Re: [PATCH] mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead

From: Tim Chen
Date: Sun Mar 19 2017 - 21:14:18 EST


On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:25:29PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> +struct page *do_swap_page_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf,
> + struct vma_swap_readahead *swap_ra,
> + swp_entry_t fentry,
> + struct page *fpage)
> +{
> + struct blk_plug plug;
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
> + struct page *page;
> + unsigned long addr;
> + pte_t *pte, pentry;
> + gfp_t gfp_mask;
> + swp_entry_t entry;
> + int i, alloc = 0, count;
> + bool page_allocated;
> +
> + addr = vmf->address & PAGE_MASK;
> + blk_start_plug(&plug);
> + if (!fpage) {
> + fpage = __read_swap_cache_async(fentry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
> + vma, addr, &page_allocated);
> + if (!fpage) {
> + blk_finish_plug(&plug);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> + if (page_allocated) {
> + alloc++;
> + swap_readpage(fpage);
> + }

Do you need to add here a put_page as there's a get_page
in __read-swap_cache_async?

put_page(fpage);

I think there is no put_page on the returned page when you return from
do_swap_page_readahead.

Thanks.

Tim

> + }
> + /* fault page has been checked */
> + count = 1;
> + addr += PAGE_SIZE * swap_ra->direction;
> + pte = swap_ra->ptes;
> + if (swap_ra->direction < 0)
> + pte += swap_ra->nr_pte - 1;