/* * linux/mm/vmscan.c * * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Linus Torvalds * * Swap reorganised 29.12.95, Stephen Tweedie. * kswapd added: 7.1.96 sct * Removed kswapd_ctl limits, and swap out as many pages as needed * to bring the system back to freepages.high: 2.4.97, Rik van Riel. * Version: $Id: vmscan.c,v 1.5 1998/02/23 22:14:28 sct Exp $ */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /* * The swap-out functions return 1 if they successfully * threw something out, and we got a free page. It returns * zero if it couldn't do anything, and any other value * indicates it decreased rss, but the page was shared. * * NOTE! If it sleeps, it *must* return 1 to make sure we * don't continue with the swap-out. Otherwise we may be * using a process that no longer actually exists (it might * have died while we slept). */ static int try_to_swap_out(struct vm_area_struct* vma, unsigned long address, pte_t * page_table, int gfp_mask) { pte_t pte; unsigned long entry; unsigned long page_addr; struct page * page; pte = *page_table; if (!pte_present(pte)) goto out_failed; page_addr = pte_page(pte); if (MAP_NR(page_addr) >= max_mapnr) goto out_failed; page = mem_map + MAP_NR(page_addr); spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); if (pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*page_table)) goto out_failed_unlock; /* Don't look at this pte if it's been accessed recently. */ if (pte_young(pte)) { /* * Transfer the "accessed" bit from the page * tables to the global page map. */ set_pte(page_table, pte_mkold(pte)); set_bit(PG_referenced, &page->flags); goto out_failed_unlock; } if (PageReserved(page) || PageLocked(page) || ((gfp_mask & __GFP_DMA) && !PageDMA(page)) || (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_BIGMEM) && PageBIGMEM(page))) goto out_failed_unlock; /* * Is the page already in the swap cache? If so, then * we can just drop our reference to it without doing * any IO - it's already up-to-date on disk. * * Return 0, as we didn't actually free any real * memory, and we should just continue our scan. */ if (PageSwapCache(page)) { entry = page->offset; swap_duplicate(entry); set_pte(page_table, __pte(entry)); drop_pte: vma->vm_mm->rss--; flush_tlb_page(vma, address); __free_page(page); goto out_failed_unlock; } /* * Is it a clean page? Then it must be recoverable * by just paging it in again, and we can just drop * it.. * * However, this won't actually free any real * memory, as the page will just be in the page cache * somewhere, and as such we should just continue * our scan. * * Basically, this just makes it possible for us to do * some real work in the future in "shrink_mmap()". */ if (!pte_dirty(pte)) { pte_clear(page_table); goto drop_pte; } /* * Don't go down into the swap-out stuff if * we cannot do I/O! Avoid recursing on FS * locks etc. */ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) goto out_failed_unlock; /* * Ok, it's really dirty. That means that * we should either create a new swap cache * entry for it, or we should write it back * to its own backing store. * * Note that in neither case do we actually * know that we make a page available, but * as we potentially sleep we can no longer * continue scanning, so we migth as well * assume we free'd something. * * NOTE NOTE NOTE! This should just set a * dirty bit in 'page', and just drop the * pte. All the hard work would be done by * shrink_mmap(). * * That would get rid of a lot of problems. */ flush_cache_page(vma, address); if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->swapout) { int error; pte_clear(page_table); spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); flush_tlb_page(vma, address); vma->vm_mm->rss--; error = vma->vm_ops->swapout(vma, page); if (!error) goto out_free_success; __free_page(page); return error; } /* * This is a dirty, swappable page. First of all, * get a suitable swap entry for it, and make sure * we have the swap cache set up to associate the * page with that swap entry. */ entry = acquire_swap_entry(page); if (!entry) goto out_failed_unlock; /* No swap space left */ if (!