tree d2c97d4a8c3db37796535d5758c06841cb4781cb
parent e496cf3d782135c1cca0d154d4b924517ff58de0
author Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> 1469571998 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1469575159 -0700

shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure

Even if user asked to allocate huge pages always (huge=always), we
should be able to free up some memory by splitting pages which are
partly byound i_size if memory presure comes or once we hit limit on
filesystem size (-o size=).

In order to do this we maintain per-superblock list of inodes, which
potentially have huge pages on the border of file size.

Per-fs shrinker can reclaim memory by splitting such pages.

If we hit -ENOSPC during shmem_getpage_gfp(), we try to split a page to
free up space on the filesystem and retry allocation if it succeed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-37-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>