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CMA: migrate mlocked pages
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:20:00 +0000 (10:20 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:01:12 +0000 (14:01 +1000)
commite4b7d8fcc061b27a08afd9ecc9e9ecad9d853231
tree5091b2c6d781e79600c329cfec3618336c2b469d
parent2b94112eb22f74b2becf0b06bee55828df31fdd2
CMA: migrate mlocked pages

Presently CMA cannot migrate mlocked pages so it ends up failing to allocate
contiguous memory space.

This patch makes mlocked pages be migrated out.  Of course, it can affect
realtime processes but in CMA usecase, contiguous memory allocation failing
is far worse than access latency to an mlocked page being variable while
CMA is running.  If someone wants to make the system realtime, he shouldn't
enable CMA because stalls can still happen at random times.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/internal.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmscan.c