* [PATCH 2/2] can_share_swap_page: use page_mapcount
2005-06-06 19:57 [PATCH 1/2] do_wp_page: cannot share file page Hugh Dickins
@ 2005-06-06 20:00 ` Hugh Dickins
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From: Hugh Dickins @ 2005-06-06 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli, Christoph Lameter, IWAMOTO Toshihiro,
Timur Tabi, linux-kernel
Remember that ironic get_user_pages race? when the raised page_count on a
page swapped out led do_wp_page to decide that it had to copy on write, so
substituted a different page into userspace. 2.6.7 onwards have Andrea's
solution, where try_to_unmap_one backs out if it finds page_count raised.
Which works, but is unsatisfying (rmap.c has no other page_count heuristics),
and was found a few months ago to hang an intensive page migration test. A
year ago I was hesitant to engage page_mapcount, now it seems the right fix.
So remove the page_count hack from try_to_unmap_one; and use activate_page
in unuse_mm when dropping lock, to replace its secondary effect of helping
swapoff to make progress in that case.
Simplify can_share_swap_page (now called only on anonymous pages) to check
page_mapcount + page_swapcount == 1: still needs the page lock to stabilize
their (pessimistic) sum, but does not need swapper_space.tree_lock for that.
In do_swap_page, move swap_free and unlock_page below page_add_anon_rmap,
to keep sum on the high side, and correct when can_share_swap_page called.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
---
mm/memory.c | 10 +++++-----
mm/rmap.c | 21 ---------------------
mm/swapfile.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
--- 2.6.10-rc6+/mm/memory.c 2005-06-05 11:29:35.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/mm/memory.c 2005-06-05 11:53:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -1711,10 +1711,6 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
}
/* The page isn't present yet, go ahead with the fault. */
-
- swap_free(entry);
- if (vm_swap_full())
- remove_exclusive_swap_page(page);
inc_mm_counter(mm, rss);
pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
@@ -1722,12 +1718,16 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(pte), vma);
write_access = 0;
}
- unlock_page(page);
flush_icache_page(vma, page);
set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, pte);
page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);
+ swap_free(entry);
+ if (vm_swap_full())
+ remove_exclusive_swap_page(page);
+ unlock_page(page);
+
if (write_access) {
if (do_wp_page(mm, vma, address,
page_table, pmd, pte) == VM_FAULT_OOM)
--- 2.6.10-rc6+/mm/rmap.c 2005-05-25 18:09:21.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/mm/rmap.c 2005-06-05 11:53:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -539,27 +539,6 @@ static int try_to_unmap_one(struct page
goto out_unmap;
}
- /*
- * Don't pull an anonymous page out from under get_user_pages.
- * GUP carefully breaks COW and raises page count (while holding
- * page_table_lock, as we have here) to make sure that the page
- * cannot be freed. If we unmap that page here, a user write
- * access to the virtual address will bring back the page, but
- * its raised count will (ironically) be taken to mean it's not
- * an exclusive swap page, do_wp_page will replace it by a copy
- * page, and the user never get to see the data GUP was holding
- * the original page for.
- *
- * This test is also useful for when swapoff (unuse_process) has
- * to drop page lock: its reference to the page stops existing
- * ptes from being unmapped, so swapoff can make progress.
- */
- if (PageSwapCache(page) &&
- page_count(page) != page_mapcount(page) + 2) {
- ret = SWAP_FAIL;
- goto out_unmap;
- }
-
/* Nuke the page table entry. */
flush_cache_page(vma, address, page_to_pfn(page));
pteval = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pte);
--- 2.6.12-rc6+/mm/swapfile.c 2005-05-25 18:09:21.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/mm/swapfile.c 2005-06-05 11:53:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -276,61 +276,37 @@ void swap_free(swp_entry_t entry)
}
/*
- * Check if we're the only user of a swap page,
- * when the page is locked.
+ * How many references to page are currently swapped out?
*/
-static int exclusive_swap_page(struct page *page)
+static inline int page_swapcount(struct page *page)
{
- int retval = 0;
- struct swap_info_struct * p;
+ int count = 0;
+ struct swap_info_struct *p;
swp_entry_t entry;
entry.val = page->private;
p = swap_info_get(entry);
if (p) {
- /* Is the only swap cache user the cache itself? */
- if (p->swap_map[swp_offset(entry)] == 1) {
- /* Recheck the page count with the swapcache lock held.. */
- write_lock_irq(&swapper_space.tree_lock);
- if (page_count(page) == 2)
- retval = 1;
- write_unlock_irq(&swapper_space.tree_lock);
- }
+ /* Subtract the 1 for the swap cache itself */
+ count = p->swap_map[swp_offset(entry)] - 1;
swap_info_put(p);
}
- return retval;
+ return count;
}
/*
* We can use this swap cache entry directly
* if there are no other references to it.
- *
- * Here "exclusive_swap_page()" does the real
- * work, but we opportunistically check whether
- * we need to get all the locks first..
*/
int can_share_swap_page(struct page *page)
{
- int retval = 0;
+ int count;
- if (!PageLocked(page))
- BUG();
- switch (page_count(page)) {
- case 3:
- if (!PagePrivate(page))
- break;
- /* Fallthrough */
- case 2:
- if (!PageSwapCache(page))
- break;
- retval = exclusive_swap_page(page);
- break;
- case 1:
- if (PageReserved(page))
- break;
- retval = 1;
- }
- return retval;
+ BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+ count = page_mapcount(page);
+ if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page))
+ count += page_swapcount(page);
+ return count == 1;
}
/*
@@ -529,9 +505,10 @@ static int unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm
if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
/*
- * Our reference to the page stops try_to_unmap_one from
- * unmapping its ptes, so swapoff can make progress.
+ * Activate page so shrink_cache is unlikely to unmap its
+ * ptes while lock is dropped, so swapoff can make progress.
*/
+ activate_page(page);
unlock_page(page);
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
lock_page(page);
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