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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/frontswap.c | 314 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_io.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/swapfile.c | 54 |
5 files changed, 385 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index b2176374b98..82fed4eb2b6 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -389,3 +389,20 @@ config CLEANCACHE in a negligible performance hit. If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache + +config FRONTSWAP + bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" + depends on SWAP + default n + help + Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite + of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into + "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or + addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly + time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, + a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is + available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- + compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit + and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. + + If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile index a156285ce88..2e2fbbefb99 100644 --- a/mm/Makefile +++ b/mm/Makefile @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) += memblock.o obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE) += bounce.o obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP) += page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o +obj-$(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP) += frontswap.o obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA) += dmapool.o obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS) += hugetlb.o obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) += mempolicy.o diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e25025574a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/mm/frontswap.c @@ -0,0 +1,314 @@ +/* + * Frontswap frontend + * + * This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching + * "backend" driver implementation of frontswap. See + * Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt for more information. + * + * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Oracle Corp. All rights reserved. + * Author: Dan Magenheimer + * + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. + */ + +#include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/mman.h> +#include <linux/swap.h> +#include <linux/swapops.h> +#include <linux/proc_fs.h> +#include <linux/security.h> +#include <linux/capability.h> +#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/uaccess.h> +#include <linux/debugfs.h> +#include <linux/frontswap.h> +#include <linux/swapfile.h> + +/* + * frontswap_ops is set by frontswap_register_ops to contain the pointers + * to the frontswap "backend" implementation functions. + */ +static struct frontswap_ops frontswap_ops __read_mostly; + +/* + * This global enablement flag reduces overhead on systems where frontswap_ops + * has not been registered, so is preferred to the slower alternative: a + * function call that checks a non-global. + */ +bool frontswap_enabled __read_mostly; +EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_enabled); + +/* + * If enabled, frontswap_store will return failure even on success. As + * a result, the swap subsystem will always write the page to swap, in + * effect converting frontswap into a writethrough cache. In this mode, + * there is no direct reduction in swap writes, but a frontswap backend + * can unilaterally "reclaim" any pages in use with no data loss, thus + * providing increases control over maximum memory usage due to frontswap. + */ +static bool frontswap_writethrough_enabled __read_mostly; + +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS +/* + * Counters available via /sys/kernel/debug/frontswap (if debugfs is + * properly configured). These are for information only so are not protected + * against increment races. + */ +static u64 frontswap_loads; +static u64 frontswap_succ_stores; +static u64 frontswap_failed_stores; +static u64 frontswap_invalidates; + +static inline void inc_frontswap_loads(void) { + frontswap_loads++; +} +static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_stores(void) { + frontswap_succ_stores++; +} +static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_stores(void) { + frontswap_failed_stores++; +} +static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) { + frontswap_invalidates++; +} +#else +static inline void inc_frontswap_loads(void) { } +static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_stores(void) { } +static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_stores(void) { } +static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) { } +#endif +/* + * Register operations for frontswap, returning previous thus allowing + * detection of multiple backends and possible nesting. + */ +struct frontswap_ops frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops *ops) +{ + struct frontswap_ops old = frontswap_ops; + + frontswap_ops = *ops; + frontswap_enabled = true; + return old; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_register_ops); + +/* + * Enable/disable frontswap writethrough (see above). + */ +void frontswap_writethrough(bool enable) +{ + frontswap_writethrough_enabled = enable; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_writethrough); + +/* + * Called when a swap device is swapon'd. + */ +void __frontswap_init(unsigned type) +{ + struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type]; + + BUG_ON(sis == NULL); + if (sis->frontswap_map == NULL) + return; + if (frontswap_enabled) + (*frontswap_ops.init)(type); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_init); + +/* + * "Store" data from a page to frontswap and associate it with the page's + * swaptype and offset. Page must be locked and in the swap cache. + * If frontswap already contains a page with matching swaptype and + * offset, the frontswap implmentation may either overwrite the data and + * return success or invalidate the page from frontswap and return failure. + */ +int __frontswap_store(struct page *page) +{ + int ret = -1, dup = 0; + swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page), }; + int type = swp_type(entry); + struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type]; + pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(entry); + + BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); + BUG_ON(sis == NULL); + if (frontswap_test(sis, offset)) + dup = 1; + ret = (*frontswap_ops.store)(type, offset, page); + if (ret == 0) { + frontswap_set(sis, offset); + inc_frontswap_succ_stores(); + if (!dup) + atomic_inc(&sis->frontswap_pages); + } else if (dup) { + /* + failed dup always results in automatic invalidate of + the (older) page from frontswap + */ + frontswap_clear(sis, offset); + atomic_dec(&sis->frontswap_pages); + inc_frontswap_failed_stores(); + } else + inc_frontswap_failed_stores(); + if (frontswap_writethrough_enabled) + /* report failure so swap also writes to swap device */ + ret = -1; + return ret; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_store); + +/* + * "Get" data from frontswap associated with swaptype and offset that were + * specified when the data was put to frontswap and use it to fill the + * specified page with data. Page must be locked and in the swap cache. + */ +int __frontswap_load(struct page *page) +{ + int ret = -1; + swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page), }; + int type = swp_type(entry); + struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type]; + pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(entry); + + BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); + BUG_ON(sis == NULL); + if (frontswap_test(sis, offset)) + ret = (*frontswap_ops.load)(type, offset, page); + if (ret == 0) + inc_frontswap_loads(); + return ret; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_load); + +/* + * Invalidate any data from frontswap associated with the specified swaptype + * and offset so that a subsequent "get" will fail. + */ +void __frontswap_invalidate_page(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset) +{ + struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type]; + + BUG_ON(sis == NULL); + if (frontswap_test(sis, offset)) { + (*frontswap_ops.invalidate_page)(type, offset); + atomic_dec(&sis->frontswap_pages); + frontswap_clear(sis, offset); + inc_frontswap_invalidates(); + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_page); + +/* + * Invalidate all data from frontswap associated with all offsets for the + * specified swaptype. + */ +void __frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type) +{ + struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type]; + + BUG_ON(sis == NULL); + if (sis->frontswap_map == NULL) + return; + (*frontswap_ops.invalidate_area)(type); + atomic_set(&sis->frontswap_pages, 0); + memset(sis->frontswap_map, 0, sis->max / sizeof(long)); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_area); + +/* + * Frontswap, like a true swap device, may unnecessarily retain pages + * under certain circumstances; "shrink" frontswap is essentially a + * "partial swapoff" and works by calling try_to_unuse to attempt to + * unuse enough frontswap pages to attempt to -- subject to memory + * constraints -- reduce the number of pages in frontswap to the + * number given in the parameter target_pages. + */ +void frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages) +{ + struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL; + int si_frontswap_pages; + unsigned long total_pages = 0, total_pages_to_unuse; + unsigned long pages = 0, pages_to_unuse = 0; + int type; + bool locked = false; + + /* + * we don't want to hold swap_lock while doing a very + * lengthy try_to_unuse, but swap_list may change + * so restart scan from swap_list.head each time + */ + spin_lock(&swap_lock); + locked = true; + total_pages = 