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SubjectRe: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c: Introduce non-atomic __{Set,Clear}PageSwapCache
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 8:31 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon 19-10-20 18:15:20, Muchun Song wrote:
> > For the exclusive reference page, the non-atomic operations is enough,
> > so replace them to non-atomic operations.
>
> I do expect you do not see any difference in runtime and this is mostly
> driven by the code reading, right? Being explicit about this in the code
> would be preferred.

Yeah, just code reading.And the set_bit and __set_bit is actually different
on some architectures. Thanks.

>
> No objection to the change.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
>
> With an improved changelog
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> > ---
> > include/linux/page-flags.h | 2 ++
> > mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> > index fbbb841a9346..ec039dde5e4b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> > @@ -401,6 +401,8 @@ static __always_inline int PageSwapCache(struct page *page)
> > }
> > SETPAGEFLAG(SwapCache, swapcache, PF_NO_TAIL)
> > CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapCache, swapcache, PF_NO_TAIL)
> > +__SETPAGEFLAG(SwapCache, swapcache, PF_NO_TAIL)
> > +__CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapCache, swapcache, PF_NO_TAIL)
> > #else
> > PAGEFLAG_FALSE(SwapCache)
> > #endif
> > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > index 2d267ef6621a..02dd62da26e0 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > @@ -3128,10 +3128,10 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > set_page_private(page, entry.val);
> >
> > /* Tell memcg to use swap ownership records */
> > - SetPageSwapCache(page);
> > + __SetPageSwapCache(page);
> > err = mem_cgroup_charge(page, vma->vm_mm,
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> > - ClearPageSwapCache(page);
> > + __ClearPageSwapCache(page);
> > if (err) {
> > ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
> > goto out_page;
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs



--
Yours,
Muchun

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