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Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked". The difference between mlocking and pinning is: A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from swapping. Page migration may move them around though. They are kept on a special LRU list. B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to directly access physical memory. They may not be on any LRU list. I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some memory was accounted for twice: Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA memory. This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and accounts them seperately. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Kconfig | ||
Makefile | ||
array.c | ||
base.c | ||
cmdline.c | ||
consoles.c | ||
cpuinfo.c | ||
devices.c | ||
generic.c | ||
inode.c | ||
internal.h | ||
interrupts.c | ||
kcore.c | ||
kmsg.c | ||
loadavg.c | ||
meminfo.c | ||
mmu.c | ||
namespaces.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
page.c | ||
proc_devtree.c | ||
proc_net.c | ||
proc_sysctl.c | ||
proc_tty.c | ||
root.c | ||
softirqs.c | ||
stat.c | ||
task_mmu.c | ||
task_nommu.c | ||
uptime.c | ||
version.c | ||
vmcore.c |