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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-07-25 19:45:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 12:00:06 -0700
commita60637c85893e7191faaafa6a72e197c24386727 (patch)
treefa3ec63f505e64d3b4a2be4efd9a5314ab5f6234 /mm
parente286781d5f2e9c846e012a39653a166e9d31777d (diff)
mm: lockless pagecache
Combine page_cache_get_speculative with lockless radix tree lookups to introduce lockless page cache lookups (ie. no mapping->tree_lock on the read-side). The only atomicity changes this introduces is that the gang pagecache lookup functions now behave as if they are implemented with multiple find_get_page calls, rather than operating on a snapshot of the pages. In practice, this atomicity guarantee is not used anyway, and it is to replace individual lookups, so these semantics are natural. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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/filemap.c179
1 files changed, 134 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 4e182a9a14c..feb8448d861 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -637,15 +637,35 @@ void __lock_page_nosync(struct page *page)
* Is there a pagecache struct page at the given (mapping, offset) tuple?
* If yes, increment its refcount and return it; if no, return NULL.
*/
-struct page * find_get_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t offset)
+struct page *find_get_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t offset)
{
+ void **pagep;
struct page *page;
- read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- page = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, offset);
- if (page)
- page_cache_get(page);
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+repeat:
+ page = NULL;
+ pagep = radix_tree_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree, offset);
+ if (pagep) {
+ page = radix_tree_deref_slot(pagep);
+ if (unlikely(!page || page == RADIX_TREE_RETRY))
+ goto repeat;
+
+ if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
+ goto repeat;
+
+ /*
+ * Has the page moved?
+ * This is part of the lockless pagecache protocol. See
+ * include/linux/pagemap.h for details.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(page != *pagep)) {
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
return page;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_page);
@@ -660,32 +680,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_page);
*
* Returns zero if the page was not present. find_lock_page() may sleep.
*/
-struct page *find_lock_page(struct address_space *mapping,
- pgoff_t offset)
+struct page *find_lock_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t offset)
{
struct page *page;
repeat:
- read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- page = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, offset);
+ page = find_get_page(mapping, offset);
if (page) {
- page_cache_get(page);
- if (TestSetPageLocked(page)) {
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- __lock_page(page);
-
- /* Has the page been truncated while we slept? */
- if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
- unlock_page(page);
- page_cache_release(page);
- goto repeat;
- }
- VM_BUG_ON(page->index != offset);
- goto out;
+ lock_page(page);
+ /* Has the page been truncated? */
+ if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
+ unlock_page(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto repeat;
}
+ VM_BUG_ON(page->index != offset);
}
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
-out:
return page;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_lock_page);
@@ -751,13 +761,39 @@ unsigned find_get_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
{
unsigned int i;
unsigned int ret;
+ unsigned int nr_found;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+restart:
+ nr_found = radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree,
+ (void ***)pages, start, nr_pages);
+ ret = 0;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_found; i++) {
+ struct page *page;
+repeat:
+ page = radix_tree_deref_slot((void **)pages[i]);
+ if (unlikely(!page))
+ continue;
+ /*
+ * this can only trigger if nr_found == 1, making livelock
+ * a non issue.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(page == RADIX_TREE_RETRY))
+ goto restart;
+
+ if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
+ goto repeat;
- read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- ret = radix_tree_gang_lookup(&mapping->page_tree,
- (void **)pages, start, nr_pages);
- for (i = 0; i < ret; i++)
- page_cache_get(pages[i]);
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ /* Has the page moved? */
+ if (unlikely(page != *((void **)pages[i]))) {
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+
+ pages[ret] = page;
+ ret++;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}
@@ -778,19 +814,44 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
{
unsigned int i;
unsigned int ret;
+ unsigned int nr_found;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+restart:
+ nr_found = radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree,
+ (void ***)pages, index, nr_pages);
+ ret = 0;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_found; i++) {
+ struct page *page;
+repeat:
+ page = radix_tree_deref_slot((void **)pages[i]);
+ if (unlikely(!page))
+ continue;
+ /*
+ * this can only trigger if nr_found == 1, making livelock
+ * a non issue.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(page == RADIX_TREE_RETRY))
+ goto restart;
- read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- ret = radix_tree_gang_lookup(&mapping->page_tree,
- (void **)pages, index, nr_pages);
- for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
- if (pages[i]->mapping == NULL || pages[i]->index != index)
+ if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index)
break;
- page_cache_get(pages[i]);
+ if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
+ goto repeat;
+
+ /* Has the page moved? */
+ if (unlikely(page != *((void **)pages[i]))) {
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+
+ pages[ret] = page;
+ ret++;
index++;
}
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- return i;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_pages_contig);
@@ -810,15 +871,43 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_tag(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
{
unsigned int i;
unsigned int ret;
+ unsigned int nr_found;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+restart:
+ nr_found = radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag_slot(&mapping->page_tree,
+ (void ***)pages, *index, nr_pages, tag);
+ ret = 0;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_found; i++) {
+ struct page *page;
+repeat:
+ page = radix_tree_deref_slot((void **)pages[i]);
+ if (unlikely(!page))
+ continue;
+ /*
+ * this can only trigger if nr_found == 1, making livelock
+ * a non issue.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(page == RADIX_TREE_RETRY))
+ goto restart;
+
+ if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
+ goto repeat;
+
+ /* Has the page moved? */
+ if (unlikely(page != *((void **)pages[i]))) {
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+
+ pages[ret] = page;
+ ret++;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
- read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- ret = radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag(&mapping->page_tree,
- (void **)pages, *index, nr_pages, tag);
- for (i = 0; i < ret; i++)
- page_cache_get(pages[i]);
if (ret)
*index = pages[ret - 1]->index + 1;
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_pages_tag);