linux_old1/mm
David Howells 3a6be87fd1 nommu: clamp zone_batchsize() to 0 under NOMMU conditions
Clamp zone_batchsize() to 0 under NOMMU conditions to stop
free_hot_cold_page() from queueing and batching frees.

The problem is that under NOMMU conditions it is really important to be
able to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory, but when munmap() or
exit_mmap() releases big stretches of memory, return of these to the buddy
allocator can be deferred, and when it does finally happen, it can be in
small chunks.

Whilst the fragmentation this incurs isn't so much of a problem under MMU
conditions as userspace VM is glued together from individual pages with
the aid of the MMU, it is a real problem if there isn't an MMU.

By clamping the page freeing queue size to 0, pages are returned to the
allocator immediately, and the buddy detector is more likely to be able to
glue them together into large chunks immediately, and fragmentation is
less likely to occur.

By disabling batching of frees, and by turning off the trimming of excess
space during boot, Coldfire can manage to boot.

Reported-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
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Kconfig mm: point the UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option at the documentation 2009-04-13 15:04:31 -07:00
Kconfig.debug generic debug pagealloc: build fix 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
Makefile generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
allocpercpu.c percpu: __percpu_depopulate_mask can take a const mask 2009-04-06 13:44:15 -07:00
backing-dev.c block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based 2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem, x86: further fixes for arch-specific bootmem wrapping 2009-03-01 16:06:56 +09:00
bounce.c bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list 2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special cases 2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
failslab.c kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c 2009-04-03 12:23:01 +02:00
filemap.c Export filemap_write_and_wait_range 2009-04-16 07:47:49 -07:00
filemap_xip.c mm: do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation 2009-04-02 19:04:49 -07:00
fremap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
highmem.c mm: introduce debug_kmap_atomic 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: chg cannot become less than 0 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
internal.h nommu: there is no mlock() for NOMMU, so don't provide the bits 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regions 2009-05-05 14:37:58 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix mem_cgroup_shrink_usage() 2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
memory.c mm: close page_mkwrite races 2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: remove GFP_HIGHUSER_PAGECACHE 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
mempolicy.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28 2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
mincore.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-02-17 14:27:39 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelists 2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
mprotect.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
mremap.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: prevent livelock when oom_kill_allocating_task is set 2009-05-06 16:36:09 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage" 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
page_alloc.c nommu: clamp zone_batchsize() to 0 under NOMMU conditions 2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: remove redundant message at swapon 2009-04-02 19:04:56 -07:00
page_io.c block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC 2009-02-18 10:32:00 +01:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads 2009-04-07 08:31:03 -07:00
percpu.c percpu: generalize embedding first chunk setup helper 2009-03-10 16:27:48 +09:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node. 2009-03-13 14:49:46 +10:30
readahead.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
rmap.c mm: fix mlocked page counter mismatch 2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
shmem.c memcg: fix mem_cgroup_shrink_usage() 2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
slab.c Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-06 13:30:00 -07:00
slob.c kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects 2009-04-03 12:23:10 +02:00
slub.c kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects 2009-04-03 12:23:10 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c vmemmap: warn about page_structs with remote distance 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
sparse.c mm: mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(): remove redundant test 2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
swap.c mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
swap_state.c memcg: mem+swap controller core 2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
swapfile.c PM/hibernate: fix "swap breaks after hibernation failures" 2009-02-21 14:17:17 -08:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
truncate.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
util.c mm: document get_user_pages_fast() 2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00
vmalloc.c alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak 2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
vmscan.c vmscan: avoid multiplication overflow in shrink_zone() 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: align vmstat_work's timer 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00