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Commit 8cc621d2 authored by Minchan Kim's avatar Minchan Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: fs: invalidate BH LRU during page migration

Pages containing buffer_heads that are in one of the per-CPU buffer_head
LRU caches will be pinned and thus cannot be migrated.  This can prevent
CMA allocations from succeeding, which are often used on platforms with
co-processors (such as a DSP) that can only use physically contiguous
memory.  It can also prevent memory hot-unplugging from succeeding,
which involves migrating at least MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE bytes of memory,
which ranges from 8 MiB to 1 GiB based on the architecture in use.

Correspondingly, invalidate the BH LRU caches before a migration starts
and stop any buffer_head from being cached in the LRU caches, until
migration has finished.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319175127.886124-3-minchan@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarChris Goldsworthy <cgoldswo@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: default avatarLaura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarOliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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