mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page

remove_exclusive_swap_page(): its problem is in living up to its name.

It doesn't matter if someone else has a reference to the page (raised
page_count); it doesn't matter if the page is mapped into userspace
(raised page_mapcount - though that hints it may be worth keeping the
swap): all that matters is that there be no more references to the swap
(and no writeback in progress).

swapoff (try_to_unuse) has been removing pages from swapcache for years,
with no concern for page count or page mapcount, and we used to have a
comment in lookup_swap_cache() recognizing that: if you go for a page of
swapcache, you'll get the right page, but it could have been removed from
swapcache by the time you get page lock.

So, give up asking for exclusivity: get rid of
remove_exclusive_swap_page(), and remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref() and
remove_exclusive_swap_page_count() which were spawned for the recent LRU
work: replace them by the simpler try_to_free_swap() which just checks
page_swapcount().

Similarly, remove the page_count limitation from free_swap_and_count(),
but assume that it's worth holding on to the swap if page is mapped and
swap nowhere near full.  Add a vm_swap_full() test in free_swap_cache()?
It would be consistent, but I think we probably have enough for now.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Robin Holt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Hugh Dickins 2009-01-06 14:39:36 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit a2c43eed83
7 changed files with 22 additions and 75 deletions

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@ -454,8 +454,7 @@ void pagevec_swap_free(struct pagevec *pvec)
struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
if (PageSwapCache(page) && trylock_page(page)) {
if (PageSwapCache(page))
remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref(page);
try_to_free_swap(page);
unlock_page(page);
}
}