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Andrea Arcangeli ba76149f47 thp: khugepaged 
Add khugepaged to relocate fragmented pages into hugepages if new
hugepages become available.  (this is indipendent of the defrag logic that
will have to make new hugepages available)

The fundamental reason why khugepaged is unavoidable, is that some memory
can be fragmented and not everything can be relocated.  So when a virtual
machine quits and releases gigabytes of hugepages, we want to use those
freely available hugepages to create huge-pmd in the other virtual
machines that may be running on fragmented memory, to maximize the CPU
efficiency at all times.  The scan is slow, it takes nearly zero cpu time,
except when it copies data (in which case it means we definitely want to
pay for that cpu time) so it seems a good tradeoff.

In addition to the hugepages being released by other process releasing
memory, we have the strong suspicion that the performance impact of
potentially defragmenting hugepages during or before each page fault could
lead to more performance inconsistency than allocating small pages at
first and having them collapsed into large pages later...  if they prove
themselfs to be long lived mappings (khugepaged scan is slow so short
lived mappings have low probability to run into khugepaged if compared to
long lived mappings).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
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debug Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
gcov llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
irq irq: use per_cpu kstat_irqs 2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
power Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
time Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
.gitignore
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Kconfig.freezer
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Kconfig.hz
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Kconfig.locks mutex: Better control mutex adaptive spinning config 2009-12-03 11:50:11 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt
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Makefile kernel: clean up USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2011-01-13 08:03:08 -08:00
acct.c pass a struct path to vfs_statfs 2010-08-09 16:48:42 -04:00
async.c async: use workqueue for worker pool 2010-07-14 11:29:46 +02:00
audit.c audit: error message typo correction 2010-11-03 13:49:58 -04:00
audit.h audit: make functions static 2010-10-30 01:42:19 -04:00
audit_tree.c in untag_chunk() we need to do alloc_chunk() a bit earlier 2010-10-30 02:18:32 -04:00
audit_watch.c audit: make functions static 2010-10-30 01:42:19 -04:00
auditfilter.c Audit: add support to match lsm labels on user audit messages 2010-10-30 01:41:57 -04:00
auditsc.c audit mmap 2010-10-30 08:45:43 -04:00
backtracetest.c
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bounds.c kbuild: move bounds.h to include/generated 2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
capability.c sched: Remove remaining USER_SCHED code 2010-04-02 20:12:00 +02:00
cgroup.c switch cgroup 2011-01-12 20:02:47 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state transitions 2010-10-27 18:03:08 -07:00
compat.c compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
configs.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
cpu.c Merge branches 'x86-alternatives-for-linus', 'x86-fpu-for-linus', 'x86-hwmon-for-linus', 'x86-paravirt-for-linus', 'core-locking-for-linus' and 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-01-06 11:11:50 -08:00
cpuset.c convert cgroup and cpuset 2010-10-29 04:17:06 -04:00
cred.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
delayacct.c
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dma.c
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elfcore.c elf coredump: add extended numbering support 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c sys_personality: remove the bogus checks in sys_personality()->__set_personality() path 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
exit.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-01-11 11:02:13 -08:00
extable.c
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fork.c thp: khugepaged 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
freezer.c Freezer: Fix a race during freezing of TASK_STOPPED tasks 2010-12-24 15:02:40 +01:00
futex.c thp: update futex compound knowledge 2011-01-13 17:32:39 -08:00
futex_compat.c futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list 2010-11-10 13:27:50 +01:00
groups.c kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search 2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
hrtimer.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
hung_task.c lockup detector: Fix grammar by adding a missing "to" in the comments 2010-08-17 09:11:52 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Dynamic pmu types 2010-12-16 11:36:43 +01:00
irq_work.c irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics 2010-12-18 15:54:48 +01:00
itimer.c itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields 2009-11-18 16:32:12 +01:00
jump_label.c jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optional 2010-10-29 12:56:13 -04:00
kallsyms.c Revert "kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking" 2010-11-19 11:54:40 -08:00
kexec.c tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
kfifo.c kfifo: fix scatterlist usage 2010-10-01 10:50:58 -07:00
kmod.c Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
kprobes.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
ksysfs.c sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
kthread.c sched: Constify function scope static struct sched_param usage 2011-01-07 15:55:45 +01:00
latencytop.c fs/proc/base.c, kernel/latencytop.c: convert sprintf_symbol() to %ps 2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
lockdep.c lockdep: Check the depth of subclass 2010-10-18 18:44:26 +02:00
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: No need to disable preemption in debug atomic ops 2010-05-04 05:38:16 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c locking, lockdep: Convert sprintf_symbol to %pS 2010-11-10 10:23:58 +01:00
lockdep_states.h
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module.c module: Move RO/NX module protection to after ftrace module update 2010-12-23 09:56:00 -05:00
mutex-debug.c
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mutex-debug.h locking: Implement new raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:32 +01:00
mutex.c mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax() 2010-11-26 15:05:34 +01:00
mutex.h
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notifier.c sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference() 2010-02-25 10:34:26 +01:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated 2010-10-27 18:03:09 -07:00
