mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality

This patch, 3of4, provides the core frontswap code that interfaces between
the hooks in the swap subsystem and a frontswap backend via frontswap_ops.

---
New file added: mm/frontswap.c

[v14: add support for writethrough, per suggestion by [email protected]]
[v11: [email protected]: s/puts/failed_puts/]
[v10: [email protected]: fix debugfs calls on 32-bit]
[v9: [email protected]: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 1]
[v9: [email protected]: mark some statics __read_mostly]
[v9: [email protected]: add clarifying comments]
[v9: [email protected]: no need to loop repeating try_to_unuse]
[v9: [email protected]: remove superfluous check for NULL]
[v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4]
[v8: [email protected]: add comment to clarify find_next_to_unuse]
[v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3]
[v7: [email protected]: use new static inlines, no-ops if not config'd]
[v6: rebase to 3.1-rc1]
[v6: [email protected]: use vzalloc]
[v6: [email protected]: fix null pointer deref if vzalloc fails]
[v6: [email protected]: various checks and code clarifications/comments]
[v4: rebase to 2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
[v12: Squashed s/flush/invalidate/ in]
[v15: A bit of cleanup and seperate DEBUGFS]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Wilk <[email protected]>

mm/frontswap.c

@@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
+/*
+ * Frontswap frontend
+ *
+ * This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching
+ * "backend" driver implementation of frontswap.  See
+ * Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt for more information.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Oracle Corp.  All rights reserved.
+ * Author: Dan Magenheimer
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/capability.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <linux/frontswap.h>
+#include <linux/swapfile.h>
+
+/*
+ * frontswap_ops is set by frontswap_register_ops to contain the pointers
+ * to the frontswap "backend" implementation functions.
+ */
+static struct frontswap_ops frontswap_ops __read_mostly;
+
+/*
+ * This global enablement flag reduces overhead on systems where frontswap_ops
+ * has not been registered, so is preferred to the slower alternative: a
+ * function call that checks a non-global.
+ */
+bool frontswap_enabled __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_enabled);
+
+/*
+ * If enabled, frontswap_put will return failure even on success.  As
+ * a result, the swap subsystem will always write the page to swap, in
+ * effect converting frontswap into a writethrough cache.  In this mode,
+ * there is no direct reduction in swap writes, but a frontswap backend
+ * can unilaterally "reclaim" any pages in use with no data loss, thus
+ * providing increases control over maximum memory usage due to frontswap.
+ */
+static bool frontswap_writethrough_enabled __read_mostly;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+/*
+ * Counters available via /sys/kernel/debug/frontswap (if debugfs is
+ * properly configured).  These are for information only so are not protected
+ * against increment races.
+ */
+static u64 frontswap_gets;
+static u64 frontswap_succ_puts;
+static u64 frontswap_failed_puts;
+static u64 frontswap_invalidates;
+
+static inline void inc_frontswap_gets(void) {
+	frontswap_gets++;
+}
+static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_puts(void) {
+	frontswap_succ_puts++;
+}
+static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_puts(void) {
+	frontswap_failed_puts++;
+}
+static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) {
+	frontswap_invalidates++;
+}
+#else
+static inline void inc_frontswap_gets(void) { }
+static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_puts(void) { }
+static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_puts(void) { }
+static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) { }
+#endif
+/*
+ * Register operations for frontswap, returning previous thus allowing
+ * detection of multiple backends and possible nesting.
+ */
+struct frontswap_ops frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops *ops)
+{
+	struct frontswap_ops old = frontswap_ops;
+
+	frontswap_ops = *ops;
+	frontswap_enabled = true;
+	return old;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_register_ops);
+
+/*
+ * Enable/disable frontswap writethrough (see above).
+ */
+void frontswap_writethrough(bool enable)
+{
+	frontswap_writethrough_enabled = enable;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_writethrough);
+
+/*
+ * Called when a swap device is swapon'd.
+ */
+void __frontswap_init(unsigned type)
+{
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type];
+
+	BUG_ON(sis == NULL);
+	if (sis->frontswap_map == NULL)
+		return;
+	if (frontswap_enabled)
+		(*frontswap_ops.init)(type);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_init);
+
+/*
+ * "Put" data from a page to frontswap and associate it with the page's
+ * swaptype and offset.  Page must be locked and in the swap cache.
+ * If frontswap already contains a page with matching swaptype and
+ * offset, the frontswap implmentation may either overwrite the data and
+ * return success or invalidate the page from frontswap and return failure.
+ */
+int __frontswap_put_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	int ret = -1, dup = 0;
+	swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page), };
+	int type = swp_type(entry);
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type];
+	pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(entry);
+
+	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+	BUG_ON(sis == NULL);
+	if (frontswap_test(sis, offset))
+		dup = 1;
