From: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, chrisl@kernel.org,
kasong@tencent.com, nphamcs@gmail.com, baohua@kernel.org,
youngjun.park@lge.com, corbet@lwn.net, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
chengming.zhou@linux.dev, kunwu.chan@gmail.com,
klarasmodin@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v5 12/19] mm, swap: let swapoff destroy xswap devices by name
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 13:54:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109055455.536925-13-baoquan.he@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109055455.536925-1-baoquan.he@linux.dev>
From: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
An xswap device has no backing file, so /proc/swaps shows a synthetic
name, xswap<id>, that file_open_name() cannot open. Teach swapoff to
fall back to xswap_destroy() when the name is exactly "xswap<digits>"
and the lookup failed with -ENOENT.
A real file or directory keeps precedence; other open errors are
returned unchanged, so a file that exists but cannot be opened is not
mistaken for an xswap device. The ABI documentation is updated, and
the destroy attribute remains the unambiguous teardown interface.
A well-formed name for an id that does not exist asks xswap_destroy()
for a device that is not there. It returns -ENODEV; map that to
-ENOENT so swapoff reports a missing name like it does for a missing
file.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
---
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap | 11 +++-
mm/swapfile.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap
index 38eead0b1b31..f7e7f3e4d216 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-xswap
@@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ Description: File-less swap devices backed by zswap.
for the lifetime of the device.
The name shown in /proc/swaps, xswap<id>, is synthetic and
- is not a path. It cannot be passed to swapoff(2), so
- swapoff -a reports an error for these entries. Use the
- destroy attribute instead.
+ is not a path. swapoff(2) accepts it, so both "swapoff
+ xswap<id>" and swapoff -a tear the device down. A real
+ file or directory with that name takes precedence: if it
+ opens, it is looked up as a swap file and the synthetic
+ device is not used. Only a name that cannot be opened
+ because it does not exist, including a dangling symlink,
+ is treated as an xswap device. Use the destroy attribute
+ for an unambiguous teardown.
An xswap device requires zswap. Disabling zswap at runtime
(enabled=0, or max_pool_percent=0) while xswap devices
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index cb53f9415de8..7b1d16226b7b 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ static int xswap_mapped_end(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data);
static int xswap_create(int prio);
static int xswap_destroy(u64 id);
+static int xswap_destroy_by_name(const char *name);
/* Stable device id, assigned at create and never reused. */
static atomic64_t xswap_id_counter = ATOMIC64_INIT(0);
@@ -275,6 +277,11 @@ static void xswap_sysfs_init(void)
static inline void xswap_sysfs_init(void)
{
}
+
+static inline int xswap_destroy_by_name(const char *name)
+{
+ return -ENOENT;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_XSWAP */
static void swap_range_alloc(struct swap_info_struct *si,
@@ -3513,8 +3520,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
CLASS(filename, pathname)(specialfile);
victim = file_open_name(pathname, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(victim))
- return PTR_ERR(victim);
+ if (IS_ERR(victim)) {
+ /*
+ * An xswap device has no file, so /proc/swaps shows a name
+ * that cannot be opened. Accept it here so swapoff -a works.
+ * Only a missing name is taken for a device; a real file or
+ * directory that failed for another reason must not match.
+ */
+ if (PTR_ERR(victim) != -ENOENT)
+ return PTR_ERR(victim);
+
+ err = xswap_destroy_by_name(pathname->name);
+ if (err == -ENOENT)
+ return PTR_ERR(victim);
+ return err;
+ }
mapping = victim->f_mapping;
spin_lock(&swap_lock);
@@ -4504,6 +4524,38 @@ static int xswap_destroy(u64 id)
return __swapoff(p);
}
+
+static int xswap_destroy_by_name(const char *name)
+{
+ const char *p;
+ char buf[24];
+ u64 id;
+ int err;
+
+ /* Strictly "xswap<digits>": no sign, no trailing newline. */
+ if (strncmp(name, "xswap", 5))
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ p = name + 5;
+ if (!isdigit((unsigned char)*p))
+ return -ENOENT;
+ while (isdigit((unsigned char)*p))
+ p++;
+ if (*p)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ if (strscpy(buf, name + 5, sizeof(buf)) < 0)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ err = kstrtou64(buf, 10, &id);
+ if (err)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ err = xswap_destroy(id);
+ if (err == -ENODEV)
+ return -ENOENT;
+ return err;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_XSWAP */
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-09 5:54 [PATCH v5 00/19] mm, swap: extendable swap devices (xswap phase I) Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 01/19] mm: xswap support for zswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 02/19] mm, swap: refactor free_swap_cluster_info to take swap_info_struct Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 03/19] mm, swap: add VM_SPARSE cluster-array helpers for xswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 04/19] mm, swap: use a VM_SPARSE cluster array for xswap devices Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 05/19] mm, swap: widen swap_info_struct max/pages to unsigned long Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 06/19] mm, swap: add a sysfs interface to create xswap devices Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 07/19] mm, swap: refactor swapoff and add xswap_destroy Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 08/19] mm, swap: require zswap for xswap devices Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 09/19] mm, swap: use a stable id " Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 10/19] mm, swap: let the command line set the xswap device size Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 11/19] mm, swap: add CONFIG_XSWAP_DEFAULT_MAX Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 13/19] mm, swap: add xswap grow trigger on cluster allocation Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 14/19] mm, swap: add debugfs counters for xswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 15/19] mm, swap: make xswap cluster_info accesses RCU-safe Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 16/19] mm, swap: prepare xswap_unmap_clusters for range shrinking Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 17/19] mm, swap: add xswap shrink trigger and defer it to a workqueue Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 18/19] mm, swap: do not give an xswap slot to a cgroup that cannot zswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09 5:54 ` [PATCH v5 19/19] mm, swap: skip the overcommit probe when removing xswap Baoquan He
2026-11-09 6:15 ` [PATCH v5 00/19] mm, swap: extendable swap devices (xswap phase I) Baoquan He
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