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CMA: migrate mlocked pages
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:33:48 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:23:00 +0000 (16:23 +0900)
commitc27cc0f6bedec6d89031fe5f1b2b5181f252bcf7
treefebfaa6c20dab69490308190729f1d898e4df930
parentffc448081a5b2020f49affc0fdbb2cc2cdea2ecc
CMA: migrate mlocked pages

Presently CMA cannot migrate mlocked pages so it ends up failing to allocate
contiguous memory space.

This patch makes mlocked pages be migrated out.  Of course, it can affect
realtime processes but in CMA usecase, contiguous memory allocation failing
is far worse than access latency to an mlocked page being variable while
CMA is running.  If someone wants to make the system realtime, he shouldn't
enable CMA because stalls can still happen at random times.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, per Mel]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/internal.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmscan.c