kernel_optimize_test/mm
Hugh Dickins a2c43eed83 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>
2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
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allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c mm: change dirty limit type specifiers to unsigned long 2009-01-06 15:59:02 -08:00
bootmem.c
bounce.c bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list 2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c SLUB: failslab support 2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c mm: write_cache_pages integrity fix 2009-01-06 15:58:59 -08:00
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c mm: report the MMU pagesize in /proc/pid/smaps 2009-01-06 15:58:58 -08:00
internal.h
Kconfig
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile SLUB: failslab support 2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
memcontrol.c
memory_hotplug.c mm: remove GFP_HIGHUSER_PAGECACHE 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
memory.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: add Set,ClearPageSwapCache stubs 2009-01-06 15:59:02 -08:00
mincore.c
mlock.c x86, bts: memory accounting 2008-12-20 09:15:47 +01:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: update my address 2009-01-05 17:44:42 -08:00
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm: cleanup: remove #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION 2009-01-06 15:59:00 -08:00
mremap.c mm: update my address 2009-01-05 17:44:42 -08:00
msync.c add a vfs_fsync helper 2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
nommu.c inode->i_op is never NULL 2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
oom_kill.c oom: print triggering task's cpuset and mems allowed 2009-01-06 15:58:59 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc.c: eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem 2009-01-06 15:59:02 -08:00
page_cgroup.c page_cgroup should ignore empty nodes 2008-12-10 08:01:53 -08:00
page_io.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctls 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
pagewalk.c
pdflush.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: further cleanup page_add_new_anon_rmap 2009-01-06 15:59:02 -08:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c mm: don't mark_page_accessed in shmem_fault 2009-01-06 15:58:58 -08:00
slab.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
slob.c slob: do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in kmem_cache_create() 2008-12-15 16:27:06 -08:00
slub.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c meminit section warnings 2008-11-30 10:03:35 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
swap.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c mm: vmalloc make lazy unmapping configurable 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
vmstat.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30