[PATCH RFC 10/13] mm/swap: remove available list
From: Kairui Song via B4 Relay
Date: Mon Jul 13 2026 - 13:27:59 EST
From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Pure cleanup, no functional change.
After the priority queue replaced the allocator's device selection,
swap_avail_head and swap_avail_lock are useless now. Remove them.
__folio_throttle_swaprate() now iterates swap_active_head under
swapon_rwsem instead, the SWP_WRITEOK filtering makes it equivalent to
before.
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 1 -
mm/swapfile.c | 30 ++++--------------------------
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 6733a8979aa2..189c9898641b 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -293,7 +293,6 @@ struct swap_info_struct {
struct work_struct discard_work; /* discard worker */
struct work_struct reclaim_work; /* reclaim worker */
struct list_head discard_clusters; /* discard clusters list */
- struct plist_node avail_list; /* entry in swap_avail_head */
};
static inline swp_entry_t page_swap_entry(struct page *page)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index f6dd85968928..01240c4c9db3 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -96,21 +96,6 @@ static const char Bad_offset[] = "Bad swap offset entry ";
*/
static PLIST_HEAD(swap_active_head);
-/*
- * all available (active, not full) swap_info_structs
- * protected with swap_avail_lock, ordered by priority.
- * This is used by folio_alloc_swap() instead of swap_active_head
- * because swap_active_head includes all swap_info_structs,
- * but folio_alloc_swap() doesn't need to look at full ones.
- * This uses its own lock instead of swapon_rwsem because when a
- * swap_info_struct changes between not-full/full, it needs to
- * add/remove itself to/from this list, but the swap_info_struct->lock
- * is held and the locking order requires swapon_rwsem to be taken
- * before any swap_info_struct->lock.
- */
-static PLIST_HEAD(swap_avail_head);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_avail_lock);
-
static inline struct swap_info_struct *__swap_iter(int *i, unsigned long flag)
{
lockdep_assert_held(&swapon_rwsem);
@@ -1547,7 +1532,6 @@ static void del_from_avail_list(struct swap_info_struct *si, bool swapoff)
{
unsigned long pages;
- spin_lock(&swap_avail_lock);
spin_lock(&swap_queue_update_lock);
/*
@@ -1567,10 +1551,8 @@ static void del_from_avail_list(struct swap_info_struct *si, bool swapoff)
}
swap_queue_mask(si);
- plist_del(&si->avail_list, &swap_avail_head);
skip:
spin_unlock(&swap_queue_update_lock);
- spin_unlock(&swap_avail_lock);
}
/* SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT can only be cleared by this helper. */
@@ -1579,7 +1561,6 @@ static void add_to_avail_list(struct swap_info_struct *si)
long val;
unsigned long pages;
- spin_lock(&swap_avail_lock);
spin_lock(&swap_queue_update_lock);
/*
@@ -1610,7 +1591,6 @@ static void add_to_avail_list(struct swap_info_struct *si)
}
swap_queue_unmask(si);
- plist_add(&si->avail_list, &swap_avail_head);
skip:
spin_unlock(&swap_queue_update_lock);
}
@@ -3622,7 +3602,6 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
}
p->swap_extent_root = RB_ROOT;
plist_node_init(&p->list, 0);
- plist_node_init(&p->avail_list, 0);
p->flags = SWP_USED;
percpu_up_write(&swapon_rwsem);
if (defer) {
@@ -4030,7 +4009,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
*/
si->prio = prio;
si->list.prio = -si->prio;
- si->avail_list.prio = -si->prio;
si->swap_file = swap_file;
/* Sets SWP_WRITEOK, resurrect the percpu ref, expose the swap device */
@@ -4163,14 +4141,14 @@ void __folio_throttle_swaprate(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp)
if (current->throttle_disk)
return;
- spin_lock(&swap_avail_lock);
- plist_for_each_entry(si, &swap_avail_head, avail_list) {
- if (si->bdev) {
+ percpu_down_read(&swapon_rwsem);
+ plist_for_each_entry(si, &swap_active_head, list) {
+ if ((si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK) && si->bdev) {
blkcg_schedule_throttle(si->bdev->bd_disk, true);
break;
}
}
- spin_unlock(&swap_avail_lock);
+ percpu_up_read(&swapon_rwsem);
}
#endif
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2.55.0