Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] mm/swap: avoid doing extra unlock error checks for direct swapin

From: Kairui Song
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 04:39:13 EST


Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> 于2024年1月4日周四 16:12写道:
>
> Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When swapping in a page, mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio is called for
> > new allocated folio, nothing else is referencing the folio so no need
> > to set the lock bit early. This avoided doing extra unlock checks
> > on the error path.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/swap_state.c | 13 ++++++-------
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> > index 24cb93ed5081..6130de8d5226 100644
> > --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> > +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> > @@ -881,16 +881,15 @@ struct folio *swapin_direct(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> > folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0,
> > vma, vmf->address, false);
> > if (folio) {
> > - __folio_set_locked(folio);
> > - __folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
> > -
> > - if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio,
> > - vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL,
> > - entry)) {
> > - folio_unlock(folio);
> > + if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio, vma->vm_mm,
> > + GFP_KERNEL, entry)) {
> > folio_put(folio);
> > return NULL;
> > }
> > +
> > + __folio_set_locked(folio);
> > + __folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
> > +
> > mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap(entry);
> >
> > shadow = get_shadow_from_swap_cache(entry);
>
> I don't find any issue with the patch. But another caller of
> mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio() in __read_swap_cache_async() setups
> newly allocated folio in the same way before the change. Better to keep
> them same? Because the benefit of change is small too.

OK, this is just a trivial optimization, I can drop it.