[RESEND PATCH v7 6/8] mm: Add APIs to free a folio directly to the buddy bypassing pcp

From: Byungchul Park
Date: Thu Feb 08 2024 - 01:28:00 EST


This is a preparation for migrc mechanism that frees folios at a better
time later, rather than the moment migrating folios. The folios freed by
migrc are too old to keep in pcp.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@xxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/internal.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++++
mm/swap.c | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index da5219b48d52..fc0581cce3a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1284,6 +1284,7 @@ static inline struct folio *virt_to_folio(const void *x)
}

void __folio_put(struct folio *folio);
+void __folio_put_small_nopcp(struct folio *folio);

void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages);

@@ -1483,6 +1484,28 @@ static inline void folio_put(struct folio *folio)
__folio_put(folio);
}

+/**
+ * folio_put_small_nopcp - Decrement the reference count on a folio.
+ * @folio: The folio.
+ *
+ * This is only for a single page folio to release directly to the buddy
+ * allocator bypassing pcp.
+ *
+ * If the folio's reference count reaches zero, the memory will be
+ * released back to the page allocator and may be used by another
+ * allocation immediately. Do not access the memory or the struct folio
+ * after calling folio_put_small_nopcp() unless you can be sure that it
+ * wasn't the last reference.
+ *
+ * Context: May be called in process or interrupt context, but not in NMI
+ * context. May be called while holding a spinlock.
+ */
+static inline void folio_put_small_nopcp(struct folio *folio)
+{
+ if (folio_put_testzero(folio))
+ __folio_put_small_nopcp(folio);
+}
+
/**
* folio_put_refs - Reduce the reference count on a folio.
* @folio: The folio.
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index b880f1e78700..3be8fd5604e8 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ extern int user_min_free_kbytes;

extern void free_unref_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
extern void free_unref_page_list(struct list_head *list);
+extern void free_pages_nopcp(struct page *page, unsigned int order);

extern void zone_pcp_reset(struct zone *zone);
extern void zone_pcp_disable(struct zone *zone);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 733732e7e0ba..21b8c8cd1673 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -565,6 +565,16 @@ static inline void free_the_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_NONE);
}

+void free_pages_nopcp(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+ /*
+ * This function will be used in case that the pages are too
+ * cold to keep in pcp e.g. migrc mechanism. So it'd better
+ * release the pages to the tail.
+ */
+ __free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL);
+}
+
/*
* Higher-order pages are called "compound pages". They are structured thusly:
*
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index cd8f0150ba3a..3f37496a1184 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ static void __folio_put_small(struct folio *folio)
free_unref_page(&folio->page, 0);
}

+void __folio_put_small_nopcp(struct folio *folio)
+{
+ __page_cache_release(folio);
+ mem_cgroup_uncharge(folio);
+ free_pages_nopcp(&folio->page, 0);
+}
+
static void __folio_put_large(struct folio *folio)
{
/*
--
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