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, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 889e98bc5a2..834f0fe96f8 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ out_error:
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
-		struct page *page, bool sync)
+		struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
 {
 	/*
 	 * If PagePrivate is set, then the page is currently associated with
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
 
 	nfs_fscache_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
+	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
 }
 #endif