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| author | Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> | 2011-10-31 17:07:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-10-31 17:30:46 -0700 |
| commit | bc3e53f682d93df677dbd5006a404722b3adfe18 (patch) | |
| tree | f386c29f13626e2b7d98d5a52525a78a9b59e447 /include | |
| parent | f11c0ca501af89fc07b0d9f17531ba3b68a4ef39 (diff) | |
mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages
Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by
increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked".
The difference between mlocking and pinning is:
A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from
swapping. Page migration may move them around though.
They are kept on a special LRU list.
B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to
directly access physical memory. They may not be on any
LRU list.
I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became
bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some
memory was accounted for twice:
Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband
layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA
memory.
This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and
accounts them seperately.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 6456624aa964..f3175830cc73 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ struct mm_struct { unsigned long hiwater_rss; /* High-watermark of RSS usage */ unsigned long hiwater_vm; /* High-water virtual memory usage */ - unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm; + unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, pinned_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm; unsigned long stack_vm, reserved_vm, def_flags, nr_ptes; unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data; unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack; |