[PATCH] mm: zswap: support exclusive loads

From: Yosry Ahmed
Date: Tue May 30 2023 - 17:03:01 EST


Commit 71024cb4a0bf ("frontswap: remove frontswap_tmem_exclusive_gets")
removed support for exclusive loads from frontswap as it was not used.

Bring back exclusive loads support to frontswap by adding an
exclusive_loads argument to frontswap_ops. Add support for exclusive
loads to zswap behind CONFIG_ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS.

Refactor zswap entry invalidation in zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page()
into zswap_invalidate_entry() to reuse it in zswap_frontswap_load().

With exclusive loads, we avoid having two copies of the same page in
memory (compressed & uncompressed) after faulting it in from zswap. On
the other hand, if the page is to be reclaimed again without being
dirtied, it will be re-compressed. Compression is not usually slow, and
a page that was just faulted in is less likely to be reclaimed again
soon.

Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/frontswap.h | 1 +
mm/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
mm/frontswap.c | 7 ++++++-
mm/zswap.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/frontswap.h b/include/linux/frontswap.h
index a631bac12220..289561e12cad 100644
--- a/include/linux/frontswap.h
+++ b/include/linux/frontswap.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ struct frontswap_ops {
int (*load)(unsigned, pgoff_t, struct page *); /* load a page */
void (*invalidate_page)(unsigned, pgoff_t); /* page no longer needed */
void (*invalidate_area)(unsigned); /* swap type just swapoff'ed */
+ bool exclusive_loads; /* pages are invalidated after being loaded */
};

int frontswap_register_ops(const struct frontswap_ops *ops);
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 7672a22647b4..92c30879bf67 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ config ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel
command line 'zswap.enabled=' option.

+config ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS
+ bool "Invalidate zswap entries when pages are loaded"
+ depends on ZSWAP
+ help
+ If selected, when a page is loaded from zswap, the zswap entry is
+ invalidated at once, as opposed to leaving it in zswap until the
+ swap entry is freed.
+
+ This avoids having two copies of the same page in memory
+ (compressed and uncompressed) after faulting in a page from zswap.
+ The cost is that if the page was never dirtied and needs to be
+ swapped out again, it will be re-compressed.
+
choice
prompt "Default compressor"
depends on ZSWAP
diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
index 279e55b4ed87..e5d6825110f4 100644
--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -216,8 +216,13 @@ int __frontswap_load(struct page *page)

/* Try loading from each implementation, until one succeeds. */
ret = frontswap_ops->load(type, offset, page);
- if (ret == 0)
+ if (ret == 0) {
inc_frontswap_loads();
+ if (frontswap_ops->exclusive_loads) {
+ SetPageDirty(page);
+ __frontswap_clear(sis, offset);
+ }
+ }
return ret;
}

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index 59da2a415fbb..fba80330afd1 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1329,6 +1329,16 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
goto reject;
}

+static void zswap_invalidate_entry(struct zswap_tree *tree,
+ struct zswap_entry *entry)
+{
+ /* remove from rbtree */
+ zswap_rb_erase(&tree->rbroot, entry);
+
+ /* drop the initial reference from entry creation */
+ zswap_entry_put(tree, entry);
+}
+
/*
* returns 0 if the page was successfully decompressed
* return -1 on entry not found or error
@@ -1403,6 +1413,8 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_load(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
count_objcg_event(entry->objcg, ZSWPIN);
freeentry:
spin_lock(&tree->lock);
+ if (!ret && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS))
+ zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, entry);
zswap_entry_put(tree, entry);
spin_unlock(&tree->lock);

@@ -1423,13 +1435,7 @@ static void zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset)
spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
return;
}
-
- /* remove from rbtree */
- zswap_rb_erase(&tree->rbroot, entry);
-
- /* drop the initial reference from entry creation */
- zswap_entry_put(tree, entry);
-
+ zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, entry);
spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
}

@@ -1472,7 +1478,8 @@ static const struct frontswap_ops zswap_frontswap_ops = {
.load = zswap_frontswap_load,
.invalidate_page = zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page,
.invalidate_area = zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area,
- .init = zswap_frontswap_init
+ .init = zswap_frontswap_init,
+ .exclusive_loads = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZSWAP_EXCLUSIVE_LOADS),
};

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