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| author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2013-02-22 16:36:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-23 17:50:23 -0800 |
| commit | 8fdb3dbf02335d96bf170321381522709ba63a0c (patch) | |
| tree | 5c81a212ef5960298ec4d284640c38f707f5dad6 /mm | |
| parent | 49cd0a5c290f99deca3463d16c3c1c7240107889 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8fdb3dbf02335d96bf170321381522709ba63a0c.tar.gz | |
ksm: add some comments
Added slightly more detail to the Documentation of merge_across_nodes, a few comments in areas indicated by review, and renamed get_ksm_page()'s argument from "locked" to "lock_it". No functional change. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 5ea0f64b8714..c067e8dbcc79 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ * take 10 attempts to find a page in the unstable tree, once it is found, * it is secured in the stable tree. (When we scan a new page, we first * compare it against the stable tree, and then against the unstable tree.) + * + * If the merge_across_nodes tunable is unset, then KSM maintains multiple + * stable trees and multiple unstable trees: one of each for each NUMA node. */ /** @@ -526,7 +529,7 @@ static void remove_node_from_stable_tree(struct stable_node *stable_node) * a page to put something that might look like our key in page->mapping. * is on its way to being freed; but it is an anomaly to bear in mind. */ -static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct stable_node *stable_node, bool locked) +static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct stable_node *stable_node, bool lock_it) { struct page *page; void *expected_mapping; @@ -575,7 +578,7 @@ again: goto stale; } - if (locked) { + if (lock_it) { lock_page(page); if (ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping) { unlock_page(page); @@ -705,10 +708,17 @@ static int remove_stable_node(struct stable_node *stable_node) return 0; } - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page))) + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page))) { + /* + * This should not happen: but if it does, just refuse to let + * merge_across_nodes be switched - there is no need to panic. + */ err = -EBUSY; - else { + } else { /* + * The stable node did not yet appear stale to get_ksm_page(), + * since that allows for an unmapped ksm page to be recognized + * right up until it is freed; but the node is safe to remove. * This page might be in a pagevec waiting to be freed, * or it might be PageSwapCache (perhaps under writeback), * or it might have been removed from swapcache a moment ago. |