Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm/rmap: refactor anon swapbacked folio unmap in try_to_unmap_one
From: Dev Jain
Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 09:47:09 EST
On 07/07/26 7:56 pm, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 7/7/26 14:11, Dev Jain wrote:
>> Refactor anonymous swapbacked folio unmap to ttu_anon_swapbacked_folio().
>>
>> No functional change intended.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/rmap.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>> 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
>> index 00b571c2a1bab..ade78df5be2bd 100644
>> --- a/mm/rmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
>> @@ -2113,6 +2113,64 @@ static inline bool ttu_anon_lazyfree_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> return true;
>> }
>>
>
> BTW, no need for the "inline" for most of these functions (applies to other
> patches as well).
Okay
>
>> +static inline void set_swp_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
>> + pte_t *ptep, swp_entry_t entry, pte_t pteval, bool anon_exclusive)
>
> It's confusing that we say "set_swp_pte_at", but the pte_t we was is actually
> the old pte.
>
> Can we instead have a function that creates us a swap_pte from the other data,
> and then do the set_pte_at() in the caller?
>
> static pte_t swp_pte_prepare(...)
> {
> ...
> return swp_pte;
> }
Okay
>
>> +{
>> + pte_t swp_pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
>> +
>> + if (anon_exclusive)
>> + swp_pte = pte_swp_mkexclusive(swp_pte);
>> +
>> + if (likely(pte_present(pteval))) {
>> + if (pte_soft_dirty(pteval))
>> + swp_pte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(swp_pte);
>> + if (pte_uffd_wp(pteval))
>> + swp_pte = pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(swp_pte);
>> + } else {
>> + /* Device-exclusive entry */
>> + if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(pteval))
>> + swp_pte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(swp_pte);
>> + if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(pteval))
>> + swp_pte = pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(swp_pte);
>> + }
>> +
>> + set_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, swp_pte);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline bool ttu_anon_swapbacked_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct folio *folio,
>> + struct page *subpage, unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
>
> Subpages do not exist :)
Ack
>
>> + pte_t pteval)
>> +{
>> + bool anon_exclusive = folio_test_anon(folio) && PageAnonExclusive(subpage);
>
> const?
Okay
>
>> + swp_entry_t entry = page_swap_entry(subpage);
>> + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>> +
>> + if (folio_dup_swap(folio, subpage) < 0)
>> + return false;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * arch_unmap_one() is expected to be a NOP on
>> + * architectures where we could have PFN swap PTEs,
>> + * so we'll not check/care.
>> + */
>> + if (arch_unmap_one(mm, vma, address, pteval) < 0) {
>> + folio_put_swap(folio, subpage);
>> + return false;
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* See folio_try_share_anon_rmap(): clear PTE first. */
>> + if (anon_exclusive && folio_try_share_anon_rmap_pte(folio, subpage)) {
>> + folio_put_swap(folio, subpage);
>
> I recall I stumbled over this before, but there is no way to undo the
> arch_unmap_one(), right?
arch_unmap_one -> adi_save_tags is saving tags in an mm related structure. So
I don't think there is any need to have a reverse operation in case of
unmap failure, since the ADI tags are still there on the page.
>
>> + return false;
>> + }
>> +
>> + mm_prepare_for_swap_entries(mm);
>> + dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
>> + inc_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
>> + set_swp_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, entry, pteval, anon_exclusive);
>> + return true;
>> +}
>> +
>