nsproxy.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
padata.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2010-08-04 15:23:14 -07:00
panic.c lib/bug.c: add oops end marker to WARN implementation 2010-08-11 08:59:22 -07:00
params.c param: locking for kernel parameters 2010-08-11 23:04:20 +09:30
perf_event.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
pid.c Add RCU check for find_task_by_vpid(). 2010-08-19 17:18:02 -07:00
pid_namespace.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
pm_qos_params.c PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max 2010-11-15 22:45:22 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-cpu-timers: Rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call 2010-11-10 13:07:06 +01:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Annotate lock_timer() 2010-10-21 17:30:06 +02:00
printk.c printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump 2011-01-13 08:03:09 -08:00
profile.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
ptrace.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
range.c kernel/range.c: fix clean_sort_range() for the case of full array 2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
rcupdate.c Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu 2010-10-07 09:43:11 +02:00
rcutiny.c rcu: add tracing for TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 2010-11-29 22:01:55 -08:00
rcutiny_plugin.h rcu: Distinguish between boosting and boosted 2010-11-29 22:01:56 -08:00
rcutorture.c rcu: add priority-inversion testing to rcutorture 2010-10-07 10:41:08 -07:00
rcutree.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
rcutree.h rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout 2010-12-17 12:34:20 -08:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: increase synchronize_sched_expedited() batching 2010-12-17 12:34:08 -08:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu,cleanup: simplify the code when cpu is dying 2010-11-29 22:01:58 -08:00
relay.c Clean up relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by using vzalloc rather than vmalloc and memset 2010-11-05 08:21:34 -07:00
res_counter.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
resource.c resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas 2010-12-17 10:01:09 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h
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rtmutex-tester.c rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL 2010-10-19 11:29:56 +02:00
rtmutex.c rtmutes: Convert rtmutex.lock to raw_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
rtmutex.h
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rtmutex_common.h
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rwsem.c
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sched.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
sched_autogroup.c sched: Mark autogroup_init() __init 2011-01-07 15:54:36 +01:00
sched_autogroup.h sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups 2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
sched_clock.c sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug 2010-11-23 10:29:08 +01:00
sched_cpupri.c sched: No need for bootmem special cases 2010-07-17 12:06:22 +02:00
sched_cpupri.h sched: No need for bootmem special cases 2010-07-17 12:06:22 +02:00
sched_debug.c sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups 2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight 2010-12-19 16:36:30 +01:00
sched_features.h sched: Rewrite tg_shares_up) 2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
sched_idletask.c sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes 2010-04-23 11:02:02 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: Implement on-demand (active) cfs_rq list 2010-11-18 13:27:47 +01:00
sched_stats.h sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments 2010-10-24 13:29:01 +02:00
sched_stoptask.c sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption 2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
seccomp.c
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semaphore.c
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signal.c signals: annotate lock context change on ptrace_stop() 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
smp.c kernel: clean up USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2011-01-13 08:03:08 -08:00
softirq.c kernel: clean up USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2011-01-13 08:03:08 -08:00
spinlock.c locking: Cleanup the name space completely 2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
srcu.c rcu: Make synchronize_srcu_expedited() fast if running readers 2010-11-29 22:02:40 -08:00
stacktrace.c
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stop_machine.c stop_machine: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
sys.c kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths 2011-01-13 08:03:07 -08:00
sys_ni.c powerpc: define a compat_sys_recv cond_syscall 2010-09-23 17:03:55 +10:00
sysctl.c sysctl: remove obsolete comments 2011-01-13 08:03:18 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
sysctl_check.c sysctl: min/max bounds are optional 2010-10-15 14:42:24 -07:00
taskstats.c taskstats: use better ifdef for alignment 2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
test_kprobes.c kprobes: Fix selftest to clear flags field for reusing probes 2010-10-14 08:55:27 +02:00
time.c Kill off a bunch of warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration 2010-11-28 23:08:04 +01:00
timeconst.pl
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timer.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-01-06 10:42:43 -08:00
tracepoint.c jump_label: Use more consistent naming 2010-10-18 19:58:56 +02:00
tsacct.c taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times 2010-10-27 18:03:17 -07:00
uid16.c
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up.c
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user-return-notifier.c core: Clean up user return notifers use of per_cpu 2009-12-02 10:22:59 +01:00
user.c fix freeing user_struct in user cache 2010-12-29 11:31:38 -08:00
user_namespace.c user_ns: improve the user_ns on-the-slab packaging 2011-01-13 08:03:18 -08:00
utsname.c
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utsname_sysctl.c
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wait.c docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbook 2010-10-26 17:32:41 -07:00
watchdog.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
workqueue.c workqueue: allow chained queueing during destruction 2010-12-20 19:32:04 +01:00
workqueue_sched.h workqueue: implement concurrency managed dynamic worker pool 2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00