From: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Subject: [PATCH 08/19] mm/shmem, swap: remove SWAP_MAP_SHMEM
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:58:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251029-swap-table-p2-v1-8-3d43f3b6ec32@tencent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251029-swap-table-p2-v1-0-3d43f3b6ec32@tencent.com>
From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
The SWAP_MAP_SHMEM state was introduced in the commit aaa468653b4a
("swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEM"), to quickly determine if a swap entry
belongs to shmem during swapoff.
However, swapoff has since been rewritten in the commit b56a2d8af914
("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity"). Now having swap count ==
SWAP_MAP_SHMEM value is basically the same as having swap count == 1,
and swap_shmem_alloc() behaves analogously to swap_duplicate(). The only
difference of note is that swap_shmem_alloc() does not check for
-ENOMEM returned from __swap_duplicate(), but it is OK because shmem
never re-duplicates any swap entry it owns. This will stil be safe if we
use (batched) swap_duplicate() instead.
This commit adds swap_duplicate_nr(), the batched variant of
swap_duplicate(), and removes the SWAP_MAP_SHMEM state and the
associated swap_shmem_alloc() helper to simplify the state machine (both
mentally and in terms of actual code). We will also have an extra
state/special value that can be repurposed (for swap entries that never
gets re-duplicated).
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 15 +++++++--------
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
mm/swapfile.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 38ca3df68716..bf72b548a96d 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ enum {
/* Special value in first swap_map */
#define SWAP_MAP_MAX 0x3e /* Max count */
#define SWAP_MAP_BAD 0x3f /* Note page is bad */
-#define SWAP_MAP_SHMEM 0xbf /* Owned by shmem/tmpfs */
/* Special value in each swap_map continuation */
#define SWAP_CONT_MAX 0x7f /* Max count */
@@ -458,8 +457,7 @@ bool folio_free_swap(struct folio *folio);
void put_swap_folio(struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t entry);
extern swp_entry_t get_swap_page_of_type(int);
extern int add_swap_count_continuation(swp_entry_t, gfp_t);
-extern void swap_shmem_alloc(swp_entry_t, int);
-extern int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t);
+extern int swap_duplicate_nr(swp_entry_t entry, int nr);
extern int swapcache_prepare(swp_entry_t entry, int nr);
extern void swap_free_nr(swp_entry_t entry, int nr_pages);
extern void free_swap_and_cache_nr(swp_entry_t entry, int nr);
@@ -514,11 +512,7 @@ static inline int add_swap_count_continuation(swp_entry_t swp, gfp_t gfp_mask)
return 0;
}
-static inline void swap_shmem_alloc(swp_entry_t swp, int nr)
-{
-}
-
-static inline int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t swp)
+static inline int swap_duplicate_nr(swp_entry_t swp, int nr_pages)
{
return 0;
}
@@ -569,6 +563,11 @@ static inline int add_swap_extent(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
+static inline int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry)
+{
+ return swap_duplicate_nr(entry, 1);
+}
+
static inline void free_swap_and_cache(swp_entry_t entry)
{
free_swap_and_cache_nr(entry, 1);
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 759981435953..46d54a1288fd 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ int shmem_writeout(struct folio *folio, struct swap_iocb **plug,
spin_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_lock);
}
- swap_shmem_alloc(folio->swap, nr_pages);
+ swap_duplicate_nr(folio->swap, nr_pages);
shmem_delete_from_page_cache(folio, swp_to_radix_entry(folio->swap));
BUG_ON(folio_mapped(folio));
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 3898c3a2be62..55362bb2a781 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static bool swap_is_last_map(struct swap_info_struct *si,
unsigned char *map_end = map + nr_pages;
unsigned char count = *map;
- if (swap_count(count) != 1 && swap_count(count) != SWAP_MAP_SHMEM)
+ if (swap_count(count) != 1)
return false;
while (++map < map_end) {
@@ -1522,12 +1522,6 @@ static unsigned char swap_entry_put_locked(struct swap_info_struct *si,
if (usage == SWAP_HAS_CACHE) {
VM_BUG_ON(!has_cache);
has_cache = 0;
- } else if (count == SWAP_MAP_SHMEM) {
- /*
- * Or we could insist on shmem.c using a special
- * swap_shmem_free() and free_shmem_swap_and_cache()...
- */
- count = 0;
} else if ((count & ~COUNT_CONTINUED) <= SWAP_MAP_MAX) {
if (count == COUNT_CONTINUED) {
if (swap_count_continued(si, offset, count))
@@ -1625,7 +1619,7 @@ static bool swap_entries_put_map(struct swap_info_struct *si,
if (nr <= 1)
goto fallback;
count = swap_count(data_race(si->swap_map[offset]));
- if (count != 1 && count != SWAP_MAP_SHMEM)
+ if (count != 1)
goto fallback;
ci = swap_cluster_lock(si, offset);
@@ -1679,12 +1673,10 @@ static bool swap_entries_put_map_nr(struct swap_info_struct *si,
/*
* Check if it's the last ref of swap entry in the freeing path.
- * Qualified value includes 1, SWAP_HAS_CACHE or SWAP_MAP_SHMEM.
