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Migrate a page with buffers without requiring writeback

This introduces a new address space operation migrate_page() that
may be used by a filesystem to implement its own version of page migration.

A version is provided that migrates buffers attached to pages. Some
filesystems (ext2, ext3, xfs) are modified to utilize this feature.

The swapper address space operation are modified so that a regular
migrate_pages() will occur for anonymous pages without writeback
(migrate_pages forces every anonymous page to have a swap entry).

V1->V2:
- Fix CONFIG_MIGRATION handling

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2005-11-07 11:48:46.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/include/linux/fs.h 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ struct address_space_operations {
loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
struct page* (*get_xip_page)(struct address_space *, sector_t,
int);
+ /* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
+ int (*migrate_page) (struct page *, struct page *);
};

struct backing_dev_info;
@@ -1679,6 +1681,12 @@ extern void simple_release_fs(struct vfs

extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *, size_t, loff_t *, const void *, size_t);

+#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
+extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct page *, struct page *);
+#else
+#define buffer_migrate_page(a,b) NULL
+#endif
+
extern int inode_change_ok(struct inode *, struct iattr *);
extern int __must_check inode_setattr(struct inode *, struct iattr *);

Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/mm/swap_state.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/mm/swap_state.c 2005-11-07 11:48:49.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/mm/swap_state.c 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ static struct address_space_operations s
.writepage = swap_writepage,
.sync_page = block_sync_page,
.set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_nobuffers,
+ .migrate_page = migrate_page,
};

static struct backing_dev_info swap_backing_dev_info = {
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2005-11-07 11:48:07.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -1348,4 +1348,5 @@ struct address_space_operations linvfs_a
.commit_write = generic_commit_write,
.bmap = linvfs_bmap,
.direct_IO = linvfs_direct_IO,
+ .migrate_page = buffer_migrate_page,
};
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/buffer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/fs/buffer.c 2005-11-07 11:48:25.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/buffer.c 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -3026,6 +3026,70 @@ asmlinkage long sys_bdflush(int func, lo
}

/*
+ * Migration function for pages with buffers. This function can only be used
+ * if the underlying filesystem guarantees that no other references to "page"
+ * exist.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
+int buffer_migrate_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
+ struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
+
+ if (!mapping)
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ if (!page_has_buffers(page))
+ return migrate_page(newpage, page);
+
+ head = page_buffers(page);
+
+ if (migrate_page_remove_references(newpage, page, 3))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
+
+ bh = head;
+ do {
+ get_bh(bh);
+ lock_buffer(bh);
+ bh = bh->b_this_page;
+
+ } while (bh != head);
+
+ ClearPagePrivate(page);
+ set_page_private(newpage, page_private(page));
+ set_page_private(page, 0);
+ put_page(page);
+ get_page(newpage);
+
+ bh = head;
+ do {
+ set_bh_page(bh, newpage, bh_offset(bh));
+ bh = bh->b_this_page;
+
+ } while (bh != head);
+
+ SetPagePrivate(newpage);
+ spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
+
+ migrate_page_copy(newpage, page);
+
+ spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
+ bh = head;
+ do {
+ unlock_buffer(bh);
+ put_bh(bh);
+ bh = bh->b_this_page;
+
+ } while (bh != head);
+ spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
+/*
* Buffer-head allocation
*/
static kmem_cache_t *bh_cachep;
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/ext3/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c 2005-11-07 11:48:24.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/ext3/inode.c 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -1562,6 +1562,7 @@ static struct address_space_operations e
.invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage,
.releasepage = ext3_releasepage,
.direct_IO = ext3_direct_IO,
+ .migrate_page = buffer_migrate_page,
};

static struct address_space_operations ext3_writeback_aops = {
@@ -1575,6 +1576,7 @@ static struct address_space_operations e
.invalidatepage = ext3_invalidatepage,
.releasepage = ext3_releasepage,
.direct_IO = ext3_direct_IO,
+ .migrate_page = buffer_migrate_page,
};

static struct address_space_operations ext3_journalled_aops = {
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/ext2/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/fs/ext2/inode.c 2005-11-07 11:48:07.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/ext2/inode.c 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ struct address_space_operations ext2_aop
.bmap = ext2_bmap,
.direct_IO = ext2_direct_IO,
.writepages = ext2_writepages,
+ .migrate_page = buffer_migrate_page,
};

struct address_space_operations ext2_aops_xip = {
@@ -723,6 +724,7 @@ struct address_space_operations ext2_nob
.bmap = ext2_bmap,
.direct_IO = ext2_direct_IO,
.writepages = ext2_writepages,
+ .migrate_page = buffer_migrate_page,
};

/*
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2005-11-07 11:48:07.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -1568,6 +1568,7 @@ xfs_mapping_buftarg(
struct address_space *mapping;
static struct address_space_operations mapping_aops = {
.sync_page = block_sync_page,
+ .migrate_page = fail_migrate_page,
};

inode = new_inode(bdev->bd_inode->i_sb);
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2005-11-08 10:16:58.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/mm/vmscan.c 2005-11-08 10:19:30.000000000 -0800
@@ -571,6 +571,15 @@ keep:
return reclaimed;
}

+/*
+ * Non migratable page
+ */
+int fail_migrate_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
+{
+ return -EIO;
+}
+
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
/*
* swapout a single page
@@ -905,6 +914,11 @@ redo:
if (!mapping)
goto unlock_both;

+ if (mapping->a_ops->migrate_page) {
+ rc = mapping->a_ops->migrate_page(newpage, page);
+ goto unlock_both;
+ }
+
/*
* Trigger writeout if page is dirty
*/
Index: linux-2.6.14-mm1/include/linux/swap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-mm1.orig/include/linux/swap.h 2005-11-08 10:16:58.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-mm1/include/linux/swap.h 2005-11-08 10:18:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ extern int migrate_pages(struct list_hea
extern int migrate_page(struct page *, struct page *);
extern int migrate_page_remove_references(struct page *, struct page *, int);
extern void migrate_page_copy(struct page *, struct page *);
+extern int fail_migrate_page(struct page *, struct page *);
+#else
+/* Possible settings for the migrate_page() method in address_operations */
+#define migrate_page(a,b) NULL
+#define fail_migrate_page(a,b) NULL
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-
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