0; + for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) { + si = swap_info[type]; + total_pages += atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages); + } + if (total_pages <= target_pages) + goto out; + total_pages_to_unuse = total_pages - target_pages; + for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) { + si = swap_info[type]; + si_frontswap_pages = atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages); + if (total_pages_to_unuse < si_frontswap_pages) + pages = pages_to_unuse = total_pages_to_unuse; + else { + pages = si_frontswap_pages; + pages_to_unuse = 0; /* unuse all */ + } + /* ensure there is enough RAM to fetch pages from frontswap */ + if (security_vm_enough_memory_mm(current->mm, pages)) + continue; + vm_unacct_memory(pages); + break; + } + if (type < 0) + goto out; + locked = false; + spin_unlock(&swap_lock); + try_to_unuse(type, true, pages_to_unuse); +out: + if (locked) + spin_unlock(&swap_lock); + return; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_shrink); + +/* + * Count and return the number of frontswap pages across all + * swap devices. This is exported so that backend drivers can + * determine current usage without reading debugfs. + */ +unsigned long frontswap_curr_pages(void) +{ + int type; + unsigned long totalpages = 0; + struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL; + + spin_lock(&swap_lock); + for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) { + si = swap_info[type]; + totalpages += atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages); + } + spin_unlock(&swap_lock); + return totalpages; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_curr_pages); + +static int __init init_frontswap(void) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS + struct dentry *root = debugfs_create_dir("frontswap", NULL); + if (root == NULL) + return -ENXIO; + debugfs_create_u64("loads", S_IRUGO, root, &frontswap_loads); + debugfs_create_u64("succ_stores", S_IRUGO, root, &frontswap_succ_stores); + debugfs_create_u64("failed_stores", S_IRUGO, root, + &frontswap_failed_stores); + debugfs_create_u64("invalidates", S_IRUGO, + root, &frontswap_invalidates); +#endif + return 0; +} + +module_init(init_frontswap); diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c index dc76b4d0611..34f02923744 100644 --- a/mm/page_io.c +++ b/mm/page_io.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include <linux/bio.h> #include <linux/swapops.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> +#include <linux/frontswap.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags, @@ -98,6 +99,12 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc) unlock_page(page); goto out; } + if (frontswap_store(page) == 0) { + set_page_writeback(page); + unlock_page(page); + end_page_writeback(page); + goto out; + } bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page, end_swap_bio_write); if (bio == NULL) { set_page_dirty(page); @@ -122,6 +129,11 @@ int swap_readpage(struct page *page) VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); VM_BUG_ON(PageUptodate(page)); + if (frontswap_load(page) == 0) { + SetPageUptodate(page); + unlock_page(page); + goto out; + } bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_KERNEL, page, end_swap_bio_read); if (bio == NULL) { unlock_page(page); diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 457b10baef5..de5bc51c4a6 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ #include <linux/memcontrol.h> #include <linux/poll.h> #include <linux/oom.h> +#include <linux/frontswap.h> +#include <linux/swapfile.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> @@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ static bool swap_count_continued(struct swap_info_struct *, pgoff_t, static void free_swap_count_continuations(struct swap_info_struct *); static sector_t map_swap_entry(swp_entry_t, struct block_device**); -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_lock); +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_lock); static unsigned int nr_swapfiles; long nr_swap_pages; long total_swap_pages; @@ -53,9 +55,9 @@ static const char Unused_file[] = "Unused swap file entry "; static const char Bad_offset[] = "Bad swap offset entry "; static const char Unused_offset[] = "Unused swap offset entry "; -static struct swap_list_t swap_list = {-1, -1}; +struct swap_list_t swap_list = {-1, -1}; -static struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[MAX_SWAPFILES]; +struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[MAX_SWAPFILES]; static DEFINE_MUTEX(swapon_mutex); @@ -556,6 +558,7 @@ static unsigned char swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p, swap_list.next = p->type; nr_swap_pages++; p->inuse_pages--; + frontswap_invalidate_page(p->type, offset); if ((p->flags & SWP_BLKDEV) && disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify) disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify(p->bdev, offset); @@ -985,11 +988,12 @@ static int unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, } /* - * Scan swap_map from current position to