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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 19:55:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-26 19:55:54 -0700
commit0e06f5c0deeef0332a5da2ecb8f1fcf3e024d958 (patch)
treee0f0af4aadf10c713c5cf1b65356844b3c9b3215 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
parentf7816ad0f878dacd5f0120476f9b836ccf8699ea (diff)
parent8f19b0c058d93a678a99dd6fec03af2e769943f2 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc bits - ocfs2 - most(?) of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (125 commits) thp: fix comments of __pmd_trans_huge_lock() cgroup: remove unnecessary 0 check from css_from_id() cgroup: fix idr leak for the first cgroup root mm: memcontrol: fix documentation for compound parameter mm: memcontrol: remove BUG_ON in uncharge_list mm: fix build warnings in <linux/compaction.h> mm, thp: convert from optimistic swapin collapsing to conservative mm, thp: fix comment inconsistency for swapin readahead functions thp: update Documentation/{vm/transhuge,filesystems/proc}.txt shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages shmem: make shmem_inode_info::lock irq-safe khugepaged: move up_read(mmap_sem) out of khugepaged_alloc_page() thp: extract khugepaged from mm/huge_memory.c shmem, thp: respect MADV_{NO,}HUGEPAGE for file mappings shmem: add huge pages support shmem: get_unmapped_area align huge page shmem: prepare huge= mount option and sysfs knob mm, rmap: account shmem thp pages ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index c61a223ef3ff..900360cbcdae 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -592,9 +592,14 @@ struct address_space_operations {
int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
ssize_t (*direct_IO)(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter);
+ /* isolate a page for migration */
+ bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *, isolate_mode_t);
/* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *);
+ /* put migration-failed page back to right list */
+ void (*putback_page) (struct page *);
int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+
int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, unsigned long,
unsigned long);
void (*is_dirty_writeback) (struct page *, bool *, bool *);
@@ -747,6 +752,10 @@ struct address_space_operations {
and transfer data directly between the storage and the
application's address space.
+ isolate_page: Called by the VM when isolating a movable non-lru page.
+ If page is successfully isolated, VM marks the page as PG_isolated
+ via __SetPageIsolated.
+
migrate_page: This is used to compact the physical memory usage.
If the VM wants to relocate a page (maybe off a memory card
that is signalling imminent failure) it will pass a new page
@@ -754,6 +763,8 @@ struct address_space_operations {
transfer any private data across and update any references
that it has to the page.
+ putback_page: Called by the VM when isolated page's migration fails.
+
launder_page: Called before freeing a page - it writes back the dirty page. To
prevent redirtying the page, it is kept locked during the whole
operation.