tree 505f48a5a319e44b31bd810ed8b673f2bdb1cb88
parent 4595ef88d136134a9470c955575640f5c96344ed
author Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> 1469571992 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1469575159 -0700

khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages

This patch extends khugepaged to support collapse of tmpfs/shmem pages.
We share fair amount of infrastructure with anon-THP collapse.

Few design points:

  - First we are looking for VMA which can be suitable for mapping huge
    page;

  - If the VMA maps shmem file, the rest scan/collapse operations
    operates on page cache, not on page tables as in anon VMA case.

  - khugepaged_scan_shmem() finds a range which is suitable for huge
    page. The scan is lockless and shouldn't disturb system too much.

  - once the candidate for collapse is found, collapse_shmem() attempts
    to create a huge page:

      + scan over radix tree, making the range point to new huge page;

      + new huge page is not-uptodate, locked and freezed (refcount
        is 0), so nobody can touch them until we say so.

      + we swap in pages during the scan. khugepaged_scan_shmem()
        filters out ranges with more than khugepaged_max_ptes_swap
	swapped out pages. It's HPAGE_PMD_NR/8 by default.

      + old pages are isolated, unmapped and put to local list in case
        to be restored back if collapse failed.

  - if collapse succeed, we retract pte page tables from VMAs where huge
    pages mapping is possible. The huge page will be mapped as PMD on
    next minor fault into the range.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-35-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>