mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction

This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage.  Async compaction
maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
used.

This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
->writepages.

[aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b92b73d..e694bd4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ enum positive_aop_returns {
 struct page;
 struct address_space;
 struct writeback_control;
+enum migrate_mode;
 
 struct iov_iter {
 	const struct iovec *iov;
@@ -614,7 +615,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
 	 * is false, it must not block.
 	 */
 	int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *,
-			struct page *, struct page *, bool);
+			struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
 	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
 	int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *,
 					unsigned long);
@@ -2540,7 +2541,8 @@ extern int generic_check_addressable(unsigned, u64);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
-				struct page *, struct page *, bool);
+				struct page *, struct page *,
+				enum migrate_mode);
 #else
 #define buffer_migrate_page NULL
 #endif