Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: workingset: restore refault tracking for single-page files

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Nov 18 2016 - 03:30:48 EST


On Thu 17-11-16 14:32:44, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Shadow entries in the page cache used to be accounted behind the radix
> tree implementation's back in the upper bits of node->count, and the
> radix tree code extending a single-entry tree with a shadow entry in
> root->rnode would corrupt that counter. As a result, we could not put
> shadow entries at index 0 if the tree didn't have any other entries,
> and that means no refault detection for any single-page file.
>
> Now that the shadow entries are tracked natively in the radix tree's
> exceptional counter, this is no longer necessary. Extending and
> shrinking the tree from and to single entries in root->rnode now does
> the right thing when the entry is exceptional, remove that limitation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> mm/filemap.c | 9 +--------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 7d92032277ff..ae7b6992aded 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -164,14 +164,7 @@ static void page_cache_tree_delete(struct address_space *mapping,
> __radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, page->index + i,
> &node, &slot);
>
> - if (!node) {
> - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(nr != 1, page);
> - /*
> - * We need a node to properly account shadow
> - * entries. Don't plant any without. XXX
> - */
> - shadow = NULL;
> - }
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!node && nr != 1, page);
>
> radix_tree_clear_tags(&mapping->page_tree, node, slot);
> __radix_tree_replace(&mapping->page_tree, node, slot, shadow,
> --
> 2.10.2
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR