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Huang Ying authored
One page may store a set of entries of the sis->swap_map (swap_info_struct->swap_map) in multiple swap clusters. If some of the entries has sis->swap_map[offset] > SWAP_MAP_MAX, multiple pages will be used to store the set of entries of the sis->swap_map. And the pages are linked with page->lru. This is called swap count continuation. To access the pages which store the set of entries of the sis->swap_map simultaneously, previously, sis->lock is used. But to improve the scalability of __swap_duplicate(), swap cluster lock may be used in swap_count_continued() now. This may race with add_swap_count_continuation() which operates on a nearby swap cluster, in which the sis->swap_map entries are stored in the same page. The race can cause wrong swap count in practice, thus cause unfreeable swap entries or software lockup, etc. To fix the race, a new spin lock called cont_lock is added to struct swap_info_struct to protect the swap count continuation page list. This is a lock at the swap device level, so the scalability isn't very well. But it is still much better than the original sis->lock, because it is only acquired/released when swap count continuation is used. Which is considered rare in practice. If it turns out that the scalability becomes an issue for some workloads, we can split the lock into some more fine grained locks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017081320.28133-1-ying.huang@intel.com Fixes: 235b6217 ("mm/swap: add cluster lock") Signed-off-by:
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.11+] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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