Kernel/linux-next
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git synced 2024-12-29 09:12:07 +00:00
Code Issues Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_NOOP

Browse Source 
This patch augments the MPOL_MF_LAZY feature by adding a "NOOP" policy
to mbind().  When the NOOP policy is used with the 'MOVE and 'LAZY
flags, mbind() will map the pages PROT_NONE so that they will be
migrated on the next touch.

This allows an application to prepare for a new phase of operation
where different regions of shared storage will be assigned to
worker threads, w/o changing policy.  Note that we could just use
"default" policy in this case.  However, this also allows an
application to request that pages be migrated, only if necessary,
to follow any arbitrary policy that might currently apply to a
range of pages, without knowing the policy, or without specifying
multiple mbind()s for ranges with different policies.

[ Bug in early version of mpol_parse_str() reported by Fengguang Wu. ]

Bug-Reported-by: Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
This commit is contained in:
Lee Schermerhorn 2012-10-25 14:16:29 +02:00 committed by Mel Gorman
parent 479e2802d0
commit d3a710337b
2 changed files with 7 additions and 5 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

1
include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
View File

@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ enum {
MPOL_BIND,
MPOL_INTERLEAVE,
MPOL_LOCAL,
MPOL_NOOP, /* retain existing policy for range */
MPOL_MAX, /* always last member of enum */
};

11
mm/mempolicy.c
View File

@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *mpol_new(unsigned short mode, unsigned short flags,
pr_debug("setting mode %d flags %d nodes[0] %lx\n",
mode, flags, nodes ? nodes_addr(*nodes)[0] : -1);
if (mode == MPOL_DEFAULT) {
if (mode == MPOL_DEFAULT || mode == MPOL_NOOP) {
if (nodes && !nodes_empty(*nodes))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return NULL; /* simply delete any existing policy */
return NULL;
}
VM_BUG_ON(!nodes);
@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
return -EINVAL;
if (mode == MPOL_DEFAULT)
if (mode == MPOL_DEFAULT || mode == MPOL_NOOP)
flags &= ~MPOL_MF_STRICT;
len = (len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
@ -2409,7 +2409,8 @@ static const char * const policy_modes[] =
[MPOL_PREFERRED] = "prefer",
[MPOL_BIND] = "bind",
[MPOL_INTERLEAVE] = "interleave",
[MPOL_LOCAL] = "local"
[MPOL_LOCAL] = "local",
[MPOL_NOOP] = "noop", /* should not actually be used */
};
@ -2460,7 +2461,7 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol, int no_context)
break;
}
}
if (mode >= MPOL_MAX)
if (mode >= MPOL_MAX || mode == MPOL_NOOP)
goto out;
switch (mode) {