Revision 251b97f552b1ad414cc5a9ccc8e4e94503edd5fc authored by Peter Zijlstra on 04 July 2008, 16:59:24 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 04 July 2008, 17:40:04 UTC
Dirty page accounting accurately measures the amound of dirty pages in writable shared mappings by mapping the pages RO (as indicated by vma_wants_writenotify). We then trap on first write and call set_page_dirty() on the page, after which we map the page RW and continue execution. When we launder dirty pages, we call clear_page_dirty_for_io() which clears both the dirty flag, and maps the page RO again before we start writeout so that the story can repeat itself. vma_wants_writenotify() excludes VM_PFNMAP on the basis that we cannot do the regular dirty page stuff on raw PFNs and the memory isn't going anywhere anyway. The recently introduced VM_MIXEDMAP mixes both !pfn_valid() and pfn_valid() pages in a single mapping. We can't do dirty page accounting on !pfn_valid() pages as stated above, and mapping them RO causes them to be COW'ed on write, which breaks VM_SHARED semantics. Excluding VM_MIXEDMAP in vma_wants_writenotify() would mean we don't do the regular dirty page accounting for the pfn_valid() pages, which would bring back all the head-aches from inaccurate dirty page accounting. So instead, we let the !pfn_valid() pages get mapped RO, but fix them up unconditionally in the fault path. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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prio_heap.c
/*
* Simple insertion-only static-sized priority heap containing
* pointers, based on CLR, chapter 7
*/
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/prio_heap.h>
int heap_init(struct ptr_heap *heap, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
int (*gt)(void *, void *))
{
heap->ptrs = kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
if (!heap->ptrs)
return -ENOMEM;
heap->size = 0;
heap->max = size / sizeof(void *);
heap->gt = gt;
return 0;
}
void heap_free(struct ptr_heap *heap)
{
kfree(heap->ptrs);
}
void *heap_insert(struct ptr_heap *heap, void *p)
{
void *res;
void **ptrs = heap->ptrs;
int pos;
if (heap->size < heap->max) {
/* Heap insertion */
int pos = heap->size++;
while (pos > 0 && heap->gt(p, ptrs[(pos-1)/2])) {
ptrs[pos] = ptrs[(pos-1)/2];
pos = (pos-1)/2;
}
ptrs[pos] = p;
return NULL;
}
/* The heap is full, so something will have to be dropped */
/* If the new pointer is greater than the current max, drop it */
if (heap->gt(p, ptrs[0]))
return p;
/* Replace the current max and heapify */
res = ptrs[0];
ptrs[0] = p;
pos = 0;
while (1) {
int left = 2 * pos + 1;
int right = 2 * pos + 2;
int largest = pos;
if (left < heap->size && heap->gt(ptrs[left], p))
largest = left;
if (right < heap->size && heap->gt(ptrs[right], ptrs[largest]))
largest = right;
if (largest == pos)
break;
/* Push p down the heap one level and bump one up */
ptrs[pos] = ptrs[largest];
ptrs[largest] = p;
pos = largest;
}
return res;
}
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