[RFC PATCH 1/3] Add flags for temporary compound pages

Alex Thorlton
2013-12-12T18:01:30Z

This chunk of the patch just adds the necessary page flags to support
what I call a temporary compound page. Temporary compound pages provide
us with the ability to turn a chunk of pages into a proper THP at some
point after pulling them off the free list, but also allow us to fault
in single 4K pages from the chunk.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

---
include/linux/gfp.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 9b4dd49..6ec63dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u
#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u
#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000000u
+#define ___GFP_COMP_TEMP 0x2000000u
/* If the above are modified, __GFP_BITS_SHIFT may need updating */

/*
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NORETRY) /* See above */
#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_MEMALLOC)/* Allow access to emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP) /* Add compound page metadata */
+#define __GFP_COMP_TEMP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP_TEMP) /* Treat as temp compound page */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO) /* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves.
* This takes precedence over the
@@ -121,6 +123,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
+#define GFP_TEMP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP_TEMP | \
+ __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | \
+ __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
--
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