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@ 2022-10-24 22:48 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2022-10-24 22:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, kasong, akpm


The patch titled
     Subject: swap: add a limit for readahead page-cluster value
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     swap-add-a-limit-for-readahead-page-cluster-value.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/swap-add-a-limit-for-readahead-page-cluster-value.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Subject: swap: add a limit for readahead page-cluster value
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:25:33 +0800

Currenty there is no upper limit for /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster, and it's a
bit shift value, so it could result in overflow of the 32-bit integer. 
Add a reasonable upper limit for it, read-in at most 2**31 pages, which is
a large enough value for readahead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221023162533.81561-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/mm.h |    1 +
 kernel/sysctl.c    |    1 +
 mm/swap.c          |    3 ++-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm.h~swap-add-a-limit-for-readahead-page-cluster-value
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static inline void totalram_pages_add(lo
 
 extern void * high_memory;
 extern int page_cluster;
+extern const int page_cluster_max;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 extern int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c~swap-add-a-limit-for-readahead-page-cluster-value
+++ a/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2125,6 +2125,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
+		.extra2		= (void *)&page_cluster_max,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "dirtytime_expire_seconds",
--- a/mm/swap.c~swap-add-a-limit-for-readahead-page-cluster-value
+++ a/mm/swap.c
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/events/pagemap.h>
 
-/* How many pages do we try to swap or page in/out together? */
+/* How many pages do we try to swap or page in/out together? As a power of 2 */
 int page_cluster;
+const int page_cluster_max = 31;
 
 /* Protecting only lru_rotate.fbatch which requires disabling interrupts */
 struct lru_rotate {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from kasong@tencent.com are

swap-add-a-limit-for-readahead-page-cluster-value.patch


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