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From: Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	baohua@kernel.org, zhaonanzhe@xiaomi.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	mhocko@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
	shakeel.butt@linux.dev, muchun.song@linux.dev, chrisl@kernel.org,
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	rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, qi.zheng@linux.dev,
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	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, hughd@google.com,
	Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] mm/shmem: split large folios only on -E2BIG
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:25:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717122514.51514-5-xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260717122514.51514-1-xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>

shmem_writeout() currently splits a large folio on every
folio_alloc_swap() failure. With the refined return-value contract, only
-E2BIG indicates that splitting might allow smaller folios to be swapped
out.

Enter the split fallback only for -E2BIG. For -ENOSPC and -ENOMEM,
redirty and reactivate the folio as before.

Suggested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 3b5dc21b323c..d76812dd3cef 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1599,6 +1599,7 @@ int shmem_writeout(struct folio *folio, struct swap_iocb **plug,
 	struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(inode->i_sb);
 	pgoff_t index;
 	int nr_pages;
+	int ret;
 	bool split = false;
 
 	if ((info->flags & SHMEM_F_LOCKED) || sbinfo->noswap)
@@ -1679,7 +1680,8 @@ int shmem_writeout(struct folio *folio, struct swap_iocb **plug,
 		folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
 	}
 
-	if (!folio_alloc_swap(folio)) {
+	ret = folio_alloc_swap(folio);
+	if (!ret) {
 		bool first_swapped = shmem_recalc_inode(inode, 0, nr_pages);
 		int error;
 
@@ -1732,7 +1734,7 @@ int shmem_writeout(struct folio *folio, struct swap_iocb **plug,
 		swap_cache_del_folio(folio);
 		goto redirty;
 	}
-	if (nr_pages > 1)
+	if (ret == -E2BIG)
 		goto try_split;
 redirty:
 	folio_mark_dirty(folio);
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-17 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-17 12:25 [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] mm: avoid large folio splits when swap is unavailable Xueyuan Chen
2026-07-17 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] mm: add page_counter_margin() Xueyuan Chen
2026-07-17 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] mm: distinguish large folio swap allocation failures Xueyuan Chen
2026-07-21  8:15   ` Barry Song
2026-07-21 11:53     ` Johannes Weiner
2026-07-23 14:49     ` Xueyuan Chen
2026-07-21 16:13   ` Youngjun Park
2026-07-23 15:15     ` Xueyuan Chen
2026-07-17 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] mm/vmscan: avoid pointless large folio splits without swap Xueyuan Chen
2026-07-21  8:00   ` Barry Song
2026-07-17 12:25 ` Xueyuan Chen [this message]
2026-07-21  7:57   ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] mm/shmem: split large folios only on -E2BIG Barry Song

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