From e286781d5f2e9c846e012a39653a166e9d31777d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:45:30 -0700 Subject: mm: speculative page references If we can be sure that elevating the page_count on a pagecache page will pin it, we can speculatively run this operation, and subsequently check to see if we hit the right page rather than relying on holding a lock or otherwise pinning a reference to the page. This can be done if get_page/put_page behaves consistently throughout the whole tree (ie. if we "get" the page after it has been used for something else, we must be able to free it with a put_page). Actually, there is a period where the count behaves differently: when the page is free or if it is a constituent page of a compound page. We need an atomic_inc_not_zero operation to ensure we don't try to grab the page in either case. This patch introduces the core locking protocol to the pagecache (ie. adds page_cache_get_speculative, and tweaks some update-side code to make it work). Thanks to Hugh for pointing out an improvement to the algorithm setting page_count to zero when we have control of all references, in order to hold off speculative getters. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix migration_entry_wait()] [hugh@veritas.com: fix add_to_page_cache] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair a comment] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/swap_state.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/swap_state.c') diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index d8aadaf2a0ba..3e3381d6c7ee 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ void show_swap_cache_info(void) } /* - * add_to_swap_cache resembles add_to_page_cache on swapper_space, + * add_to_swap_cache resembles add_to_page_cache_locked on swapper_space, * but sets SwapCache flag and private instead of mapping and index. */ int add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask) @@ -76,19 +76,26 @@ int add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask) BUG_ON(PagePrivate(page)); error = radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask); if (!error) { + page_cache_get(page); + SetPageSwapCache(page); + set_page_private(page, entry.val); + write_lock_irq(&swapper_space.tree_lock); error = radix_tree_insert(&swapper_space.page_tree, entry.val, page); - if (!error) { - page_cache_get(page); - SetPageSwapCache(page); - set_page_private(page, entry.val); + if (likely(!error)) { total_swapcache_pages++; __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES); INC_CACHE_INFO(add_total); } write_unlock_irq(&swapper_space.tree_lock); radix_tree_preload_end(); + + if (unlikely(error)) { + set_page_private(page, 0UL); + ClearPageSwapCache(page); + page_cache_release(page); + } } return error; } -- cgit v1.2.3