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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2012-10-09 03:33:48 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 11:23:00 +0400
commite46a28790e594c0876d1a84270926abf75460f61 (patch)
treefebfaa6c20dab69490308190729f1d898e4df930 /mm/vmscan.c
parent7a71932d5676b7410ab64d149bad8bde6b0d8632 (diff)
downloadlinux-e46a28790e594c0876d1a84270926abf75460f61.tar.xz
CMA: migrate mlocked pages
Presently CMA cannot migrate mlocked pages so it ends up failing to allocate contiguous memory space. This patch makes mlocked pages be migrated out. Of course, it can affect realtime processes but in CMA usecase, contiguous memory allocation failing is far worse than access latency to an mlocked page being variable while CMA is running. If someone wants to make the system realtime, he shouldn't enable CMA because stalls can still happen at random times. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, per Mel] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 8b627309dd44..2624edcfb420 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1009,8 +1009,8 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
if (!PageLRU(page))
return ret;
- /* Do not give back unevictable pages for compaction */
- if (PageUnevictable(page))
+ /* Compaction should not handle unevictable pages but CMA can do so */
+ if (PageUnevictable(page) && !(mode & ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE))
return ret;
ret = -EBUSY;