vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctl

This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable
lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective
zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them.

Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual
nodes' zones.

Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write
/proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of
these pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Lee Schermerhorn
2008-10-18 20:26:53 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 64d6519dda
commit af936a1606
6 changed files with 201 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/nodemask.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
static struct sysdev_class node_class = {
.name = "node",
@ -191,6 +192,8 @@ int register_node(struct node *node, int num, struct node *parent)
sysdev_create_file(&node->sysdev, &attr_meminfo);
sysdev_create_file(&node->sysdev, &attr_numastat);
sysdev_create_file(&node->sysdev, &attr_distance);
scan_unevictable_register_node(node);
}
return error;
}
@ -210,6 +213,8 @@ void unregister_node(struct node *node)
sysdev_remove_file(&node->sysdev, &attr_numastat);
sysdev_remove_file(&node->sysdev, &attr_distance);
scan_unevictable_unregister_node(node);
sysdev_unregister(&node->sysdev);
}