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Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:53:18 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mm, proc: account for shmem swap in
 /proc/pid/smaps

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 03:35:49PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> +static unsigned long smaps_shmem_swap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> +	struct inode *inode;
> +	unsigned long swapped;
> +	pgoff_t start, end;
> +
> +	if (!vma->vm_file)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
> +
> +	if (!shmem_mapping(inode->i_mapping))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The easier cases are when the shmem object has nothing in swap, or
> +	 * we have the whole object mapped. Then we can simply use the stats
> +	 * that are already tracked by shmem.
> +	 */
> +	swapped = shmem_swap_usage(inode);
> +
> +	if (swapped == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start >= inode->i_size)
> +		return swapped;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Here we have to inspect individual pages in our mapped range to
> +	 * determine how much of them are swapped out. Thanks to RCU, we don't
> +	 * need i_mutex to protect against truncating or hole punching.
> +	 */

At the very least put in an assertion that we hold the RCU read lock,
otherwise RCU doesn't guarantee anything and its not obvious it is held
here.

> +	start = linear_page_index(vma, vma->vm_start);
> +	end = linear_page_index(vma, vma->vm_end);
> +
> +	return shmem_partial_swap_usage(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
> +}

> + * Determine (in bytes) how much of the whole shmem object is swapped out.
> + */
> +unsigned long shmem_swap_usage(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> +	struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
> +	unsigned long swapped;
> +
> +	/* Mostly an overkill, but it's not atomic64_t */

Yeah, that don't make any kind of sense.

> +	spin_lock(&info->lock);
> +	swapped = info->swapped;
> +	spin_unlock(&info->lock);
> +
> +	return swapped << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +}
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