Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: extract mm_prepare_for_swap_entries() helper

[Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 04:42:04AM -0700, Usama Arif wrote:
> When a swap entry is installed in a page table, the mm must be added
> to init_mm.mmlist so that swapoff can find and unuse its swap entries.
> This double-checked locking pattern is currently open-coded in
> try_to_unmap_one() and copy_nonpresent_pte().
> 
> Move it into mm_prepare_for_swap_entries() in mm/internal.h and convert
> both callers so it can be reused by upcoming PMD-level swap entry code
> paths that also need to register the mm with swapoff.
> 
> copy_nonpresent_pte() previously inserted into &src_mm->mmlist rather
> than &init_mm.mmlist, but the insertion point is irrelevant, mmlist
> is a circular list and swapoff walks it entirely from init_mm.mmlist,
> so only membership matters, not position.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
> ---
>  mm/internal.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  mm/memory.c   |  9 +--------
>  mm/rmap.c     |  7 +------
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 430aa72a4575..0360648e5726 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -1955,4 +1955,14 @@ static inline int get_sysctl_max_map_count(void)
>  bool may_expand_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, const vma_flags_t *vma_flags,
>  		   unsigned long npages);
>  
> +static inline void mm_prepare_for_swap_entries(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> +	if (list_empty(&mm->mmlist)) {
> +		spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
> +		if (list_empty(&mm->mmlist))
> +			list_add(&mm->mmlist, &init_mm.mmlist);

The patch is fine, but the name of the field is awful. Seeing mmlist I
assumed it listed all mm_structs. It has to have "swap" somewhere in the
field name.

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  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov