vmscan: update isolated page counters outside of main path in shrink_inactive_list()
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:33 +0000 (17:19 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:45:00 +0000 (20:45 -0700)
When shrink_inactive_list() isolates pages, it updates a number of
counters using temporary variables to gather them.  These consume stack
and it's in the main path that calls ->writepage().  This patch moves the
accounting updates outside of the main path to reduce stack usage.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c

index 512f463..1c3d960 100644 (file)
@@ -1076,7 +1076,8 @@ static unsigned long clear_active_flags(struct list_head *page_list,
                        ClearPageActive(page);
                        nr_active++;
                }
-               count[lru]++;
+               if (count)
+                       count[lru]++;
        }
 
        return nr_active;
@@ -1156,12 +1157,13 @@ static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
  * TODO: Try merging with migrations version of putback_lru_pages
  */
 static noinline_for_stack void
-putback_lru_pages(struct zone *zone, struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat,
+putback_lru_pages(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
                                unsigned long nr_anon, unsigned long nr_file,
                                struct list_head *page_list)
 {
        struct page *page;
        struct pagevec pvec;
+       struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
 
        pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
 
@@ -1200,6 +1202,37 @@ putback_lru_pages(struct zone *zone, struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat,
        pagevec_release(&pvec);
 }
 
+static noinline_for_stack void update_isolated_counts(struct zone *zone,
+                                       struct scan_control *sc,
+                                       unsigned long *nr_anon,
+                                       unsigned long *nr_file,
+                                       struct list_head *isolated_list)
+{
+       unsigned long nr_active;
+       unsigned int count[NR_LRU_LISTS] = { 0, };
+       struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
+
+       nr_active = clear_active_flags(isolated_list, count);
+       __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_active);
+
+       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE,
+                             -count[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE]);
+       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE,
+                             -count[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]);
+       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON,
+                             -count[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON]);
+       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON,
+                             -count[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON]);
+
+       *nr_anon = count[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON] + count[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON];
+       *nr_file = count[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + count[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE];
+       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON, *nr_anon);
+       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, *nr_file);
+
+       reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] += *nr_anon;
+       reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] += *nr_file;
+}
+
 /*
  * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_zone().  It returns the number
  * of reclaimed pages
@@ -1211,10 +1244,8 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
        LIST_HEAD(page_list);
        unsigned long nr_scanned;
        unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
-       struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
        unsigned long nr_taken;
        unsigned long nr_active;
-       unsigned int count[NR_LRU_LISTS] = { 0, };
        unsigned long nr_anon;
        unsigned long nr_file;
 
@@ -1261,25 +1292,7 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
                return 0;
        }
 
-       nr_active = clear_active_flags(&page_list, count);
-       __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_active);
-
-       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE,
-                                       -count[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE]);
-       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE,
-                                       -count[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]);
-       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON,
-                                       -count[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON]);
-       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON,
-                                       -count[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON]);
-
-       nr_anon = count[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON] + count[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON];
-       nr_file = count[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + count[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE];
-       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON, nr_anon);
-       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, nr_file);
-
-       reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] += nr_anon;
-       reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] += nr_file;
+       update_isolated_counts(zone, sc, &nr_anon, &nr_file, &page_list);
 
        spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 
@@ -1299,7 +1312,7 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
                 * The attempt at page out may have made some
                 * of the pages active, mark them inactive again.
                 */
-               nr_active = clear_active_flags(&page_list, count);
+               nr_active = clear_active_flags(&page_list, NULL);
                count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_active);
 
                nr_reclaimed += shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc, PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC);
@@ -1310,7 +1323,7 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
                __count_vm_events(KSWAPD_STEAL, nr_reclaimed);
        __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL, zone, nr_reclaimed);
 
-       putback_lru_pages(zone, reclaim_stat, nr_anon, nr_file, &page_list);
+       putback_lru_pages(zone, sc, nr_anon, nr_file, &page_list);
        return nr_reclaimed;
 }