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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Evans <je@fb.com>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	yalin.wang2010@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] MADV_FREE support
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:10:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151205111042.GA11598@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446600367-7976-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>

On Wed 2015-11-04 10:25:54, Minchan Kim wrote:
> MADV_FREE is on linux-next so long time. The reason was two, I think.
> 
> 1. MADV_FREE code on reclaim path was really mess.

Could you explain what MADV_FREE does?

Comment in code says 'free the page only when there's memory
pressure'. So I mark my caches MADV_FREE, no memory pressure, I can
keep using it? And if there's memory pressure, what happens? I get
zeros? SIGSEGV?

Thanks,
								Pavel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-05 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-04  1:25 [PATCH v2 00/13] MADV_FREE support Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:25 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE) Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  2:29   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-04 23:40     ` Minchan Kim
     [not found]   ` <1446600367-7976-2-git-send-email-minchan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-04  2:16     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-04 23:39       ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  3:41         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-04  3:41     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-04  5:50       ` Daniel Micay
     [not found]         ` <56399CA5.8090101-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-04  5:53           ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-04  6:04             ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-04 18:23         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-04 22:05           ` Daniel Micay
     [not found]             ` <563A813B.9080903-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-05 18:17               ` Shaohua Li
2015-11-05 20:13                 ` Daniel Micay
     [not found]                   ` <563BB855.6020304-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-05 20:14                     ` Daniel Micay
     [not found]       ` <CALCETrUuNs=26UQtkU88cKPomx_Bik9mbgUUF9q7Nmh1pQJ4qg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-05  0:13         ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  0:42           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-05  0:56             ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  1:29               ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                 ` <CALCETrWWgbPNwCr-=LF8p33H25C_aNS5vy4wd3NUap6SmrsmkA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-05  1:48                   ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-04 20:00     ` Shaohua Li
     [not found]       ` <20151104200006.GA46783-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-04 21:16         ` Daniel Micay
     [not found]           ` <563A7591.7080607-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-04 21:29             ` Daniel Micay
2015-11-05  1:33         ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-05  1:37           ` Minchan Kim
2015-11-04 21:43       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-01 22:30       ` John Stultz
2015-11-04  1:25 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] mm: define MADV_FREE for some arches Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:25 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:25 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] mm: clear PG_dirty to mark page freeable Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] sparc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP Minchan Kim
     [not found] ` <1446600367-7976-1-git-send-email-minchan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-04  1:25   ` [PATCH v2 04/13] mm: free swp_entry in madvise_free Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26   ` [PATCH v2 08/13] x86: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26   ` [PATCH v2 10/13] powerpc: " Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] arm: add pmd_mkclean " Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] arm64: " Minchan Kim
2015-11-04  1:26 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] mm: don't split THP page when syscall is called Minchan Kim
2015-12-05 11:10 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-12-05 15:51   ` [PATCH v2 00/13] MADV_FREE support Daniel Micay

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