On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:26 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 11:57:45AM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 11:56 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote: > > > > After a page is swapped out during reclaim, __remove_mapping() will > > > > call __delete_from_swap_cache() to replace the swap cache entry with a > > > > shadow entry (which is an xa_value). > > > > > > Special entries are disjoint from shadow entries. Shadow entries have > > > the last two bits as 01 or 11 (are congruent to 1 or 3 modulo 4). > > > Special entries have values below 4096 which end in 10 (are congruent > > > to 2 modulo 4). > > > > You are implying that we would no longer have a shadow entry for such > > zero folios, because we will be storing a special entry instead. > > Right? > > umm ... maybe I have a misunderstanding here. > > I'm saying that there wouldn't be a _swap_ entry here because the folio > wouldn't be stored anywhere on the swap device. But there could be a > _shadow_ entry. Although if the page is full of zeroes, it was probably > never referenced and doesn't really need a shadow entry. Is it possible to have a shadow entry AND a special entry (e.g. XA_ZERO_ENTRY) at the same index? This is what would be required to maintain the current behavior (assuming we really need the shadow entries for such zeroed folios).
