mm: shmem: remove rare optimization when swapin races with hole punching
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Wed, 3 Jun 2020 23:01:34 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 03:09:47 +0000 (20:09 -0700)
commit14235ab36019d169f5eb5bf0c064c5b12ca1bf46
tree123b8f8b312d3e4c4adab0514331eaa8355ea0fa
parent3fba69a56e16e8dcf182fe6ca77735dd65a898aa
mm: shmem: remove rare optimization when swapin races with hole punching

Commit 215c02bc33bb ("tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON")
recognized that hole punching can race with swapin and removed the
BUG_ON() for a truncated entry from the swapin path.

The patch also added a swapcache deletion to optimize this rare case:
Since swapin has the page locked, and free_swap_and_cache() merely
trylocks, this situation can leave the page stranded in swapcache.
Usually, page reclaim picks up stale swapcache pages, and the race can
happen at any other time when the page is locked.  (The same happens for
non-shmem swapin racing with page table zapping.) The thinking here was:
we already observed the race and we have the page locked, we may as well
do the cleanup instead of waiting for reclaim.

However, this optimization complicates the next patch which moves the
cgroup charging code around.  As this is just a minor speedup for a race
condition that is so rare that it required a fuzzer to trigger the
original BUG_ON(), it's no longer worth the complications.

Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200511181056.GA339505@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c