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[PATCHv9-rebased 01/32] thp, mlock: update unevictable-lru.txt

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Add description of THP handling into unevictable-lru.txt.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
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 Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
index fa3b527086fa..0026a8d33fc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt
@@ -461,6 +461,27 @@ unevictable LRU is enabled, the work of compaction is mostly handled by
 the page migration code and the same work flow as described in MIGRATING
 MLOCKED PAGES will apply.
 
+MLOCKING TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGES
+-------------------------------
+
+A transparent huge page is represented by a single entry on an LRU list.
+Therefore, we can only make unevictable an entire compound page, not
+individual subpages.
+
+If a user tries to mlock() part of a huge page, we want the rest of the
+page to be reclaimable.
+
+We cannot just split the page on partial mlock() as split_huge_page() can
+fail and new intermittent failure mode for the syscall is undesirable.
+
+We handle this by keeping PTE-mapped huge pages on normal LRU lists: the
+PMD on border of VM_LOCKED VMA will be split into PTE table.
+
+This way the huge page is accessible for vmscan. Under memory pressure the
+page will be split, subpages which belong to VM_LOCKED VMAs will be moved
+to unevictable LRU and the rest can be reclaimed.
+
+See also comment in follow_trans_huge_pmd().
 
 mmap(MAP_LOCKED) SYSTEM CALL HANDLING
 -------------------------------------
-- 
2.8.1

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[PATCHv9 00/32] THP-enabled tmpfs/shmem using compound pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-06 16:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9 11/32] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-06 16:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9 09/32] thp: handle file pages in split_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-06 16:30 +0200
  [PATCHv9 06/32] mm: introduce do_set_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-06 16:30 +0200
  [PATCHv9 13/32] thp: run vma_adjust_trans_huge() outside i_mmap_rwsem "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-06 16:30 +0200
  [PATCHv9 04/32] mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-06 16:30 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 24/32] shmem: add huge pages support "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 25/32] shmem, thp: respect MADV_{NO,}HUGEPAGE for file mappings "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 06/32] mm: introduce do_set_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 16/32] vmscan: split file huge pages before paging them out "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 07/32] thp, vmstats: add counters for huge file pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 23/32] shmem: get_unmapped_area align huge page "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 19/32] filemap: prepare find and delete operations for huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 30/32] thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 01/32] thp, mlock: update unevictable-lru.txt "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 13/32] thp: run vma_adjust_trans_huge() outside i_mmap_rwsem "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 04/32] mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 28/32] shmem: make shmem_inode_info::lock irq-safe "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 32/32] thp: update Documentation/{vm/transhuge,filesystems/proc}.txt "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 27/32] khugepaged: move up_read(mmap_sem) out of khugepaged_alloc_page() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 10/32] thp: handle file COW faults "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 29/32] khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 31/32] shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 02/32] mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_fault "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 21/32] mm, rmap: account shmem thp pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 12/32] thp: prepare change_huge_pmd() for file thp "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 08/32] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 05/32] rmap: support file thp "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 11/32] thp: skip file huge pmd on copy_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
  [PATCHv9-rebased 00/32] THP-enabled tmpfs/shmem using compound pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 22/32] shmem: prepare huge= mount option and sysfs knob "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 15/32] thp, mlock: do not mlock PTE-mapped file huge pages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 17/32] page-flags: relax policy for PG_mappedtodisk and PG_reclaim "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 20/32] truncate: handle file thp "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 18/32] radix-tree: implement radix_tree_maybe_preload_order() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 09/32] thp: handle file pages in split_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200
    [PATCHv9-rebased 14/32] thp: file pages support for split_huge_page() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-07 13:20 +0200

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