mm: speculative page references

If we can be sure that elevating the page_count on a pagecache page will
pin it, we can speculatively run this operation, and subsequently check to
see if we hit the right page rather than relying on holding a lock or
otherwise pinning a reference to the page.

This can be done if get_page/put_page behaves consistently throughout the
whole tree (ie.  if we "get" the page after it has been used for something
else, we must be able to free it with a put_page).

Actually, there is a period where the count behaves differently: when the
page is free or if it is a constituent page of a compound page.  We need
an atomic_inc_not_zero operation to ensure we don't try to grab the page
in either case.

This patch introduces the core locking protocol to the pagecache (ie.
adds page_cache_get_speculative, and tweaks some update-side code to make
it work).

Thanks to Hugh for pointing out an improvement to the algorithm setting
page_count to zero when we have control of all references, in order to
hold off speculative getters.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix migration_entry_wait()]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix add_to_page_cache]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair a comment]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index d8aadaf2a0ba..3e3381d6c7ee 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ void show_swap_cache_info(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * add_to_swap_cache resembles add_to_page_cache on swapper_space,
+ * add_to_swap_cache resembles add_to_page_cache_locked on swapper_space,
  * but sets SwapCache flag and private instead of mapping and index.
  */
 int add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask)
@@ -76,19 +76,26 @@ int add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask)
         BUG_ON(PagePrivate(page));
         error = radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask);
         if (!error) {
+                page_cache_get(page);
+                SetPageSwapCache(page);
+                set_page_private(page, entry.val);
+
                 write_lock_irq(&swapper_space.tree_lock);
                 error = radix_tree_insert(&swapper_space.page_tree,
                                                 entry.val, page);
-                if (!error) {
-                        page_cache_get(page);
-                        SetPageSwapCache(page);
-                        set_page_private(page, entry.val);
+                if (likely(!error)) {
                         total_swapcache_pages++;
                         __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
                         INC_CACHE_INFO(add_total);
                 }
                 write_unlock_irq(&swapper_space.tree_lock);
                 radix_tree_preload_end();
+
+                if (unlikely(error)) {
+                        set_page_private(page, 0UL);
+                        ClearPageSwapCache(page);
+                        page_cache_release(page);
+                }
         }
         return error;
 }