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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:23:15 +0900
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:23:15 +0900
commit9e2d8656f5e8aa214e66b462680cf86b210b74a8 (patch)
treef67d62e896cedf75599ea45f9ecf9999c6ad24cd /Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
parent1ea4f4f8405cc1ceec23f2d261bc3775785e6712 (diff)
parent9e695d2ecc8451cc2c1603d60b5c8e7f5581923a (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge patches from Andrew Morton: "A few misc things and very nearly all of the MM tree. A tremendous amount of stuff (again), including a significant rbtree library rework." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (160 commits) sparc64: Support transparent huge pages. mm: thp: Use more portable PMD clearing sequenece in zap_huge_pmd(). mm: Add and use update_mmu_cache_pmd() in transparent huge page code. sparc64: Document PGD and PMD layout. sparc64: Eliminate PTE table memory wastage. sparc64: Halve the size of PTE tables sparc64: Only support 4MB huge pages and 8KB base pages. memory-hotplug: suppress "Trying to free nonexistent resource <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY>" warning mm: memcg: clean up mm_match_cgroup() signature mm: document PageHuge somewhat mm: use %pK for /proc/vmallocinfo mm, thp: fix mlock statistics mm, thp: fix mapped pages avoiding unevictable list on mlock memory-hotplug: update memory block's state and notify userspace memory-hotplug: preparation to notify memory block's state at memory hot remove mm: avoid section mismatch warning for memblock_type_name make GFP_NOTRACK definition unconditional cma: decrease cc.nr_migratepages after reclaiming pagelist CMA: migrate mlocked pages kpageflags: fix wrong KPF_THP on non-huge compound pages ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
index fa206cccf89f..a68db7692ee8 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
@@ -197,12 +197,8 @@ the pages are also "rescued" from the unevictable list in the process of
freeing them.
page_evictable() also checks for mlocked pages by testing an additional page
-flag, PG_mlocked (as wrapped by PageMlocked()). If the page is NOT mlocked,
-and a non-NULL VMA is supplied, page_evictable() will check whether the VMA is
-VM_LOCKED via is_mlocked_vma(). is_mlocked_vma() will SetPageMlocked() and
-update the appropriate statistics if the vma is VM_LOCKED. This method allows
-efficient "culling" of pages in the fault path that are being faulted in to
-VM_LOCKED VMAs.
+flag, PG_mlocked (as wrapped by PageMlocked()), which is set when a page is
+faulted into a VM_LOCKED vma, or found in a vma being VM_LOCKED.
VMSCAN'S HANDLING OF UNEVICTABLE PAGES
@@ -371,8 +367,8 @@ mlock_fixup() filters several classes of "special" VMAs:
mlock_fixup() will call make_pages_present() in the hugetlbfs VMA range to
allocate the huge pages and populate the ptes.
-3) VMAs with VM_DONTEXPAND or VM_RESERVED are generally userspace mappings of
- kernel pages, such as the VDSO page, relay channel pages, etc. These pages
+3) VMAs with VM_DONTEXPAND are generally userspace mappings of kernel pages,
+ such as the VDSO page, relay channel pages, etc. These pages
are inherently unevictable and are not managed on the LRU lists.
mlock_fixup() treats these VMAs the same as hugetlbfs VMAs. It calls
make_pages_present() to populate the ptes.
@@ -651,7 +647,7 @@ PAGE RECLAIM IN shrink_*_list()
-------------------------------
shrink_active_list() culls any obviously unevictable pages - i.e.
-!page_evictable(page, NULL) - diverting these to the unevictable list.
+!page_evictable(page) - diverting these to the unevictable list.
However, shrink_active_list() only sees unevictable pages that made it onto the
active/inactive lru lists. Note that these pages do not have PageUnevictable
set - otherwise they would be on the unevictable list and shrink_active_list