I dislike the way in which "swapcache" gets used in do_swap_page():
there is always a page from swapcache there (even if maybe uncached
by the time we lock it), but tests are made according to "swapcache".
Rework that with "page != swapcache", as has been done in unuse_pte().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 18 ++++++++----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- mmotm.orig/mm/memory.c 2013-02-20 22:43:47.228023344 -0800
+++ mmotm/mm/memory.c 2013-02-20 23:21:00.304076416 -0800
@@ -2954,7 +2954,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
unsigned int flags, pte_t orig_pte)
{
spinlock_t *ptl;
- struct page *page, *swapcache = NULL;
+ struct page *page, *swapcache;
swp_entry_t entry;
pte_t pte;
int locked;
@@ -3005,9 +3005,11 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
*/
ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
delayacct_clear_flag(DELAYACCT_PF_SWAPIN);
+ swapcache = page;
goto out_release;
}
+ swapcache = page;
locked = lock_page_or_retry(page, mm, flags);
delayacct_clear_flag(DELAYACCT_PF_SWAPIN);
@@ -3025,16 +3027,12 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
if (unlikely(!PageSwapCache(page) || page_private(page) != entry.val))
goto out_page;
- swapcache = page;
page = ksm_might_need_to_copy(page, vma, address);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
page = swapcache;
- swapcache = NULL;
goto out_page;
}
- if (page == swapcache)
- swapcache = NULL;
if (mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(mm, page, GFP_KERNEL, &ptr)) {
ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
@@ -3078,10 +3076,10 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
}
flush_icache_page(vma, page);
set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, pte);
- if (swapcache) /* ksm created a completely new copy */
- page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);
- else
+ if (page == swapcache)
do_page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, address, exclusive);
+ else /* ksm created a completely new copy */
+ page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);
/* It's better to call commit-charge after rmap is established */
mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(page, ptr);
@@ -3089,7 +3087,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
if (vm_swap_full() || (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || PageMlocked(page))
try_to_free_swap(page);
unlock_page(page);
- if (swapcache) {
+ if (page != swapcache) {
/*
* Hold the lock to avoid the swap entry to be reused
* until we take the PT lock for the pte_same() check
@@ -3122,7 +3120,7 @@ out_page:
unlock_page(page);
out_release:
page_cache_release(page);
- if (swapcache) {
+ if (page != swapcache) {
unlock_page(swapcache);
page_cache_release(swapcache);
}
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