Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap

[Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>]

On 10/06/2024 15:06, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 02:56:09PM +0100, Usama Arif wrote:
>> I am guessing what you are suggesting is just do this?
>>
>>      if (is_folio_zero_filled(folio)) {
>>          swap_zeromap_folio_set(folio);
>>          folio_unlock(folio);
>>          return 0;
>>      }
> Right.

Thanks! Will change to this in the next revision.

>> If we have zswap enabled, the zero filled pages (infact any page that is
>> compressed), will be saved in zswap_entry and NR_WRITTEN will be wrongly
>> incremented. So the behaviour for NR_WRITTEN does not change in this patch
>> when encountering zero pages with zswap enabled (even if its wrong).
> We should fiz zswap too.
>
Will send the below diff as a separate patch for zswap:

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c index 
2cac1e11fb85..82796b9f08c7 100644 --- a/mm/page_io.c +++ b/mm/page_io.c 
@@ -281,9 +281,7 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct 
writeback_control *wbc) } swap_zeromap_folio_clear(folio); if 
(zswap_store(folio)) { - folio_start_writeback(folio); 
folio_unlock(folio); - folio_end_writeback(folio); return 0; }