(page = prepare_bigmem_swapout(page))) goto out_swap_free_unlock; vma->vm_mm->rss--; set_pte(page_table, __pte(entry)); spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); flush_tlb_page(vma, address); swap_duplicate(entry); /* One for the process, one for the swap cache */ /* This will also lock the page */ add_to_swap_cache(page, entry); /* OK, do a physical asynchronous write to swap. */ rw_swap_page(WRITE, page, 0); out_free_success: __free_page(page); return 1; out_failed_unlock: spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); out_failed: return 0; out_swap_free_unlock: swap_free(entry); spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock); return 0; } /* * A new implementation of swap_out(). We do not swap complete processes, * but only a small number of blocks, before we continue with the next * process. The number of blocks actually swapped is determined on the * number of page faults, that this process actually had in the last time, * so we won't swap heavily used processes all the time ... * * Note: the priority argument is a hint on much CPU to waste with the * swap block search, not a hint, of how much blocks to swap with * each process. * * (C) 1993 Kai Petzke, wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de */ static inline int swap_out_pmd(struct vm_area_struct * vma, pmd_t *dir, unsigned long address, unsigned long end, int gfp_mask) { pte_t * pte; unsigned long pmd_end; if (pmd_none(*dir)) return 0; if (pmd_bad(*dir)) { printk("swap_out_pmd: bad pmd (%08lx)\n", pmd_val(*dir)); pmd_clear(dir); return 0; } pte = pte_offset(dir, address); pmd_end = (address + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK; if (end > pmd_end) end = pmd_end; do { int result; vma->vm_mm->swap_address = address + PAGE_SIZE; result = try_to_swap_out(vma, address, pte, gfp_mask); if (result) return result; address += PAGE_SIZE; pte++; } while (address < end); return 0; } static inline int swap_out_pgd(struct vm_area_struct * vma, pgd_t *dir, unsigned long address, unsigned long end, int gfp_mask) { pmd_t * pmd; unsigned long pgd_end; if (pgd_none(*dir)) return 0; if (pgd_bad(*dir)) { printk("swap_out_pgd: bad pgd (%08lx)\n", pgd_val(*dir)); pgd_clear(dir); return 0; } pmd = pmd_offset(dir, address); pgd_end = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK; if (end > pgd_end) end = pgd_end; do { int result = swap_out_pmd(vma, pmd, address, end, gfp_mask); if (result) return result; address = (address + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK; pmd++; } while (address < end); return 0; } static int swap_out_vma(struct vm_area_struct * vma, unsigned long address, int gfp_mask) { pgd_t *pgdir; unsigned long end; /* Don't swap out areas which are locked down */ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) return 0; pgdir = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, address); end = vma->vm_end; while (address < end) { int result = swap_out_pgd(vma, pgdir, address, end, gfp_mask); if (result) return result; address = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK; pgdir++; } return 0; } static int swap_out_mm(struct mm_struct * mm, int gfp_mask) { unsigned long address; struct vm_area_struct* vma; /* * Go through process' page directory. */ address = mm->swap_address; /* * Find the proper vm-area */ vma = find_vma(mm, address); if (vma) { if (address < vma->vm_start) address = vma->vm_start; for (;;) { int result = swap_out_vma(vma, address, gfp_mask); if (result) return result; vma = vma->vm_next; if (!vma) break; address = vma->vm_start; } } /* We didn't find anything for the process */ mm->swap_cnt = 0; mm->swap_address = 0; return 0; } /* * Select the task with maximal swap_cnt and try to swap out a page. * N.B. This function returns only 0 or 1. Return values != 1 from * the lower level routines result in continued processing. */ static int swap_out(unsigned int priority, int gfp_mask) { struct task_struct * p; int counter; int __ret = 0; lock_kernel(); /* * We make one or two passes through the task list, indexed by * assign = {0, 1}: * Pass 1: select the swappable task with maximal RSS that has * not yet been swapped out. * Pass 2: re-assign rss swap_cnt values, then select as above. * * With this approach, there's no need to remember the last task * swapped out. If the swap-out fails, we clear swap_cnt so the * task won't be selected again until all others have been tried. * * Think of swap_cnt as a "shadow rss" - it tells us which process * we want to page out (always try largest first). */ counter = nr_threads / (priority+1); if (counter < 1) counter = 1; if (counter > nr_threads) counter = nr_threads; for (; counter >= 0; counter--) { int