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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2008-02-05 09:28:46 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 20:44:15 +0300 |
commit | 2e441889c38fe1b6ef6b963e6993076aa120176c (patch) | |
tree | f8cc99d2b8a3b90c6ff2c3e6d14e90d7edd95d7e /mm | |
parent | 8952898b0d25223f38daf46b86156fd1c4d17ad0 (diff) | |
download | linux-2e441889c38fe1b6ef6b963e6993076aa120176c.tar.xz |
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.c | 38 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index f5ba723faf81..14bc4f28a8cc 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; } |