[Devel] [PATCH 4/6 mm] memcgroup: reinstate swapoff mod

[Hugh Dickins]

This patch reinstates the "swapoff: scan ptes preemptibly" mod we started
with: in due course it should be rendered down into the earlier patches,
leaving us with a more straightforward mem_cgroup_charge mod to unuse_pte,
allocating with GFP_KERNEL while holding no spinlock and no atomic kmap.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh at veritas.com>
---
Insert just after memory-controller-make-charging-gfp-mask-aware.patch or
you may prefer to insert 4-6 all together before memory-cgroup-enhancements

 mm/swapfile.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- patch3/mm/swapfile.c	2007-11-08 15:48:08.000000000 +0000
+++ patch4/mm/swapfile.c	2007-11-08 15:55:12.000000000 +0000
@@ -507,11 +507,23 @@ unsigned int count_swap_pages(int type, 
  * just let do_wp_page work it out if a write is requested later - to
  * force COW, vm_page_prot omits write permission from any private vma.
  */
-static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t *pte,
+static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		unsigned long addr, swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
 {
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	pte_t *pte;
+	int ret = 1;
+
 	if (mem_cgroup_charge(page, vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+
+	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+	if (unlikely(!pte_same(*pte, swp_entry_to_pte(entry)))) {
+		if (ret > 0)
+			mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(page);
+		ret = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	inc_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, anon_rss);
 	get_page(page);
@@ -524,7 +536,9 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_stru
 	 * immediately swapped out again after swapon.
 	 */
 	activate_page(page);
-	return 1;
+out:
+	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int unuse_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
@@ -533,21 +547,33 @@ static int unuse_pte_range(struct vm_are
 {
 	pte_t swp_pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
 	pte_t *pte;
-	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+	/*
+	 * We don't actually need pte lock while scanning for swp_pte: since
+	 * we hold page lock and mmap_sem, swp_pte cannot be inserted into the
+	 * page table while we're scanning; though it could get zapped, and on
+	 * some architectures (e.g. x86_32 with PAE) we might catch a glimpse
+	 * of unmatched parts which look like swp_pte, so unuse_pte must
+	 * recheck under pte lock.  Scanning without pte lock lets it be
+	 * preemptible whenever CONFIG_PREEMPT but not CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
+	 */
+	pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
 	do {
 		/*
 		 * swapoff spends a _lot_ of time in this loop!
 		 * Test inline before going to call unuse_pte.
 		 */
 		if (unlikely(pte_same(*pte, swp_pte))) {
-			ret = unuse_pte(vma, pte++, addr, entry, page);
-			break;
+			pte_unmap(pte);
+			ret = unuse_pte(vma, pmd, addr, entry, page);
+			if (ret)
+				goto out;
+			pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
 		}
 	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
-	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
+	pte_unmap(pte - 1);
+out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
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