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Commit 14235ab3 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: shmem: remove rare optimization when swapin races with hole punching


Commit 215c02bc ("tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON")
recognized that hole punching can race with swapin and removed the
BUG_ON() for a truncated entry from the swapin path.

The patch also added a swapcache deletion to optimize this rare case:
Since swapin has the page locked, and free_swap_and_cache() merely
trylocks, this situation can leave the page stranded in swapcache.
Usually, page reclaim picks up stale swapcache pages, and the race can
happen at any other time when the page is locked.  (The same happens for
non-shmem swapin racing with page table zapping.) The thinking here was:
we already observed the race and we have the page locked, we may as well
do the cleanup instead of waiting for reclaim.

However, this optimization complicates the next patch which moves the
cgroup charging code around.  As this is just a minor speedup for a race
condition that is so rare that it required a fuzzer to trigger the
original BUG_ON(), it's no longer worth the complications.

Suggested-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200511181056.GA339505@cmpxchg.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3fba69a5
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