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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:43:37 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>, Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 28/41] mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use
 by compaction

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:31:27AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> 
> commit a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 upstream.

We need also to pick recent fix dc32f63453f56d07a1073a697dcd843dd3098c09
after applying this one.

> 
> Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that
> 	reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled.
> 	These stalls were particularly noticable when copying data
> 	to a USB stick but the experiences for users varied a lot.
> 
> This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
> mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage.  Async compaction
> maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
> For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
> used.
> 
> This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
> particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
> large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
> ->writepages.
> 
> [aarcange@...hat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>
> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c      |    5 +--
>  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c    |    2 -
>  fs/nfs/internal.h       |    2 -
>  fs/nfs/write.c          |    4 +-
>  include/linux/fs.h      |    6 ++-
>  include/linux/migrate.h |   23 +++++++++++---
>  mm/compaction.c         |    2 -
>  mm/memory-failure.c     |    2 -
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c     |    2 -
>  mm/mempolicy.c          |    2 -
>  mm/migrate.c            |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  11 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> @@ -801,7 +801,8 @@ static int btree_submit_bio_hook(struct
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>  static int btree_migratepage(struct address_space *mapping,
> -			struct page *newpage, struct page *page, bool sync)
> +			struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> +			enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * we can't safely write a btree page from here,
> @@ -816,7 +817,7 @@ static int btree_migratepage(struct addr
>  	if (page_has_private(page) &&
>  	    !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL))
>  		return -EAGAIN;
> -	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
> +	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty(stru
>  
>  static int hugetlbfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
>  				struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> -				bool sync)
> +				enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int rc;
>  
> --- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
> @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ void nfs_commit_release_pages(struct nfs
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>  extern int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
> -		struct page *, struct page *, bool);
> +		struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
>  #else
>  #define nfs_migrate_page NULL
>  #endif
> --- a/fs/nfs/write.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
> @@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ out_error:
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>  int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
> -		struct page *page, bool sync)
> +		struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * If PagePrivate is set, then the page is currently associated with
> @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_spac
>  
>  	nfs_fscache_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
> +	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ enum positive_aop_returns {
>  struct page;
>  struct address_space;
>  struct writeback_control;
> +enum migrate_mode;
>  
>  struct iov_iter {
>  	const struct iovec *iov;
> @@ -612,7 +613,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
>  	 * is false, it must not block.
>  	 */
>  	int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *,
> -			struct page *, struct page *, bool);
> +			struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
>  	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
>  	int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *,
>  					unsigned long);
> @@ -2481,7 +2482,8 @@ extern int generic_check_addressable(uns
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>  extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
> -				struct page *, struct page *, bool);
> +				struct page *, struct page *,
> +				enum migrate_mode);
>  #else
>  #define buffer_migrate_page NULL
>  #endif
> --- a/include/linux/migrate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
> @@ -6,18 +6,31 @@
>  
>  typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **);
>  
> +/*
> + * MIGRATE_ASYNC means never block
> + * MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT in the current implementation means to allow blocking
> + *	on most operations but not ->writepage as the potential stall time
> + *	is too significant
> + * MIGRATE_SYNC will block when migrating pages
> + */
> +enum migrate_mode {
> +	MIGRATE_ASYNC,
> +	MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
> +	MIGRATE_SYNC,
> +};
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>  #define PAGE_MIGRATION 1
>  
>  extern void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l);
>  extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *,
> -			struct page *, struct page *, bool);
> +			struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
>  extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
>  			unsigned long private, bool offlining,
> -			bool sync);
> +			enum migrate_mode mode);
>  extern int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
>  			unsigned long private, bool offlining,
> -			bool sync);
> +			enum migrate_mode mode);
>  
>  extern int fail_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
>  			struct page *, struct page *);
> @@ -36,10 +49,10 @@ extern int migrate_huge_page_move_mappin
>  static inline void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) {}
>  static inline int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
>  		unsigned long private, bool offlining,
> -		bool sync) { return -ENOSYS; }
> +		enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; }
>  static inline int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x,
>  		unsigned long private, bool offlining,
> -		bool sync) { return -ENOSYS; }
> +		enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; }
>  
>  static inline int migrate_prep(void) { return -ENOSYS; }
>  static inline int migrate_prep_local(void) { return -ENOSYS; }
