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Message-ID: <20130514150032.GT11497@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:32 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] make 'struct page' and swp_entry_t variants of
swapcache_free().
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 02:19:57PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
>
> swapcache_free() takes two arguments:
>
> void swapcache_free(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
>
> Most of its callers (5/7) are from error handling paths haven't even
> instantiated a page, so they pass page=NULL. Both of the callers
> that call in with a 'struct page' create and pass in a temporary
> swp_entry_t.
>
> Now that we are deferring clearing page_private() until after
> swapcache_free() has been called, we can just create a variant
> that takes a 'struct page' and does the temporary variable in
> the helper.
>
> That leaves all the other callers doing
>
> swapcache_free(entry, NULL)
>
> so create another helper for them that makes it clear that they
> need only pass in a swp_entry_t.
>
> One downside here is that delete_from_swap_cache() now does
> an extra swap_address_space() call. But, those are pretty
> cheap (just some array index arithmetic).
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>
> linux.git-davehans/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 2 +-
> linux.git-davehans/include/linux/swap.h | 3 ++-
> linux.git-davehans/mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
> linux.git-davehans/mm/swap_state.c | 13 +++++--------
> linux.git-davehans/mm/swapfile.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> linux.git-davehans/mm/vmscan.c | 3 +--
> 6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> --- linux.git/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants 2013-05-07 13:48:13.963056205 -0700
> +++ linux.git-davehans/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c 2013-05-07 13:48:13.975056737 -0700
> @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ static int zcache_get_swap_cache_page(in
> * add_to_swap_cache() doesn't return -EEXIST, so we can safely
> * clear SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag.
> */
> - swapcache_free(entry, NULL);
> + swapcache_free_entry(entry);
> /* FIXME: is it possible to get here without err==-ENOMEM?
> * If not, we can dispense with the do loop, use goto retry */
> } while (err != -ENOMEM);
> diff -puN include/linux/swap.h~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants include/linux/swap.h
> --- linux.git/include/linux/swap.h~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants 2013-05-07 13:48:13.964056249 -0700
> +++ linux.git-davehans/include/linux/swap.h 2013-05-07 13:48:13.975056737 -0700
> @@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ extern void swap_shmem_alloc(swp_entry_t
> extern int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t);
> extern int swapcache_prepare(swp_entry_t);
> extern void swap_free(swp_entry_t);
> -extern void swapcache_free(swp_entry_t, struct page *page);
> +extern void swapcache_free_entry(swp_entry_t entry);
> +extern void swapcache_free_page_entry(struct page *page);
> extern int free_swap_and_cache(swp_entry_t);
> extern int swap_type_of(dev_t, sector_t, struct block_device **);
> extern unsigned int count_swap_pages(int, int);
> diff -puN mm/shmem.c~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants mm/shmem.c
> --- linux.git/mm/shmem.c~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants 2013-05-07 13:48:13.966056339 -0700
> +++ linux.git-davehans/mm/shmem.c 2013-05-07 13:48:13.976056781 -0700
> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *
> }
>
> mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
> - swapcache_free(swap, NULL);
> + swapcache_free_entry(swap);
> redirty:
> set_page_dirty(page);
> if (wbc->for_reclaim)
> diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants mm/swapfile.c
> --- linux.git/mm/swapfile.c~make-page-and-swp_entry_t-variants 2013-05-07 13:48:13.968056427 -0700
> +++ linux.git-davehans/mm/swapfile.c 2013-05-07 13:48:13.977056825 -0700
> @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ void swap_free(swp_entry_t entry)
> /*
> * Called after dropping swapcache to decrease refcnt to swap entries.
> */
> -void swapcache_free(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
> +static void __swapcache_free(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
> {
> struct swap_info_struct *p;
> unsigned char count;
> @@ -651,6 +651,17 @@ void swapcache_free(swp_entry_t entry, s
> }
> }
>
> +void swapcache_free_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + __swapcache_free(entry, NULL);
> +}
> +
> +void swapcache_free_page_entry(struct page *page)
> +{
> + swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) };
> + __swapcache_free(entry, page);
> +}
Patch one moved the clearing of private_private and ClearPageSwapCache
from __delete_from_swap_cache to two callers. Now that you have split
the function, it would be a lot tidier if this helper looked like
void swapcache_free_page_entry(struct page *page)
{
swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) };
__swapcache_free(entry, page);
set_page_private(page, 0);
ClearPageSwapCache(page);
}
and the callers were no longer responsible again. I suspect this would
have been more obvious if patch 1 & 2 were collapsed together. Otherwise,
independent of the rest of the series, this looks like a reasonable cleanup.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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