From e286781d5f2e9c846e012a39653a166e9d31777d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:45:30 -0700 Subject: mm: speculative page references If we can be sure that elevating the page_count on a pagecache page will pin it, we can speculatively run this operation, and subsequently check to see if we hit the right page rather than relying on holding a lock or otherwise pinning a reference to the page. This can be done if get_page/put_page behaves consistently throughout the whole tree (ie. if we "get" the page after it has been used for something else, we must be able to free it with a put_page). Actually, there is a period where the count behaves differently: when the page is free or if it is a constituent page of a compound page. We need an atomic_inc_not_zero operation to ensure we don't try to grab the page in either case. This patch introduces the core locking protocol to the pagecache (ie. adds page_cache_get_speculative, and tweaks some update-side code to make it work). Thanks to Hugh for pointing out an improvement to the algorithm setting page_count to zero when we have control of all references, in order to hold off speculative getters. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix migration_entry_wait()] [hugh@veritas.com: fix add_to_page_cache] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair a comment] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/migrate.c') diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index d8c65a65c61d..3ca6392e82cc 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -285,7 +285,15 @@ void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd, page = migration_entry_to_page(entry); - get_page(page); + /* + * Once radix-tree replacement of page migration started, page_count + * *must* be zero. And, we don't want to call wait_on_page_locked() + * against a page without get_page(). + * So, we use get_page_unless_zero(), here. Even failed, page fault + * will occur again. + */ + if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) + goto out; pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); wait_on_page_locked(page); put_page(page); @@ -305,6 +313,7 @@ out: static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage, struct page *page) { + int expected_count; void **pslot; if (!mapping) { @@ -319,12 +328,18 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, pslot = radix_tree_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page)); - if (page_count(page) != 2 + !!PagePrivate(page) || + expected_count = 2 + !!PagePrivate(page); + if (page_count(page) != expected_count || (struct page *)radix_tree_deref_slot(pslot) != page) { write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); return -EAGAIN; } + if (!page_freeze_refs(page, expected_count)) { + write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); + return -EAGAIN; + } + /* * Now we know that no one else is looking at the page. */ @@ -338,6 +353,7 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, radix_tree_replace_slot(pslot, newpage); + page_unfreeze_refs(page, expected_count); /* * Drop cache reference from old page. * We know this isn't the last reference. -- cgit v1.2.3