*/
static inline bool __maybe_unused swap_is_last_ref(unsigned char count)
{
- return (count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE) || (count == 1) ||
- (count == SWAP_MAP_SHMEM);
+ return (count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE) || (count == 1);
}
/*
@@ -3672,7 +3664,6 @@ static int __swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry, unsigned char usage, int nr)
offset = swp_offset(entry);
VM_WARN_ON(nr > SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - offset % SWAPFILE_CLUSTER);
- VM_WARN_ON(usage == 1 && nr > 1);
ci = swap_cluster_lock(si, offset);
err = 0;
@@ -3732,27 +3723,28 @@ static int __swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry, unsigned char usage, int nr)
return err;
}
-/*
- * Help swapoff by noting that swap entry belongs to shmem/tmpfs
- * (in which case its reference count is never incremented).
- */
-void swap_shmem_alloc(swp_entry_t entry, int nr)
-{
- __swap_duplicate(entry, SWAP_MAP_SHMEM, nr);
-}
-
-/*
- * Increase reference count of swap entry by 1.
+/**
+ * swap_duplicate_nr() - Increase reference count of nr contiguous swap entries
+ * by 1.
+ *
+ * @entry: first swap entry from which we want to increase the refcount.
+ * @nr: Number of entries in range.
+ *
* Returns 0 for success, or -ENOMEM if a swap_count_continuation is required
* but could not be atomically allocated. Returns 0, just as if it succeeded,
* if __swap_duplicate() fails for another reason (-EINVAL or -ENOENT), which
* might occur if a page table entry has got corrupted.
+ *
+ * Note that we are currently not handling the case where nr > 1 and we need to
+ * add swap count continuation. This is OK, because no such user exists - shmem
+ * is the only user that can pass nr > 1, and it never re-duplicates any swap
+ * entry it owns.
*/
-int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry)
+int swap_duplicate_nr(swp_entry_t entry, int nr)
{
int err = 0;
- while (!err && __swap_duplicate(entry, 1, 1) == -ENOMEM)
+ while (!err && __swap_duplicate(entry, 1, nr) == -ENOMEM)
err = add_swap_count_continuation(entry, GFP_ATOMIC);
return err;
}
--
2.51.1
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-29 15:58 [PATCH 00/19] mm, swap: never bypass swap cache and cleanup flags (swap table phase II) Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 01/19] mm/swap: rename __read_swap_cache_async to swap_cache_alloc_folio Kairui Song
2025-10-30 22:53 ` Yosry Ahmed
[not found] ` <CAGsJ_4x1P0ypm70De7qDcDxqvY93GEPW6X2sBS_xfSUem5_S2w@mail.gmail.com>
2025-11-03 9:02 ` Kairui Song
2025-11-03 9:10 ` Barry Song
2025-11-03 16:50 ` Yosry Ahmed
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 02/19] mm, swap: split swap cache preparation loop into a standalone helper Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 03/19] mm, swap: never bypass the swap cache even for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO Kairui Song
2025-11-04 3:47 ` Barry Song
2025-11-04 10:44 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 04/19] mm, swap: always try to free swap cache for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO devices Kairui Song
2025-11-04 4:19 ` Barry Song
2025-11-04 8:26 ` Barry Song
2025-11-04 10:55 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 05/19] mm, swap: simplify the code and reduce indention Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 06/19] mm, swap: free the swap cache after folio is mapped Kairui Song
2025-11-04 9:14 ` Barry Song
2025-11-04 10:50 ` Kairui Song
2025-11-04 19:52 ` Barry Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 07/19] mm/shmem: never bypass the swap cache for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` Kairui Song [this message]
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 09/19] mm, swap: swap entry of a bad slot should not be considered as swapped out Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 10/19] mm, swap: consolidate cluster reclaim and check logic Kairui Song
2025-10-31 5:25 ` YoungJun Park
2025-10-31 7:11 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 11/19] mm, swap: split locked entry duplicating into a standalone helper Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 12/19] mm, swap: use swap cache as the swap in synchronize layer Kairui Song
2025-10-29 19:25 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 13/19] mm, swap: remove workaround for unsynchronized swap map cache state Kairui Song
2025-11-07 3:07 ` Barry Song
2025-11-09 14:18 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 14/19] mm, swap: sanitize swap entry management workflow Kairui Song
2025-10-29 19:25 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-30 5:25 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 19:25 ` kernel test robot
2025-11-01 4:51 ` YoungJun Park
2025-11-01 8:59 ` Kairui Song
2025-11-01 9:08 ` YoungJun Park
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 15/19] mm, swap: add folio to swap cache directly on allocation Kairui Song
2025-10-29 16:52 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-31 5:56 ` YoungJun Park
2025-10-31 7:02 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 16/19] mm, swap: check swap table directly for checking cache Kairui Song
2025-11-06 21:02 ` Barry Song
2025-11-07 3:13 ` Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 17/19] mm, swap: clean up and improve swap entries freeing Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 18/19] mm, swap: drop the SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag Kairui Song
2025-10-29 15:58 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm, swap: remove no longer needed _swap_info_get Kairui Song
2025-10-30 23:04 ` [PATCH 00/19] mm, swap: never bypass swap cache and cleanup flags (swap table phase II) Yosry Ahmed
2025-10-31 6:58 ` Kairui Song
2025-11-05 7:39 ` Chris Li
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