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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ratelimit.c
/*
* ratelimit.c - Do something with rate limit.
*
* Isolated from kernel/printk.c by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
*
* This file is released under the GPLv2.
*
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
/*
* __ratelimit - rate limiting
* @ratelimit_jiffies: minimum time in jiffies between two callbacks
* @ratelimit_burst: number of callbacks we do before ratelimiting
*
* This enforces a rate limit: not more than @ratelimit_burst callbacks
* in every ratelimit_jiffies
*/
int __ratelimit(int ratelimit_jiffies, int ratelimit_burst)
{
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ratelimit_lock);
static unsigned toks = 10 * 5 * HZ;
static unsigned long last_msg;
static int missed;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long now = jiffies;
spin_lock_irqsave(&ratelimit_lock, flags);
toks += now - last_msg;
last_msg = now;
if (toks > (ratelimit_burst * ratelimit_jiffies))
toks = ratelimit_burst * ratelimit_jiffies;
if (toks >= ratelimit_jiffies) {
int lost = missed;
missed = 0;
toks -= ratelimit_jiffies;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ratelimit_lock, flags);
if (lost)
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %d messages suppressed\n",
__func__, lost);
return 1;
}
missed++;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ratelimit_lock, flags);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ratelimit);
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