mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due to individual unco…

…mpactable zones

When a zone meets its high watermark and is compactable in case of
higher order allocations, it contributes to the percentage of the node's
memory that is considered balanced.

This requirement, that a node be only partially balanced, came about
when kswapd was desparately trying to balance tiny zones when all bigger
zones in the node had plenty of free memory.  Arguably, the same should
apply to compaction: if a significant part of the node is balanced
enough to run compaction, do not get hung up on that tiny zone that
might never get in shape.

When the compaction logic in kswapd is reached, we know that at least
25% of the node's memory is balanced properly for compaction (see
zone_balanced and pgdat_balanced).  Remove the individual zone checks
that restart the kswapd cycle.

Otherwise, we may observe more endless looping in kswapd where the
compaction code loops back to reclaim because of a single zone and
reclaim does nothing because the node is considered balanced overall.

See for example

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866988

Change-Id: I9c8f180466fea814c3038fa019f317799ddc0bcb
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info>
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Tested-by: John Ellson <john.ellson@comcast.net>
Tested-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: c702418
Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>
mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing

Kswapd does not in all places have the same criteria for a balanced
zone.  Zones are only being reclaimed when their high watermark is
breached, but compaction checks loop over the zonelist again when the
zone does not meet the low watermark plus two times the size of the
allocation.  This gets kswapd stuck in an endless loop over a small
zone, like the DMA zone, where the high watermark is smaller than the
compaction requirement.

Add a function, zone_balanced(), that checks the watermark, and, for
higher order allocations, if compaction has enough free memory.  Then
use it uniformly to check for balanced zones.

This makes sure that when the compaction watermark is not met, at least
reclaim happens and progress is made - or the zone is declared
unreclaimable at some point and skipped entirely.

Change-Id: I17a375f356189bde63406e2127153287208157a8
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Reported-by: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 60cefed485a02bd99b6299dad70666fe49245da7
Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>
fs: lower vfs_cache_pressure
staging: zram/zcache: swtich Kconfig dependency from X86 to ZSMALLOC

This patch switches zcache and zram dependency to ZSMALLOC
rather than X86.  There is no net change since ZSMALLOC
depends on X86, however, this prevent further changes to
these files as zsmalloc dependencies change.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zsmalloc: remove x86 dependency

This patch replaces the page table assisted object mapping
method, which has x86 dependencies, with a arch-independent
method that does a simple copy into a temporary per-cpu
buffer.

While a copy seems like it would be worse than mapping the pages,
tests demonstrate the copying is always faster and, in the case of
running inside a KVM guest, roughly 4x faster.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc: use unsigned long instead of void *

We should use unsigned long as handle instead of void * to avoid any
confusion. Without this, users may just treat zs_malloc return value as
a pointer and try to deference it.

This patch passed compile test(zram, zcache and ramster) and zram is
tested on qemu.

changelog
  * from v2
	- remove hval pointed out by Nitin
	- based on next-20120607
  * from v1
	- change zcache's zv_create return value
	- baesd on next-20120604

Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zram: fix random data read

fd1a30de makes a bug that it uses (struct page *) as zsmalloc's handle
although it's a uncompressed page so that it can access random page,
return random data or even crashed by get_first_page in zs_map_object.

Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zram: remove special handle of uncompressed page

xvmalloc can't handle PAGE_SIZE page so that zram have to
handle it specially but zsmalloc can do it so let's remove
unnecessary special handling code.

Quote from Nitin
"I think page vs handle distinction was added since xvmalloc could not
handle full page allocation. Now that zsmalloc allows full page
allocation, we can just use it for both cases. This would also allow
removing the ZRAM_UNCOMPRESSED flag. The only downside will be slightly
slower code path for full page allocation but this event is anyways
supposed to be rare, so should be fine."

1. This patch reduces code very much.

 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c   |  104 +++++--------------------------------
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h   |   17 +-----
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c |    6 +--
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)

2. change pages_expand with bad_compress so it can count
   bad compression(above 75%) ratio.

3. remove zobj_header which is for back-reference for defragmentation
   because firstly, it's not used at the moment and zsmalloc can't handle
   bigger size than PAGE_SIZE so zram can't do it any more without redesign.

Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zram: conventions pr_warning -> pr_warn()

Porting zram to use the pr_warn() function instead of the deprecated
pr_warning().

Signed-off-by: Sam Hansen <solid.se7en@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zram: conventions, __aligned() attribute

Using the __aligned() attribute in favor of __attribute__((aligned(size)))

Signed-off-by: Sam Hansen <solid.se7en@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zsmalloc: add single-page object fastpath in unmap

Improve zs_unmap_object() performance by adding a fast path for
objects that don't span pages.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
staging: zcache: cleanup zcache_do_preload and zcache_put_page

Cleanup the code for zcache_do_preload and zcache_put_page

Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 staging: zcache: cleanup the code between tmem_obj_init and tmem_obj_… …

…find

tmem_obj_find and insertion tmem-obj have the some logic, we can integrate
the code

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>