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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2016-07-27 00:24:42 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-27 01:19:19 +0200
commit8ea1d2a1985a7ae096edf5850a31d844ad1b8e97 (patch)
tree3ec2c4dc7d51fa1f5f2797e09fd8361a8404b474 /mm/swapfile.c
parentmm,oom: remove unused argument from oom_scan_process_thread(). (diff)
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mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key
I have noticed that frontswap.h first declares "frontswap_enabled" as extern bool variable, and then overrides it with "#define frontswap_enabled (1)" for CONFIG_FRONTSWAP=Y or (0) when disabled. The bool variable isn't actually instantiated anywhere. This all looks like an unfinished attempt to make frontswap_enabled reflect whether a backend is instantiated. But in the current state, all frontswap hooks call unconditionally into frontswap.c just to check if frontswap_ops is non-NULL. This should at least be checked inline, but we can further eliminate the overhead when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is enabled and no backend registered, using a static key that is initially disabled, and gets enabled only upon first backend registration. Thus, checks for "frontswap_enabled" are replaced with "frontswap_enabled()" wrapping the static key check. There are two exceptions: - xen's selfballoon_process() was testing frontswap_enabled in code guarded by #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP, which was effectively always true when reachable. The patch just removes this check. Using frontswap_enabled() does not sound correct here, as this can be true even without xen's own backend being registered. - in SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon), change the check to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP) as it seems the bitmap allocation cannot currently be postponed until a backend is registered. This means that frontswap will still have some memory overhead by being configured, but without a backend. After the patch, we can expect that some functions in frontswap.c are called only when frontswap_ops is non-NULL. Change the checks there to VM_BUG_ONs. While at it, convert other BUG_ONs to VM_BUG_ONs as frontswap has been stable for some time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463152235-9717-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 031713ab40ce..78cfa292a29a 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2493,7 +2493,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
goto bad_swap;
}
/* frontswap enabled? set up bit-per-page map for frontswap */
- if (frontswap_enabled)
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP))
frontswap_map = vzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(maxpages) * sizeof(long));
if (p->bdev &&(swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD) && swap_discardable(p)) {