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zon
>  		nr_migrate = cc->nr_migratepages;
>  		err = migrate_pages(&cc->migratepages, compaction_alloc,
>  				(unsigned long)cc, false,
> -				cc->sync);
> +				cc->sync ? MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT : MIGRATE_ASYNC);
>  		update_nr_listpages(cc);
>  		nr_remaining = cc->nr_migratepages;
>  
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page,
>  					    page_is_file_cache(page));
>  		list_add(&page->lru, &pagelist);
>  		ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> -								0, true);
> +							0, MIGRATE_SYNC);
>  		if (ret) {
>  			putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
>  			pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n",
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn
>  		}
>  		/* this function returns # of failed pages */
>  		ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0,
> -								true, true);
> +							true, MIGRATE_SYNC);
>  		if (ret)
>  			putback_lru_pages(&source);
>  	}
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ static int migrate_to_node(struct mm_str
>  
>  	if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
>  		err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest,
> -								false, true);
> +							false, MIGRATE_SYNC);
>  		if (err)
>  			putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
>  	}
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -222,12 +222,13 @@ out:
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
>  /* Returns true if all buffers are successfully locked */
> -static bool buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(struct buffer_head *head, bool sync)
> +static bool buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(struct buffer_head *head,
> +							enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	struct buffer_head *bh = head;
>  
>  	/* Simple case, sync compaction */
> -	if (sync) {
> +	if (mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC) {
>  		do {
>  			get_bh(bh);
>  			lock_buffer(bh);
> @@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ static bool buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(
>  }
>  #else
>  static inline bool buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(struct buffer_head *head,
> -								bool sync)
> +							enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	return true;
>  }
> @@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ static inline bool buffer_migrate_lock_b
>   */
>  static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
>  		struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> -		struct buffer_head *head, bool sync)
> +		struct buffer_head *head, enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int expected_count;
>  	void **pslot;
> @@ -315,7 +316,8 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(str
>  	 * the mapping back due to an elevated page count, we would have to
>  	 * block waiting on other references to be dropped.
>  	 */
> -	if (!sync && head && !buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(head, sync)) {
> +	if (mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC && head &&
> +			!buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(head, mode)) {
>  		page_unfreeze_refs(page, expected_count);
>  		spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
>  		return -EAGAIN;
> @@ -478,13 +480,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fail_migrate_page);
>   * Pages are locked upon entry and exit.
>   */
>  int migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> -		struct page *newpage, struct page *page, bool sync)
> +		struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> +		enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int rc;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));	/* Writeback must be complete */
>  
> -	rc = migrate_page_move_mapping(mapping, newpage, page, NULL, sync);
> +	rc = migrate_page_move_mapping(mapping, newpage, page, NULL, mode);
>  
>  	if (rc)
>  		return rc;
> @@ -501,17 +504,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(migrate_page);
>   * exist.
>   */
>  int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> -		struct page *newpage, struct page *page, bool sync)
> +		struct page *newpage, struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
>  	int rc;
>  
>  	if (!page_has_buffers(page))
> -		return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
> +		return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  
>  	head = page_buffers(page);
>  
> -	rc = migrate_page_move_mapping(mapping, newpage, page, head, sync);
> +	rc = migrate_page_move_mapping(mapping, newpage, page, head, mode);
>  
>  	if (rc)
>  		return rc;
> @@ -521,8 +524,8 @@ int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_s
>  	 * with an IRQ-safe spinlock held. In the sync case, the buffers
>  	 * need to be locked now
>  	 */
> -	if (sync)
> -		BUG_ON(!buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(head, sync));
> +	if (mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC)
> +		BUG_ON(!buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(head, mode));
>  
>  	ClearPagePrivate(page);
>  	set_page_private(newpage, page_private(page));
> @@ -599,10 +602,11 @@ static int writeout(struct address_space
>   * Default handling if a filesystem does not provide a migration function.
>   */
>  static int fallback_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> -	struct page *newpage, struct page *page, bool sync)
> +	struct page *newpage, struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	if (PageDirty(page)) {
> -		if (!sync)
> +		/* Only writeback pages in full synchronous migration */
> +		if (mode != MIGRATE_SYNC)
>  			return -EBUSY;
>  		return writeout(mapping, page);
>  	}
> @@ -615,7 +619,7 @@ static int fallback_migrate_page(struct
>  	    !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL))
>  		return -EAGAIN;
>  
> -	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
> +	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -630,7 +634,7 @@ static int fallback_migrate_page(struct
>   *  == 0 - success
>   */
>  static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
> -					int remap_swapcache, bool sync)
> +				int remap_swapcache, enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	struct address_space *mapping;
>  	int rc;
> @@ -651,7 +655,7 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page
>  
>  	mapping = page_mapping(page);
>  	if (!mapping)
> -		rc = migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
> +		rc = migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  	else if (mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
>  		/*
>  		 * Most pages have a mapping and most filesystems provide a
> @@ -660,9 +664,9 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page
>  		 * is the most common path for page migration.
