vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctl

This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable
lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective
zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them.

Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual
nodes' zones.

Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write
/proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of
these pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 07eda69..a3af95b 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/node.h>
 
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
@@ -235,15 +236,29 @@ static inline int zone_reclaim(struct zone *z, gfp_t mask, unsigned int order)
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
 extern int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 extern void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *);
+
+extern unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages;
+extern int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *,
+					void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
+extern int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node *node);
+extern void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node);
 #else
 static inline int page_evictable(struct page *page,
 						struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	return 1;
 }
+
 static inline void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 }
+
+static inline int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node *node)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node) { }
 #endif
 
 extern int kswapd_run(int nid);