]> err.no Git - linux-2.6/commitdiff
mm: speculative page references
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:45:30 +0000 (19:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:00:06 +0000 (12:00 -0700)
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>
drivers/net/cassini.c
include/linux/pagemap.h
mm/filemap.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/shmem.c
mm/swap_state.c
mm/vmscan.c

index 83768df27806be9394fb087acac83ee6f87f08a0..f1936d51b458e387e3ba0ffef867f1e388bb8a90 100644 (file)
@@ -576,6 +576,18 @@ static void cas_spare_recover(struct cas *cp, const gfp_t flags)
        list_for_each_safe(elem, tmp, &list) {
                cas_page_t *page = list_entry(elem, cas_page_t, list);
 
+               /*
+                * With the lockless pagecache, cassini buffering scheme gets
+                * slightly less accurate: we might find that a page has an
+                * elevated reference count here, due to a speculative ref,
+                * and skip it as in-use. Ideally we would be able to reclaim
+                * it. However this would be such a rare case, it doesn't
+                * matter too much as we should pick it up the next time round.
+                *
+                * Importantly, if we find that the page has a refcount of 1
+                * here (our refcount), then we know it is definitely not inuse
+                * so we can reuse it.
+                */
                if (page_count(page->buffer) > 1)
                        continue;
 
index ee1ec2c7723c9505c47547b8559dbbf059bc011d..a81d818904221a30119aea1731e85512911aaf5e 100644 (file)
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/hardirq.h> /* for in_interrupt() */
 
 /*
  * Bits in mapping->flags.  The lower __GFP_BITS_SHIFT bits are the page
@@ -62,6 +63,98 @@ static inline void mapping_set_gfp_mask(struct address_space *m, gfp_t mask)
 #define page_cache_release(page)       put_page(page)
 void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, int cold);
 
+/*
+ * speculatively take a reference to a page.
+ * If the page is free (_count == 0), then _count is untouched, and 0
+ * is returned. Otherwise, _count is incremented by 1 and 1 is returned.
+ *
+ * This function must be called inside the same rcu_read_lock() section as has
+ * been used to lookup the page in the pagecache radix-tree (or page table):
+ * this allows allocators to use a synchronize_rcu() to stabilize _count.
+ *
+ * Unless an RCU grace period has passed, the count of all pages coming out
+ * of the allocator must be considered unstable. page_count may return higher
+ * than expected, and put_page must be able to do the right thing when the
+ * page has been finished with, no matter what it is subsequently allocated
+ * for (because put_page is what is used here to drop an invalid speculative
+ * reference).
+ *
+ * This is the interesting part of the lockless pagecache (and lockless
+ * get_user_pages) locking protocol, where the lookup-side (eg. find_get_page)
+ * has the following pattern:
+ * 1. find page in radix tree
+ * 2. conditionally increment refcount
+ * 3. check the page is still in pagecache (if no, goto 1)
+ *
+ * Remove-side that cares about stability of _count (eg. reclaim) has the
+ * following (with tree_lock held for write):
+ * A. atomically check refcount is correct and set it to 0 (atomic_cmpxchg)
+ * B. remove page from pagecache
+ * C. free the page
+ *
+ * There are 2 critical interleavings that matter:
+ * - 2 runs before A: in this case, A sees elevated refcount and bails out
+ * - A runs before 2: in this case, 2 sees zero refcount and retries;
+ *   subsequently, B will complete and 1 will find no page, causing the
+ *   lookup to return NULL.
+ *
+ * It is possible that between 1 and 2, the page is removed then the exact same
+ * page is inserted into the same position in pagecache. That's OK: the
+ * old find_get_page using tree_lock could equally have run before or after
+ * such a re-insertion, depending on order that locks are granted.
+ *
+ * Lookups racing against pagecache insertion isn't a big problem: either 1
+ * will find the page or it will not. Likewise, the old find_get_page could run
+ * either before the insertion or afterwards, depending on timing.
+ */
+static inline int page_cache_get_speculative(struct page *page)
+{
+       VM_BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
+
+#if !defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU)
+# ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+       VM_BUG_ON(!in_atomic());
+# endif
+       /*
+        * Preempt must be disabled here - we rely on rcu_read_lock doing
+        * this for us.
+        *
+        * Pagecache won't be truncated from interrupt context, so if we have
+        * found a page in the radix tree here, we have pinned its refcount by
+        * disabling preempt, and hence no need for the "speculative get" that
+        * SMP requires.
+        */
+       VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page) == 0);
+       atomic_inc(&page->_count);
+
+#else
+       if (unlikely(!get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
+               /*
+                * Either the page has been freed, or will be freed.
+                * In either case, retry here and the caller should
+                * do the right thing (see comments above).
+                */
+               return 0;
+       }
+#endif
+       VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
+
+       return 1;
+}
+
+static inline int page_freeze_refs(struct page *page, int count)
+{
+       return likely(atomic_cmpxchg(&page->_count, count, 0) == count);
+}
+
+static inline void page_unfreeze_refs(struct page *page, int count)
+{
+       VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page) != 0);
+       VM_BUG_ON(count == 0);
+
+       atomic_set(&page->_count, count);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 extern struct page *__page_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp);
 #else
@@ -133,13 +226,29 @@ static inline struct page *read_mapping_page(struct address_space *mapping,
        return read_cache_page(mapping, index, filler, data);
 }
 
