On 1/25/24 22:12, Alexandru Elisei wrote: > arm64 uses arch_swap_restore() to restore saved tags before the page is > swapped in and it's called in atomic context (with the ptl lock held). > > Introduce arch_swap_prepare_to_restore() that will allow an architecture to > perform extra work during swap in and outside of a critical section. > This will be used by arm64 to allocate a buffer in memory where to > temporarily save tags if tag storage is not available for the page being > swapped in. Just wondering if tag storage will always be unavailable for tagged pages being swapped in ? OR there are cases where allocation might not even be required ? This prepare phase needs to be outside the critical section - only because there might be memory allocations ?
