mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compaction

Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory.  When an arbitrary value is
written to the file, all zones are compacted.  The expected user of such a
trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target
application runs.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index be1ff3f..77854fb 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/compaction.h>
 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 /*
@@ -391,3 +392,64 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
 
 	return ret;
 }
+
+/* Compact all zones within a node */
+static int compact_node(int nid)
+{
+	int zoneid;
+	pg_data_t *pgdat;
+	struct zone *zone;
+
+	if (nid < 0 || nid >= nr_node_ids || !node_online(nid))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
+
+	/* Flush pending updates to the LRU lists */
+	lru_add_drain_all();
+
+	for (zoneid = 0; zoneid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zoneid++) {
+		struct compact_control cc = {
+			.nr_freepages = 0,
+			.nr_migratepages = 0,
+		};
+
+		zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zoneid];
+		if (!populated_zone(zone))
+			continue;
+
+		cc.zone = zone;
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.freepages);
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
+
+		compact_zone(zone, &cc);
+
+		VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.freepages));
+		VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.migratepages));
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* Compact all nodes in the system */
+static int compact_nodes(void)
+{
+	int nid;
+
+	for_each_online_node(nid)
+		compact_node(nid);
+
+	return COMPACT_COMPLETE;
+}
+
+/* The written value is actually unused, all memory is compacted */
+int sysctl_compact_memory;
+
+/* This is the entry point for compacting all nodes via /proc/sys/vm */
+int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+			void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	if (write)
+		return compact_nodes();
+
+	return 0;
+}