[PATCH 2/2] mm: remove code to handle same filled pages

[Usama Arif]

With an earlier commit to handle zero-filled pages in swap directly,
and with only 1% of the same-filled pages being non-zero, zswap no
longer needs to handle same-filled pages and can just work on compressed
pages.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/zswap.c | 79 +++++-------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index b9b35ef86d9b..50c8d402516f 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@
 **********************************/
 /* The number of compressed pages currently stored in zswap */
 atomic_t zswap_stored_pages = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
-/* The number of same-value filled pages currently stored in zswap */
-static atomic_t zswap_same_filled_pages = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
 /*
  * The statistics below are not protected from concurrent access for
@@ -182,11 +180,9 @@ static struct shrinker *zswap_shrinker;
  *
  * swpentry - associated swap entry, the offset indexes into the red-black tree
  * length - the length in bytes of the compressed page data.  Needed during
- *          decompression. For a same value filled page length is 0, and both
- *          pool and lru are invalid and must be ignored.
+ *          decompression.
  * pool - the zswap_pool the entry's data is in
  * handle - zpool allocation handle that stores the compressed page data
- * value - value of the same-value filled pages which have same content
  * objcg - the obj_cgroup that the compressed memory is charged to
  * lru - handle to the pool's lru used to evict pages.
  */
@@ -194,10 +190,7 @@ struct zswap_entry {
 	swp_entry_t swpentry;
 	unsigned int length;
 	struct zswap_pool *pool;
-	union {
-		unsigned long handle;
-		unsigned long value;
-	};
+	unsigned long handle;
 	struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
 	struct list_head lru;
 };
@@ -814,13 +807,9 @@ static struct zpool *zswap_find_zpool(struct zswap_entry *entry)
  */
 static void zswap_entry_free(struct zswap_entry *entry)
 {
-	if (!entry->length)
-		atomic_dec(&zswap_same_filled_pages);
-	else {
-		zswap_lru_del(&zswap_list_lru, entry);
-		zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle);
-		zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
-	}
+	zswap_lru_del(&zswap_list_lru, entry);
+	zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle);
+	zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
 	if (entry->objcg) {
 		obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap(entry->objcg, entry->length);
 		obj_cgroup_put(entry->objcg);
@@ -1262,11 +1251,6 @@ static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker,
 	 * This ensures that the better zswap compresses memory, the fewer
 	 * pages we will evict to swap (as it will otherwise incur IO for
 	 * relatively small memory saving).
-	 *
-	 * The memory saving factor calculated here takes same-filled pages into
-	 * account, but those are not freeable since they almost occupy no
-	 * space. Hence, we may scale nr_freeable down a little bit more than we
-	 * should if we have a lot of same-filled pages.
 	 */
 	return mult_frac(nr_freeable, nr_backing, nr_stored);
 }
@@ -1370,42 +1354,6 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
 	} while (zswap_total_pages() > thr);
 }
 
-/*********************************
-* same-filled functions
-**********************************/
-static bool zswap_is_folio_same_filled(struct folio *folio, unsigned long *value)
-{
-	unsigned long *data;
-	unsigned long val;
-	unsigned int pos, last_pos = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*data) - 1;
-	bool ret = false;
-
-	data = kmap_local_folio(folio, 0);
-	val = data[0];
-
-	if (val != data[last_pos])
-		goto out;
-
-	for (pos = 1; pos < last_pos; pos++) {
-		if (val != data[pos])
-			goto out;
-	}
-
-	*value = val;
-	ret = true;
-out:
-	kunmap_local(data);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static void zswap_fill_folio(struct folio *folio, unsigned long value)
-{
-	unsigned long *data = kmap_local_folio(folio, 0);
-
-	memset_l(data, value, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long));
-	kunmap_local(data);
-}
-
 /*********************************
 * main API
 **********************************/
@@ -1450,13 +1398,6 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
 		goto reject;
 	}
 
-	if (zswap_is_folio_same_filled(folio, &value)) {
-		entry->length = 0;
-		entry->value = value;
-		atomic_inc(&zswap_same_filled_pages);
-		goto store_entry;
-	}
-
 	/* if entry is successfully added, it keeps the reference */
 	entry->pool = zswap_pool_current_get();
 	if (!entry->pool)
@@ -1522,13 +1463,9 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
 	return true;
 
 store_failed:
-	if (!entry->length)
-		atomic_dec(&zswap_same_filled_pages);
-	else {
-		zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle);
+	zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle);
 put_pool:
-		zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
-	}
+	zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
 freepage:
 	zswap_entry_cache_free(entry);
 reject:
@@ -1682,8 +1619,6 @@ static int zswap_debugfs_init(void)
 			    zswap_debugfs_root, NULL, &total_size_fops);
 	debugfs_create_atomic_t("stored_pages", 0444,
 				zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_stored_pages);
-	debugfs_create_atomic_t("same_filled_pages", 0444,
-				zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_same_filled_pages);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0