-int add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
+int add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
                                pgoff_t index, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 int add_to_page_cache_lru(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
                                pgoff_t index, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 extern void remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page);
 extern void __remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page);
 
+/*
+ * Like add_to_page_cache_locked, but used to add newly allocated pages:
+ * the page is new, so we can just run SetPageLocked() against it.
+ */
+static inline int add_to_page_cache(struct page *page,
+               struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+       int error;
+
+       SetPageLocked(page);
+       error = add_to_page_cache_locked(page, mapping, offset, gfp_mask);
+       if (unlikely(error))
+               ClearPageLocked(page);
+       return error;
+}
+
 /*
  * Return byte-offset into filesystem object for page.
  */
index 2d3ec1ffc66e1621b3db99a4105fb92115804e82..4e182a9a14c05185043ded08a4d50137cd88a810 100644 (file)
@@ -442,39 +442,43 @@ int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 }
 
 /**
- * add_to_page_cache - add newly allocated pagecache pages
+ * add_to_page_cache_locked - add a locked page to the pagecache
  * @page:      page to add
  * @mapping:   the page's address_space
  * @offset:    page index
  * @gfp_mask:  page allocation mode
  *
- * This function is used to add newly allocated pagecache pages;
- * the page is new, so we can just run SetPageLocked() against it.
- * The other page state flags were set by rmqueue().
- *
+ * This function is used to add a page to the pagecache. It must be locked.
  * This function does not add the page to the LRU.  The caller must do that.
  */
-int add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
+int add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
                pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
-       int error = mem_cgroup_cache_charge(page, current->mm,
+       int error;
+
+       VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+
+       error = mem_cgroup_cache_charge(page, current->mm,
                                        gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
        if (error)
                goto out;
 
        error = radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
        if (error == 0) {
+               page_cache_get(page);
+               page->mapping = mapping;
+               page->index = offset;
+
                write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
                error = radix_tree_insert(&mapping->page_tree, offset, page);
-               if (!error) {
-                       page_cache_get(page);
-                       SetPageLocked(page);
-                       page->mapping = mapping;
-                       page->index = offset;
+               if (likely(!error)) {
                        mapping->nrpages++;
                        __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
-               } else
+               } else {
+                       page->mapping = NULL;
                        mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
+                       page_cache_release(page);
+               }
 
                write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
                radix_tree_preload_end();
@@ -483,7 +487,7 @@ int add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
 out:
        return error;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_to_page_cache);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_to_page_cache_locked);
 
 int add_to_page_cache_lru(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
                                pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp_mask)
index d8c65a65c61d5701b8ecbc9185ac864ef564707c..3ca6392e82cc57ccf5634fd0b27f99fd6556c9d1 100644 (file)
@@ -285,7 +285,15 @@ void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
 
        page = migration_entry_to_page(entry);
 
-       get_page(page);
+       /*
+        * Once radix-tree replacement of page migration started, page_count
+        * *must* be zero. And, we don't want to call wait_on_page_locked()
+        * against a page without get_page().
+        * So, we use get_page_unless_zero(), here. Even failed, page fault
+        * will occur again.
+        */
+       if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+               goto out;
        pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
        wait_on_page_locked(page);
        put_page(page);
@@ -305,6 +313,7 @@ out:
 static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
                struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
 {
+       int expected_count;
        void **pslot;
 
        if (!mapping) {
@@ -319,12 +328,18 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
        pslot = radix_tree_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree,
                                        page_index(page));
 
-       if (page_count(page) != 2 + !!PagePrivate(page) ||
+       expected_count = 2 + !!PagePrivate(page);
+       if (page_count(page) != expected_count ||
                        (struct page *)radix_tree_deref_slot(pslot) != page) {
                write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
                return -EAGAIN;
        }
 
+       if (!page_freeze_refs(page, expected_count)) {
+               write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+               return -EAGAIN;
+       }
+
        /*
         * Now we know that no one else is looking at the page.
         */
@@ -338,6 +353,7 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
 
        radix_tree_replace_slot(pslot, newpage);
 
