[PATCH 5/7] mm,ksm: swapoff might need to copy

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Thu Feb 21 2013 - 03:26:25 EST


Before establishing that KSM page migration was the cause of my
WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page))s, I suspected that they came from the
lack of a ksm_might_need_to_copy() in swapoff's unuse_pte() - which
in many respects is equivalent to faulting in a page.

In fact I've never caught that as the cause: but in theory it does
at least need the KSM_RUN_UNMERGE check in ksm_might_need_to_copy(),
to avoid bringing a KSM page back in when it's not supposed to be.

I intended to copy how it's done in do_swap_page(), but have a strong
aversion to how "swapcache" ends up being used there: rework it with
"page != swapcache".

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- mmotm.orig/mm/swapfile.c 2013-02-20 22:28:09.076001048 -0800
+++ mmotm/mm/swapfile.c 2013-02-20 23:20:50.872076192 -0800
@@ -874,11 +874,17 @@ unsigned int count_swap_pages(int type,
static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned long addr, swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
{
+ struct page *swapcache;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t *pte;
int ret = 1;

+ swapcache = page;
+ page = ksm_might_need_to_copy(page, vma, addr);
+ if (unlikely(!page))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
if (mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(vma->vm_mm, page,
GFP_KERNEL, &memcg)) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -897,7 +903,10 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_stru
get_page(page);
set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,
pte_mkold(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
- page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, addr);
+ if (page == swapcache)
+ page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, addr);
+ else /* ksm created a completely new copy */
+ page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, addr);
mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(page, memcg);
swap_free(entry);
/*
@@ -908,6 +917,10 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_stru
out:
pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
out_nolock:
+ if (page != swapcache) {
+ unlock_page(page);
+ put_page(page);
+ }
return ret;
}

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