next entry still in use. + * Scan swap_map (or frontswap_map if frontswap parameter is true) + * from current position to next entry still in use. * Recycle to start on reaching the end, returning 0 when empty. */ static unsigned int find_next_to_unuse(struct swap_info_struct *si, - unsigned int prev) + unsigned int prev, bool frontswap) { unsigned int max = si->max; unsigned int i = prev; @@ -1015,6 +1019,12 @@ static unsigned int find_next_to_unuse(struct swap_info_struct *si, prev = 0; i = 1; } + if (frontswap) { + if (frontswap_test(si, i)) + break; + else + continue; + } count = si->swap_map[i]; if (count && swap_count(count) != SWAP_MAP_BAD) break; @@ -1026,8 +1036,12 @@ static unsigned int find_next_to_unuse(struct swap_info_struct *si, * We completely avoid races by reading each swap page in advance, * and then search for the process using it. All the necessary * page table adjustments can then be made atomically. + * + * if the boolean frontswap is true, only unuse pages_to_unuse pages; + * pages_to_unuse==0 means all pages; ignored if frontswap is false */ -static int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type) +int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type, bool frontswap, + unsigned long pages_to_unuse) { struct swap_info_struct *si = swap_info[type]; struct mm_struct *start_mm; @@ -1060,7 +1074,7 @@ static int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type) * one pass through swap_map is enough, but not necessarily: * there are races when an instance of an entry might be missed. */ - while ((i = find_next_to_unuse(si, i)) != 0) { + while ((i = find_next_to_unuse(si, i, frontswap)) != 0) { if (signal_pending(current)) { retval = -EINTR; break; @@ -1227,6 +1241,10 @@ static int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type) * interactive performance. */ cond_resched(); + if (frontswap && pages_to_unuse > 0) { + if (!--pages_to_unuse) + break; + } } mmput(start_mm); @@ -1486,7 +1504,8 @@ bad_bmap: } static void enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio, - unsigned char *swap_map) + unsigned char *swap_map, + unsigned long *frontswap_map) { int i, prev; @@ -1496,6 +1515,7 @@ static void enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio, else p->prio = --least_priority; p->swap_map = swap_map; + frontswap_map_set(p, frontswap_map); p->flags |= SWP_WRITEOK; nr_swap_pages += p->pages; total_swap_pages += p->pages; @@ -1512,6 +1532,7 @@ static void enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio, swap_list.head = swap_list.next = p->type; else swap_info[prev]->next = p->type; + frontswap_init(p->type); spin_unlock(&swap_lock); } @@ -1585,7 +1606,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile) spin_unlock(&swap_lock); oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX); - err = try_to_unuse(type); + err = try_to_unuse(type, false, 0); /* force all pages to be unused */ compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj); if (err) { @@ -1596,7 +1617,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile) * sys_swapoff for this swap_info_struct at this point. */ /* re-insert swap space back into swap_list */ - enable_swap_info(p, p->prio, p->swap_map); + enable_swap_info(p, p->prio, p->swap_map, frontswap_map_get(p)); goto out_dput; } @@ -1622,9 +1643,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile) swap_map = p->swap_map; p->swap_map = NULL; p->flags = 0; + frontswap_invalidate_area(type); spin_unlock(&swap_lock); mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex); vfree(swap_map); + vfree(frontswap_map_get(p)); /* Destroy swap account informatin */ swap_cgroup_swapoff(type); @@ -1988,6 +2011,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) sector_t span; unsigned long maxpages; unsigned char *swap_map = NULL; + unsigned long *frontswap_map = NULL; struct page *page = NULL; struct inode *inode = NULL; @@ -2071,6 +2095,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) error = nr_extents; goto bad_swap; } + /* frontswap enabled? set up bit-per-page map for frontswap */ + if (frontswap_enabled) + frontswap_map = vzalloc(maxpages / sizeof(long)); if (p->bdev) { if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) { @@ -2086,14 +2113,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) if (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_PREFER) prio = (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_MASK) >> SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_SHIFT; - enable_swap_info(p, prio, swap_map); + enable_swap_info(p, prio, swap_map, frontswap_map); printk(KERN_INFO "Adding %uk swap on %s. " - "Priority:%d extents:%d across:%lluk %s%s\n", + "Priority:%d extents:%d across:%lluk %s%s%s\n", p->pages<<(PAGE_SHIFT-10), name, p->prio, nr_extents, (unsigned long long)span<<(PAGE_SHIFT-10), (p->flags & SWP_SOLIDSTATE) ? "SS" : "", - (p->flags & SWP_DISCARDABLE) ? "D" : ""); + (p->flags & SWP_DISCARDABLE) ? "D" : "", + (frontswap_map) ? "FS" : ""); mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex); atomic_inc(&proc_poll_event); |