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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/migrate.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/trace/events/migrate.h | 3 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index 175ef15ae9e8..4bb4e519e3f5 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ enum migrate_reason { MR_MEMPOLICY_MBIND, MR_NUMA_MISPLACED, MR_CONTIG_RANGE, + MR_LONGTERM_PIN, MR_TYPES }; diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 92b44149d5b9..e8922a67d1a4 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -407,8 +407,13 @@ enum zone_type { * to increase the number of THP/huge pages. Notable special cases are: * * 1. Pinned pages: (long-term) pinning of movable pages might - * essentially turn such pages unmovable. Memory offlining might - * retry a long time. + * essentially turn such pages unmovable. Therefore, we do not allow + * pinning long-term pages in ZONE_MOVABLE. When pages are pinned and + * faulted, they come from the right zone right away. However, it is + * still possible that address space already has pages in + * ZONE_MOVABLE at the time when pages are pinned (i.e. user has + * touches that memory before pinning). In such case we migrate them + * to a different zone. When migration fails - pinning fails. * 2. memblock allocations: kernelcore/movablecore setups might create * situations where ZONE_MOVABLE contains unmovable allocations * after boot. Memory offlining and allocations fail early. diff --git a/include/trace/events/migrate.h b/include/trace/events/migrate.h index f2c990603888..9fb2a3bbcdfb 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/migrate.h +++ b/include/trace/events/migrate.h @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ EM( MR_SYSCALL, "syscall_or_cpuset") \ EM( MR_MEMPOLICY_MBIND, "mempolicy_mbind") \ EM( MR_NUMA_MISPLACED, "numa_misplaced") \ - EMe(MR_CONTIG_RANGE, "contig_range") + EM( MR_CONTIG_RANGE, "contig_range") \ + EMe(MR_LONGTERM_PIN, "longterm_pin") /* * First define the enums in the above macros to be exported to userspace |