linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 12:32:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Elladan <elladan@...imo.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class
 citizen

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:

> > Another possibility may be to put the exec pages on the mlock list
> > and scan the list if under extreme duress?
>
> Actually, you don't need to go thru the overhead of mucking with the
> PG_mlocked flag which incurs the rmap walk on unlock, etc.  If one sets
> the the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag, the pages will be shuffled off the the
> unevictable LRU iff we ever try to reclaim them.  And, we do have the
> function to scan the unevictable lru to "rescue" pages in a given
> mapping should we want to bring them back under extreme load.  We'd need
> to remove the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag, first.  This is how
> SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK works.

We need some way to control this. If there would be a way to simply switch
off eviction of exec pages (via /proc/sys/vm/never_reclaim_exec_pages or
so) I'd use it.


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