+	ret = (*frontswap_ops.put_page)(type, offset, page);
+	if (ret == 0) {
+		frontswap_set(sis, offset);
+		inc_frontswap_succ_puts();
+		if (!dup)
+			atomic_inc(&sis->frontswap_pages);
+	} else if (dup) {
+		/*
+		  failed dup always results in automatic invalidate of
+		  the (older) page from frontswap
+		 */
+		frontswap_clear(sis, offset);
+		atomic_dec(&sis->frontswap_pages);
+		inc_frontswap_failed_puts();
+	} else
+		inc_frontswap_failed_puts();
+	if (frontswap_writethrough_enabled)
+		/* report failure so swap also writes to swap device */
+		ret = -1;
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_put_page);
+
+/*
+ * "Get" data from frontswap associated with swaptype and offset that were
+ * specified when the data was put to frontswap and use it to fill the
+ * specified page with data. Page must be locked and in the swap cache.
+ */
+int __frontswap_get_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	int ret = -1;
+	swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page), };
+	int type = swp_type(entry);
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type];
+	pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(entry);
+
+	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+	BUG_ON(sis == NULL);
+	if (frontswap_test(sis, offset))
+		ret = (*frontswap_ops.get_page)(type, offset, page);
+	if (ret == 0)
+		inc_frontswap_gets();
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_get_page);
+
+/*
+ * Invalidate any data from frontswap associated with the specified swaptype
+ * and offset so that a subsequent "get" will fail.
+ */
+void __frontswap_invalidate_page(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset)
+{
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type];
+
+	BUG_ON(sis == NULL);
+	if (frontswap_test(sis, offset)) {
+		(*frontswap_ops.invalidate_page)(type, offset);
+		atomic_dec(&sis->frontswap_pages);
+		frontswap_clear(sis, offset);
+		inc_frontswap_invalidates();
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_page);
+
+/*
+ * Invalidate all data from frontswap associated with all offsets for the
+ * specified swaptype.
+ */
+void __frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type)
+{
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = swap_info[type];
+
+	BUG_ON(sis == NULL);
+	if (sis->frontswap_map == NULL)
+		return;
+	(*frontswap_ops.invalidate_area)(type);
+	atomic_set(&sis->frontswap_pages, 0);
+	memset(sis->frontswap_map, 0, sis->max / sizeof(long));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_area);
+
+/*
+ * Frontswap, like a true swap device, may unnecessarily retain pages
+ * under certain circumstances; "shrink" frontswap is essentially a
+ * "partial swapoff" and works by calling try_to_unuse to attempt to
+ * unuse enough frontswap pages to attempt to -- subject to memory
+ * constraints -- reduce the number of pages in frontswap to the
+ * number given in the parameter target_pages.
+ */
+void frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages)
+{
+	struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL;
+	int si_frontswap_pages;
+	unsigned long total_pages = 0, total_pages_to_unuse;
+	unsigned long pages = 0, pages_to_unuse = 0;
+	int type;
+	bool locked = false;
+
+	/*
+	 * we don't want to hold swap_lock while doing a very
+	 * lengthy try_to_unuse, but swap_list may change
+	 * so restart scan from swap_list.head each time
+	 */
+	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
+	locked = true;
+	total_pages = 0;
+	for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) {
+		si = swap_info[type];
+		total_pages += atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages);
+	}
+	if (total_pages <= target_pages)
+		goto out;
+	total_pages_to_unuse = total_pages - target_pages;
+	for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) {
+		si = swap_info[type];
+		si_frontswap_pages = atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages);
+		if (total_pages_to_unuse < si_frontswap_pages)
+			pages = pages_to_unuse = total_pages_to_unuse;
+		else {
+			pages = si_frontswap_pages;
+			pages_to_unuse = 0; /* unuse all */
+		}
+		/* ensure there is enough RAM to fetch pages from frontswap */
+		if (security_vm_enough_memory_mm(current->mm, pages))
+			continue;
+		vm_unacct_memory(pages);
+		break;
+	}
+	if (type < 0)
+		goto out;
+	locked = false;
+	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+	try_to_unuse(type, true, pages_to_unuse);
+out:
+	if (locked)
+		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+	return;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_shrink);
+
+/*
+ * Count and return the number of frontswap pages across all
+ * swap devices.  This is exported so that backend drivers can
+ * determine current usage without reading debugfs.
+ */
+unsigned long frontswap_curr_pages(void)
+{
+	int type;
+	unsigned long totalpages = 0;
+	struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL;
+
+	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
+	for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) {
+		si = swap_info[type];
+		totalpages += atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages);
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+	return totalpages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_curr_pages);
+
+static int __init init_frontswap(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+	struct dentry *root = debugfs_create_dir("frontswap", NULL);
+	if (root == NULL)
+		return -ENXIO;
+	debugfs_create_u64("gets", S_IRUGO, root, &frontswap_gets);
+	debugfs_create_u64("succ_puts", S_IRUGO, root, &frontswap_succ_puts);
+	debugfs_create_u64("failed_puts", S_IRUGO, root,
+				&frontswap_failed_puts);
+	debugfs_create_u64("invalidates", S_IRUGO,
+				root, &frontswap_invalidates);
+#endif
+	return 0;
+}
+
+module_init(init_frontswap);