Re: [PATCH -mm -v2] mm, swap, frontswap: Fix THP swap if frontswap enabled

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (02/07/18 13:05), Andrew Morton wrote:
[..]
> hm.  This is assuming that "cluster==true" means "this is thp swap". 
> That's presently true, but is it appropriate that get_swap_pages() is
> peeking at "cluster" to work out why it is being called?
> 
> Or would it be cleaner to do this in get_swap_page()?  Something like
> 
> --- a/mm/swap_slots.c~a
> +++ a/mm/swap_slots.c
> @@ -317,8 +317,11 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page(struct page *p
>  	entry.val = 0;
>  
>  	if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
> -		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP))
> -			get_swap_pages(1, true, &entry);
> +		/* Frontswap doesn't support THP */
> +		if (!frontswap_enabled()) {
> +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP))
> +				get_swap_pages(1, true, &entry);
> +		}
>  		return entry;
>  	}

I have proposed exactly the same thing [1], Minchan commented that
it would introduce frontswap dependency to swap_slots.c [2]. Which
is true, but I'd still probably prefer to handle it all in
get_swap_page. Minchan, any objections?

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151791052007719&w=2
[2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151792646812617&w=2

	-ss