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author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2011-08-03 16:21:19 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-08-03 14:25:22 -1000 |
commit | a2c16d6cb0e478812829ca84aeabd02e36af35eb (patch) | |
tree | 7803a522da5deee7ce753dc5404dca01f42aa176 /mm/swapfile.c | |
parent | 6328650bb4d854a7dc1498d1c0048b838b0d340c (diff) | |
download | lwn-a2c16d6cb0e478812829ca84aeabd02e36af35eb.tar.gz lwn-a2c16d6cb0e478812829ca84aeabd02e36af35eb.zip |
mm: let swap use exceptional entries
If swap entries are to be stored along with struct page pointers in a
radix tree, they need to be distinguished as exceptional entries.
Most of the handling of swap entries in radix tree will be contained in
shmem.c, but a few functions in filemap.c's common code need to check
for their appearance: find_get_page(), find_lock_page(),
find_get_pages() and find_get_pages_contig().
So as not to slow their fast paths, tuck those checks inside the
existing checks for unlikely radix_tree_deref_slot(); except for
find_lock_page(), where it is an added test. And make it a BUG in
find_get_pages_tag(), which is not applied to tmpfs files.
A part of the reason for eliminating shmem_readpage() earlier, was to
minimize the places where common code would need to allow for swap
entries.
The swp_entry_t known to swapfile.c must be massaged into a slightly
different form when stored in the radix tree, just as it gets massaged
into a pte_t when stored in page tables.
In an i386 kernel this limits its information (type and page offset) to
30 bits: given 32 "types" of swapfile and 4kB pagesize, that's a maximum
swapfile size of 128GB. Which is less than the 512GB we previously
allowed with X86_PAE (where the swap entry can occupy the entire upper
32 bits of a pte_t), but not a new limitation on 32-bit without PAE; and
there's not a new limitation on 64-bit (where swap filesize is already
limited to 16TB by a 32-bit page offset). Thirty areas of 128GB is
probably still enough swap for a 64GB 32-bit machine.
Provide swp_to_radix_entry() and radix_to_swp_entry() conversions, and
enforce filesize limit in read_swap_header(), just as for ptes.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/swapfile.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 1b8c33907242..17bc224bce68 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -1924,20 +1924,24 @@ static unsigned long read_swap_header(struct swap_info_struct *p, /* * Find out how many pages are allowed for a single swap - * device. There are two limiting factors: 1) the number of - * bits for the swap offset in the swp_entry_t type and - * 2) the number of bits in the a swap pte as defined by - * the different architectures. In order to find the - * largest possible bit mask a swap entry with swap type 0 + * device. There are three limiting factors: 1) the number + * of bits for the swap offset in the swp_entry_t type, and + * 2) the number of bits in the swap pte as defined by the + * the different architectures, and 3) the number of free bits + * in an exceptional radix_tree entry. In order to find the + * largest possible bit mask, a swap entry with swap type 0 * and swap offset ~0UL is created, encoded to a swap pte, - * decoded to a swp_entry_t again and finally the swap + * decoded to a swp_entry_t again, and finally the swap * offset is extracted. This will mask all the bits from * the initial ~0UL mask that can't be encoded in either * the swp_entry_t or the architecture definition of a - * swap pte. + * swap pte. Then the same is done for a radix_tree entry. */ maxpages = swp_offset(pte_to_swp_entry( - swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry(0, ~0UL)))) + 1; + swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry(0, ~0UL)))); + maxpages = swp_offset(radix_to_swp_entry( + swp_to_radix_entry(swp_entry(0, maxpages)))) + 1; + if (maxpages > swap_header->info.last_page) { maxpages = swap_header->info.last_page + 1; /* p->max is an unsigned int: don't overflow it */ |