
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struct page;
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struct address_space;
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struct writeback_control;
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enum migrate_mode;
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struct iov_iter {
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const struct iovec *iov;
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@@ -614,7 +615,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
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* is false, it must not block.
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*/
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int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *,
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struct page *, struct page *, bool);
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struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
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int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
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int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *,
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unsigned long);
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@@ -2540,7 +2541,8 @@ extern int generic_check_addressable(unsigned, u64);
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#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
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extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
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struct page *, struct page *, bool);
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struct page *, struct page *,
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enum migrate_mode);
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#else
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#define buffer_migrate_page NULL
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#endif
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