[PATCH -V3 5/5] swap: comments get_swap_device() with usage rule

Huang Ying
2023-05-29T06:14:53Z

The general rule to use a swap entry is as follows.

When we get a swap entry, if there aren't some other ways to prevent
swapoff, such as the folio in swap cache is locked, page table lock is
held, etc., the swap entry may become invalid because of swapoff.
Then, we need to enclose all swap related functions with
get_swap_device() and put_swap_device(), unless the swap functions
call get/put_swap_device() by themselves.

Add the rule as comments of get_swap_device().

Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4dbaea64635d..3d0e932497f0 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1219,6 +1219,13 @@ static unsigned char __swap_entry_free_locked(struct swap_info_struct *p,
}

/*
+ * When we get a swap entry, if there aren't some other ways to
+ * prevent swapoff, such as the folio in swap cache is locked, page
+ * table lock is held, etc., the swap entry may become invalid because
+ * of swapoff. Then, we need to enclose all swap related functions
+ * with get_swap_device() and put_swap_device(), unless the swap
+ * functions call get/put_swap_device() by themselves.
+ *
* Check whether swap entry is valid in the swap device. If so,
* return pointer to swap_info_struct, and keep the swap entry valid
* via preventing the swap device from being swapoff, until
@@ -1227,9 +1234,8 @@ static unsigned char __swap_entry_free_locked(struct swap_info_struct *p,
* Notice that swapoff or swapoff+swapon can still happen before the
* percpu_ref_tryget_live() in get_swap_device() or after the
* percpu_ref_put() in put_swap_device() if there isn't any other way
- * to prevent swapoff, such as page lock, page table lock, etc. The
- * caller must be prepared for that. For example, the following
- * situation is possible.
+ * to prevent swapoff. The caller must be prepared for that. For
+ * example, the following situation is possible.
*
* CPU1 CPU2
* do_swap_page()
--
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