+       page_unfreeze_refs(page, expected_count);
        /*
         * Drop cache reference from old page.
         * We know this isn't the last reference.
index f92fea94d037b4b469cc8e55096f0e7d5f57cbf0..1089092aecaf50ad41996ff8ac96415eb45d91fb 100644 (file)
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ found:
        spin_lock(&info->lock);
        ptr = shmem_swp_entry(info, idx, NULL);
        if (ptr && ptr->val == entry.val) {
-               error = add_to_page_cache(page, inode->i_mapping,
+               error = add_to_page_cache_locked(page, inode->i_mapping,
                                                idx, GFP_NOWAIT);
                /* does mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page on error */
        } else  /* we must compensate for our precharge above */
@@ -1301,8 +1301,8 @@ repeat:
                        SetPageUptodate(filepage);
                        set_page_dirty(filepage);
                        swap_free(swap);
-               } else if (!(error = add_to_page_cache(
-                               swappage, mapping, idx, GFP_NOWAIT))) {
+               } else if (!(error = add_to_page_cache_locked(swappage, mapping,
+                                       idx, GFP_NOWAIT))) {
                        info->flags |= SHMEM_PAGEIN;
                        shmem_swp_set(info, entry, 0);
                        shmem_swp_unmap(entry);
index d8aadaf2a0baa5e87aff579039323585add00952..3e3381d6c7eee919e209834465add2277f987d22 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
 }
index 26672c6cd3cef37bd4b8d8df8512b814957b71f3..0075eac1cd0495aceb5e57abf6adaf4749e0188c 100644 (file)
@@ -391,12 +391,10 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
 }
 
 /*
- * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping.  If it is dirty or if
- * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0.  If it was
- * successfully detached, return 1.  Assumes the caller has a single ref on
- * this page.
+ * Same as remove_mapping, but if the page is removed from the mapping, it
+ * gets returned with a refcount of 0.
  */
-int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+static int __remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
 {
        BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
        BUG_ON(mapping != page_mapping(page));
@@ -427,24 +425,24 @@ int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
         * Note that if SetPageDirty is always performed via set_page_dirty,
         * and thus under tree_lock, then this ordering is not required.
         */
-       if (unlikely(page_count(page) != 2))
+       if (!page_freeze_refs(page, 2))
                goto cannot_free;
-       smp_rmb();
-       if (unlikely(PageDirty(page)))
+       /* note: atomic_cmpxchg in page_freeze_refs provides the smp_rmb */
+       if (unlikely(PageDirty(page))) {
+               page_unfreeze_refs(page, 2);
                goto cannot_free;
+       }
 
        if (PageSwapCache(page)) {
                swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
                __delete_from_swap_cache(page);
                write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
                swap_free(swap);
-               __put_page(page);       /* The pagecache ref */
-               return 1;
+       } else {
+               __remove_from_page_cache(page);
+               write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
        }
 
-       __remove_from_page_cache(page);
-       write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
-       __put_page(page);
        return 1;
 
 cannot_free:
@@ -452,6 +450,26 @@ cannot_free:
        return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping.  If it is dirty or if
+ * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0.  If it was
+ * successfully detached, return 1.  Assumes the caller has a single ref on
+ * this page.
+ */
+int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+{
+       if (__remove_mapping(mapping, page)) {
+               /*
+                * Unfreezing the refcount with 1 rather than 2 effectively
+                * drops the pagecache ref for us without requiring another
+                * atomic operation.
+                */
+               page_unfreeze_refs(page, 1);
+               return 1;
+       }
+       return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
  */
@@ -598,18 +616,34 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
                if (PagePrivate(page)) {
                        if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
                                goto activate_locked;
-                       if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1)
-                               goto free_it;
+                       if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1) {
+                               unlock_page(page);
+                               if (put_page_testzero(page))
+                                       goto free_it;
+                               else {
+                                       /*
+                                        * rare race with speculative reference.
+                                        * the speculative reference will free
+                                        * this page shortly, so we may
+                                        * increment nr_reclaimed here (and
+                                        * leave it off the LRU).
+                                        */
+                                       nr_reclaimed++;
+                                       continue;
+                               }
+                       }
                }
 
-               if (!mapping || !remove_mapping(mapping, page))
+               if (!mapping || !__remove_mapping(mapping, page))
                        goto keep_locked;
 
-free_it:
                unlock_page(page);
+free_it:
                nr_reclaimed++;
-               if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page))
-                       __pagevec_release_nonlru(&freed_pvec);
+               if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page)) {
+                       __pagevec_free(&freed_pvec);
+                       pagevec_reinit(&freed_pvec);
+               }
                continue;
 
 activate_locked:
@@ -623,7 +657,7 @@ keep:
        }
        list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
        if (pagevec_count(&freed_pvec))
-               __pagevec_release_nonlru(&freed_pvec);
+               __pagevec_free(&freed_pvec);
        count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate);
        return nr_reclaimed;
 }