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Commit 64e3d12f authored by Kuo-Hsin Yang's avatar Kuo-Hsin Yang Committed by Chris Wilson
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mm, drm/i915: mark pinned shmemfs pages as unevictable

The i915 driver uses shmemfs to allocate backing storage for gem
objects. These shmemfs pages can be pinned (increased ref count) by
shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(). When a lot of pages are pinned, vmscan
wastes a lot of time scanning these pinned pages. In some extreme case,
all pages in the inactive anon lru are pinned, and only the inactive
anon lru is scanned due to inactive_ratio, the system cannot swap and
invokes the oom-killer. Mark these pinned pages as unevictable to speed
up vmscan.

Export pagevec API check_move_unevictable_pages().

This patch was inspired by Chris Wilson's change [1].

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9768741/



Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKuo-Hsin Yang <vovoy@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> # mm part
Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181106132324.17390-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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