swapfile: swapon randomize if nonrot

Swap allocation has always started from the beginning of the swap area;
but if we're dealing with a solidstate swap device which can only remap
blocks within limited zones, that would sooner wear out the first zone.

Therefore sys_swapon() test whether blk_queue is non-rotational, and if so
randomize the cluster_next starting position for allocation.

If blk_queue is nonrot, note SWP_SOLIDSTATE for later use, and report it
with an "SS" at the right end of the kernel's "Adding ...  swap" message
(so that if it's both nonrot and discardable, "SSD" will be shown there).
Perhaps something should be shown in /proc/swaps (swapon -s), but we have
to be more cautious before making any addition to that format.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index ca75b9e7c09f..b0f56603b9be 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/shm.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
@@ -1806,6 +1807,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __user * specialfile, int swap_flags)
                 goto bad_swap;
         }
 
+        if (blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
+                p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE;
+                srandom32((u32)get_seconds());
+                p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit);
+        }
         if (discard_swap(p) == 0)
                 p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE;
 
@@ -1822,10 +1828,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __user * specialfile, int swap_flags)
         total_swap_pages += nr_good_pages;
 
         printk(KERN_INFO "Adding %uk swap on %s.  "
-                        "Priority:%d extents:%d across:%lluk%s\n",
+                        "Priority:%d extents:%d across:%lluk %s%s\n",
                 nr_good_pages<<(PAGE_SHIFT-10), name, p->prio,
                 nr_extents, (unsigned long long)span<<(PAGE_SHIFT-10),
-                (p->flags & SWP_DISCARDABLE) ? " D" : "");
+                (p->flags & SWP_SOLIDSTATE) ? "SS" : "",
+                (p->flags & SWP_DISCARDABLE) ? "D" : "");
 
         /* insert swap space into swap_list: */
         prev = -1;