assign = 0; int max_cnt = 0; struct mm_struct *best = NULL; int pid = 0; select: read_lock(&tasklist_lock); p = init_task.next_task; for (; p != &init_task; p = p->next_task) { struct mm_struct *mm = p->mm; if (!p->swappable || !mm) continue; if (mm->rss <= 0) continue; /* Refresh swap_cnt? */ if (assign) mm->swap_cnt = mm->rss; if (mm->swap_cnt > max_cnt) { max_cnt = mm->swap_cnt; best = mm; pid = p->pid; } } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); if (!best) { if (!assign) { assign = 1; goto select; } goto out; } else { int ret; atomic_inc(&best->mm_count); ret = swap_out_mm(best, gfp_mask); mmdrop(best); if (!ret) continue; if (ret < 0) kill_proc(pid, SIGBUS, 1); __ret = 1; goto out; } } out: unlock_kernel(); return __ret; } /* * We need to make the locks finer granularity, but right * now we need this so that we can do page allocations * without holding the kernel lock etc. * * We want to try to free "count" pages, and we need to * cluster them so that we get good swap-out behaviour. See * the "free_memory()" macro for details. */ static int do_try_to_free_pages(unsigned int gfp_mask) { int priority; int count = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX; /* Always trim SLAB caches when memory gets low. */ kmem_cache_reap(gfp_mask); priority = 6; do { while (shrink_mmap(priority, gfp_mask)) { if (!--count) goto done; } /* Try to get rid of some shared memory pages.. */ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_IO) { while (shm_swap(priority, gfp_mask)) { if (!--count) goto done; } } /* Then, try to page stuff out.. */ while (swap_out(priority, gfp_mask)) { if (!--count) goto done; } shrink_dcache_memory(priority, gfp_mask); } while (--priority >= 0); done: return priority >= 0; } static struct task_struct *kswapd_process; /* * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread * from the init process. * * This basically executes once a second, trickling out pages * so that we have _some_ free memory available even if there * is no other activity that frees anything up. This is needed * for things like routing etc, where we otherwise might have * all activity going on in asynchronous contexts that cannot * page things out. * * If there are applications that are active memory-allocators * (most normal use), this basically shouldn't matter. */ int kswapd(void *unused) { struct task_struct *tsk = current; kswapd_process = tsk; tsk->session = 1; tsk->pgrp = 1; strcpy(tsk->comm, "kswapd"); sigfillset(&tsk->blocked); /* * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator", * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it * regardless (see "__get_free_pages()"). "kswapd" should * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic. * * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place). */ tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; while (1) { /* * Wake up once a second to see if we need to make * more memory available. * * If we actually get into a low-memory situation, * the processes needing more memory will wake us * up on a more timely basis. */ do { /* kswapd is critical to provide GFP_ATOMIC allocations (not GFP_BIGMEM ones). */ if (nr_free_pages - nr_free_bigpages >= freepages.high) break; if (!do_try_to_free_pages(GFP_KSWAPD)) break; run_task_queue(&tq_disk); } while (!tsk->need_resched); tsk->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; schedule_timeout(HZ); } } /* * Called by non-kswapd processes when they want more * memory. * * In a perfect world, this should just wake up kswapd * and return. We don't actually want to swap stuff out * from user processes, because the locking issues are * nasty to the extreme (file write locks, and MM locking) * * One option might be to let kswapd do all the page-out * and VM page table scanning that needs locking, and this * process thread could do just the mmap shrink stage that * can be done by just dropping cached pages without having * any deadlock issues. */ int try_to_free_pages(unsigned int gfp_mask) { int retval = 1; wake_up_process(kswapd_process); if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) retval = do_try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask); return retval; } static int __init kswapd_init(void) { printk("Starting kswapd v1.6\n"); swap_setup(); kernel_thread(kswapd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND); return 0; } module_init(kswapd_init)