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linux/drivers
Christoph Lameter bc3e53f682 mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages
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>
2011-10-31 17:30:46 -07:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'next-rebase' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2011-10-28 14:20:44 -07:00
amba
ata Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2011-10-25 13:25:22 +02:00
auxdisplay
base Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 2011-10-25 15:18:39 +02:00
bcma
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-client 2011-10-28 16:42:18 -07:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 2011-10-25 15:18:39 +02:00
cdrom
char Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2011-10-28 05:54:23 -07:00
clk
clocksource Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 17:15:03 +02:00
connector
cpufreq Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 17:15:03 +02:00
cpuidle
crypto
dca
devfreq
dio
dma
edac
eisa
firewire
firmware
gpio Merge branch 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-10-29 07:27:45 -07:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2011-10-28 05:54:23 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2011-10-26 21:46:20 -07:00
hv
hwmon Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-28 05:14:48 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c i2c-algo-pca: Return standard fault codes 2011-10-30 13:47:25 +01:00
ide Merge branch 'gpio' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm 2011-10-27 08:39:10 +02:00
idle
ieee802154
infiniband mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages 2011-10-31 17:30:46 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound 2011-10-28 14:25:01 -07:00
iommu Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu 2011-10-30 15:46:19 -07:00
isdn Merge branch 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty 2011-10-26 15:11:09 +02:00
leds Merge branch 'x86-geode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-28 05:04:26 -07:00
lguest lguest: move process freezing before pending signals check 2011-10-27 10:56:18 +10:30
macintosh
mca
md Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md 2011-10-31 15:21:29 -07:00
media Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu 2011-10-30 15:46:19 -07:00
memstick
message
mfd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound 2011-10-28 14:25:01 -07:00
misc Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core 2011-10-25 12:13:59 +02:00
mmc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc 2011-10-28 14:16:11 -07:00
mtd Merge branch 'gpio' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm 2011-10-27 08:39:10 +02:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-10-31 15:22:44 -07:00
nfc
nubus
of of_mdio: Don't phy_scan_fixups() twice 2011-10-25 06:55:52 +02:00
oprofile
parisc
parport parport_pc: release IO region properly if unsupported ITE887x card is found 2011-10-18 14:17:40 -07:00
pci Merge branch 'next-rebase' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2011-10-28 14:20:44 -07:00
pcmcia Merge branch 'gpio' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm 2011-10-27 08:39:10 +02:00
pinctrl pinctrl/sirf: fix sirfsoc_get_group_pins prototype 2011-10-25 10:43:57 +02:00
platform
pnp
power
pps
ps3
ptp
rapidio
regulator
rtc
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
sbus
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
sfi
sh
sn
spi Merge branch 'spi/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-10-29 07:28:36 -07:00
ssb
staging Merge branch 'fbdev-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6 2011-10-30 15:30:01 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-10-25 12:11:02 +02:00
tc
telephony
thermal
tty Merge branch 'spi/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-10-29 07:28:36 -07:00
uio uio: Support physical addresses >32 bits on 32-bit systems 2011-10-18 11:18:57 -07:00
usb Merge branch 'devel-stable' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm 2011-10-28 12:02:27 -07:00
uwb
vhost
video Merge branch 'fbdev-next' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6 2011-10-30 15:30:01 -07:00
virt
virtio Add ethtool -g support to virtio_net 2011-10-24 02:07:21 -04:00
vlynq
w1
watchdog Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 17:03:38 +02:00
xen Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 16:44:09 +02:00
zorro zorro: Fix four checkpatch warnings 2011-10-24 21:00:34 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging 2011-10-26 15:39:02 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging 2011-10-26 15:39:02 +02:00