mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page

remove_exclusive_swap_page(): its problem is in living up to its name.

It doesn't matter if someone else has a reference to the page (raised
page_count); it doesn't matter if the page is mapped into userspace
(raised page_mapcount - though that hints it may be worth keeping the
swap): all that matters is that there be no more references to the swap
(and no writeback in progress).

swapoff (try_to_unuse) has been removing pages from swapcache for years,
with no concern for page count or page mapcount, and we used to have a
comment in lookup_swap_cache() recognizing that: if you go for a page of
swapcache, you'll get the right page, but it could have been removed from
swapcache by the time you get page lock.

So, give up asking for exclusivity: get rid of
remove_exclusive_swap_page(), and remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref() and
remove_exclusive_swap_page_count() which were spawned for the recent LRU
work: replace them by the simpler try_to_free_swap() which just checks
page_swapcount().

Similarly, remove the page_count limitation from free_swap_and_count(),
but assume that it's worth holding on to the swap if page is mapped and
swap nowhere near full.  Add a vm_swap_full() test in free_swap_cache()?
It would be consistent, but I think we probably have enough for now.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 366556c5b148..c3ecd478840e 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -305,8 +305,7 @@ extern sector_t map_swap_page(struct swap_info_struct *, pgoff_t);
 extern sector_t swapdev_block(int, pgoff_t);
 extern struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_info_struct(unsigned);
 extern int reuse_swap_page(struct page *);
-extern int remove_exclusive_swap_page(struct page *);
-extern int remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref(struct page *);
+extern int try_to_free_swap(struct page *);
 struct backing_dev_info;
 
 /* linux/mm/thrash.c */
@@ -388,12 +387,7 @@ static inline void delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *page)
 
 #define reuse_swap_page(page)   (page_mapcount(page) == 1)
 
-static inline int remove_exclusive_swap_page(struct page *p)
-{
-        return 0;
-}
-
-static inline int remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref(struct page *page)
+static inline int try_to_free_swap(struct page *page)
 {
         return 0;
 }