[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interface

sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration

This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first
half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.

The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process.  A process may
have migrated to another node.  Memory was allocated optimally for the prior
context.  sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node.

sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have
changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory.  Paul
Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic
migration if the cpuset of a process is changed.  However, a user may decide
to manually control the migration.

This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and
functions that are also needed for mbind and friends.  The patch also provides
a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically
move memory.  sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's
implementation.

The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and
thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing
nodeset (which may be a cpuset).  When direct page migration becomes available
then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages
between different nodesets.  The current implementation simply evicts all
pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset.

Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

6 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/unistd.h b/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
index fe38b9a..481c3c0 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
@@ -299,8 +299,9 @@
 #define __NR_inotify_init	291
 #define __NR_inotify_add_watch	292
 #define __NR_inotify_rm_watch	293
+#define __NR_migrate_pages	294
 
-#define NR_syscalls 294
+#define NR_syscalls 295
 
 /*
  * user-visible error numbers are in the range -1 - -128: see
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h b/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h
index 2bf5434..962f9bd 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h
@@ -269,12 +269,13 @@
 #define __NR_inotify_init		1277
 #define __NR_inotify_add_watch		1278
 #define __NR_inotify_rm_watch		1279
+#define __NR_migrate_pages		1280
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
 
-#define NR_syscalls			256 /* length of syscall table */
+#define NR_syscalls			270 /* length of syscall table */
 
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION
 
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/ia32_unistd.h b/include/asm-x86_64/ia32_unistd.h
index d5166ec..e884336 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/ia32_unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/ia32_unistd.h
@@ -299,7 +299,8 @@
 #define __NR_ia32_inotify_init		291
 #define __NR_ia32_inotify_add_watch	292
 #define __NR_ia32_inotify_rm_watch	293
+#define __NR_ia32_migrate_pages		294
 
-#define IA32_NR_syscalls 294	/* must be > than biggest syscall! */
+#define IA32_NR_syscalls 295	/* must be > than biggest syscall! */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_64_IA32_UNISTD_H_ */
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
index 2c42150..e6f8961 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
@@ -571,8 +571,10 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_inotify_init, sys_inotify_init)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_inotify_add_watch, sys_inotify_add_watch)
 #define __NR_inotify_rm_watch	255
 __SYSCALL(__NR_inotify_rm_watch, sys_inotify_rm_watch)
+#define __NR_migrate_pages	256
+__SYSCALL(__NR_migrate_pages, sys_migrate_pages)
 
-#define __NR_syscall_max __NR_inotify_rm_watch
+#define __NR_syscall_max __NR_migrate_pages
 #ifndef __NO_STUBS
 
 /* user-visible error numbers are in the range -1 - -4095 */
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index 05443a7..3e61e82 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ static inline void check_highest_zone(int k)
 		policy_zone = k;
 }
 
+int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
+	const nodemask_t *from_nodes, const nodemask_t *to_nodes, int flags);
+
 #else
 
 struct mempolicy {};
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index c7007b1..e910d1a 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -511,5 +511,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioprio_set(int which, int who, int ioprio);
 asmlinkage long sys_ioprio_get(int which, int who);
 asmlinkage long sys_set_mempolicy(int mode, unsigned long __user *nmask,
 					unsigned long maxnode);
+asmlinkage long sys_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode,
+			const unsigned long __user *from, const unsigned long __user *to);
 
 #endif