>  		 */
>  		rc = mapping->a_ops->migratepage(mapping,
> -						newpage, page, sync);
> +						newpage, page, mode);
>  	else
> -		rc = fallback_migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
> +		rc = fallback_migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  
>  	if (rc) {
>  		newpage->mapping = NULL;
> @@ -677,7 +681,7 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page
>  }
>  
>  static int __unmap_and_move(struct page *page, struct page *newpage,
> -				int force, bool offlining, bool sync)
> +			int force, bool offlining, enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int rc = -EAGAIN;
>  	int remap_swapcache = 1;
> @@ -686,7 +690,7 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page
>  	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
>  
>  	if (!trylock_page(page)) {
> -		if (!force || !sync)
> +		if (!force || mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)
>  			goto out;
>  
>  		/*
> @@ -732,10 +736,12 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page
>  
>  	if (PageWriteback(page)) {
>  		/*
> -		 * For !sync, there is no point retrying as the retry loop
> -		 * is expected to be too short for PageWriteback to be cleared
> +		 * Only in the case of a full syncronous migration is it
> +		 * necessary to wait for PageWriteback. In the async case,
> +		 * the retry loop is too short and in the sync-light case,
> +		 * the overhead of stalling is too much
>  		 */
> -		if (!sync) {
> +		if (mode != MIGRATE_SYNC) {
>  			rc = -EBUSY;
>  			goto uncharge;
>  		}
> @@ -806,7 +812,7 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page
>  
>  skip_unmap:
>  	if (!page_mapped(page))
> -		rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page, remap_swapcache, sync);
> +		rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page, remap_swapcache, mode);
>  
>  	if (rc && remap_swapcache)
>  		remove_migration_ptes(page, page);
> @@ -829,7 +835,8 @@ out:
>   * to the newly allocated page in newpage.
>   */
>  static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
> -			struct page *page, int force, bool offlining, bool sync)
> +			struct page *page, int force, bool offlining,
> +			enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int rc = 0;
>  	int *result = NULL;
> @@ -847,7 +854,7 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get
>  		if (unlikely(split_huge_page(page)))
>  			goto out;
>  
> -	rc = __unmap_and_move(page, newpage, force, offlining, sync);
> +	rc = __unmap_and_move(page, newpage, force, offlining, mode);
>  out:
>  	if (rc != -EAGAIN) {
>  		/*
> @@ -895,7 +902,8 @@ out:
>   */
>  static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
>  				unsigned long private, struct page *hpage,
> -				int force, bool offlining, bool sync)
> +				int force, bool offlining,
> +				enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int rc = 0;
>  	int *result = NULL;
> @@ -908,7 +916,7 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_
>  	rc = -EAGAIN;
>  
>  	if (!trylock_page(hpage)) {
> -		if (!force || !sync)
> +		if (!force || mode != MIGRATE_SYNC)
>  			goto out;
>  		lock_page(hpage);
>  	}
> @@ -919,7 +927,7 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_
>  	try_to_unmap(hpage, TTU_MIGRATION|TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK|TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS);
>  
>  	if (!page_mapped(hpage))
> -		rc = move_to_new_page(new_hpage, hpage, 1, sync);
> +		rc = move_to_new_page(new_hpage, hpage, 1, mode);
>  
>  	if (rc)
>  		remove_migration_ptes(hpage, hpage);
> @@ -962,7 +970,7 @@ out:
>   */
>  int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from,
>  		new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private, bool offlining,
> -		bool sync)
> +		enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int retry = 1;
>  	int nr_failed = 0;
> @@ -983,7 +991,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from
>  
>  			rc = unmap_and_move(get_new_page, private,
>  						page, pass > 2, offlining,
> -						sync);
> +						mode);
>  
>  			switch(rc) {
>  			case -ENOMEM:
> @@ -1013,7 +1021,7 @@ out:
>  
>  int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *from,
>  		new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private, bool offlining,
> -		bool sync)
> +		enum migrate_mode mode)
>  {
>  	int retry = 1;
>  	int nr_failed = 0;
> @@ -1030,7 +1038,7 @@ int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head
>  
>  			rc = unmap_and_move_huge_page(get_new_page,
>  					private, page, pass > 2, offlining,
> -					sync);
> +					mode);
>  
>  			switch(rc) {
>  			case -ENOMEM:
> @@ -1159,7 +1167,7 @@ set_status:
>  	err = 0;
>  	if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
>  		err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page_node,
> -				(unsigned long)pm, 0, true);
> +				(unsigned long)pm, 0, MIGRATE_SYNC);
>  		if (err)
>  			putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
>  	}
> 
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