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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2008-02-04 22:28:46 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:15 -0800
commit2e441889c38fe1b6ef6b963e6993076aa120176c (patch)
treef8cc99d2b8a3b90c6ff2c3e6d14e90d7edd95d7e /mm
parent8952898b0d25223f38daf46b86156fd1c4d17ad0 (diff)
swapoff: scan ptes preemptibly
Provided that CONFIG_HIGHPTE is not set, unuse_pte_range can reduce latency in swapoff by scanning the page table preemptibly: so long as unuse_pte is careful to recheck that entry under pte lock. (To tell the truth, this patch was not inspired by any cries for lower latency here: rather, this restructuring permits a future memory controller patch to allocate with GFP_KERNEL in unuse_pte, where before it could not. But it would be wrong to tuck this change away inside a memcgroup patch.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c38
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index f5ba723faf8..14bc4f28a8c 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -506,9 +506,19 @@ unsigned int count_swap_pages(int type, int free)
* 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 void 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 found = 1;
+
+ pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+ if (unlikely(!pte_same(*pte, swp_entry_to_pte(entry)))) {
+ found = 0;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
inc_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, anon_rss);
get_page(page);
set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,
@@ -520,6 +530,9 @@ static void unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t *pte,
* immediately swapped out again after swapon.
*/
activate_page(page);
+out:
+ pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+ return found;
}
static int unuse_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
@@ -528,22 +541,33 @@ static int unuse_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
{
pte_t swp_pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
pte_t *pte;
- spinlock_t *ptl;
int found = 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))) {
- unuse_pte(vma, pte++, addr, entry, page);
- found = 1;
- break;
+ pte_unmap(pte);
+ found = unuse_pte(vma, pmd, addr, entry, page);
+ if (found)
+ 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 found;
}