[Sorry for a really long delay]
On Wed 05-08-15 15:01:23, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Currently, /proc/pid/smaps will always show "Swap: 0 kB" for shmem-backed
> mappings, even if the mapped portion does contain pages that were swapped out.
> This is because unlike private anonymous mappings, shmem does not change pte
> to swap entry, but pte_none when swapping the page out. In the smaps page
> walk, such page thus looks like it was never faulted in.
>
> This patch changes smaps_pte_entry() to determine the swap status for such
> pte_none entries for shmem mappings, similarly to how mincore_page() does it.
> Swapped out pages are thus accounted for.
>
> The accounting is arguably still not as precise as for private anonymous
> mappings, since now we will count also pages that the process in question
> never
> accessed, but only another process populated them and then let them become
> swapped out.
>
> I believe it is still less confusing and subtle than not showing
> any swap usage by shmem mappings at all. Also, swapped out pages only becomee
> a
> performance issue for future accesses, and we cannot predict those for neither
> kind of mapping.
Yes I agree.
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
[...]
> @@ -625,6 +626,41 @@ static void show_smap_vma_flags(struct seq_file *m,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> seq_putc(m, '\n');
> }
>
> +#if defined(CONFIG_SHMEM) && defined(CONFIG_SWAP)
> +static unsigned long smaps_shmem_swap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + struct inode *inode;
> + unsigned long swapped;
> + pgoff_t start, end;
> +
> + if (!vma->vm_file)
> + return 0;
> +
> + inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
Why don't we need to take i_mutex here? What prevents from a parallel
truncate? I guess we do not care because radix_tree_for_each_slot would
cope with a truncated portion of the range, right?
It would deserve a comment I guess.
> +
> + if (!shmem_mapping(inode->i_mapping))
> + return 0;
> +
> + swapped = shmem_swap_usage(inode);
> +
> + if (swapped == 0)
> + return 0;
> +
> + if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start >= inode->i_size)
> + return swapped;
> +
> + start = linear_page_index(vma, vma->vm_start);
> + end = linear_page_index(vma, vma->vm_end);
> +
> + return shmem_partial_swap_usage(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
> +}
[...]
> +unsigned long shmem_partial_swap_usage(struct address_space *mapping,
> + pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
> +{
> + struct radix_tree_iter iter;
> + void **slot;
> + struct page *page;
> + unsigned long swapped = 0;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> +
> +restart:
> + radix_tree_for_each_slot(slot, &mapping->page_tree, &iter, start) {
> + if (iter.index >= end)
> + break;
> +
> + page = radix_tree_deref_slot(slot);
> +
> + /*
> + * This should only be possible to happen at index 0, so we
> + * don't need to reset the counter, nor do we risk infinite
> + * restarts.
> + */
> + if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
> + goto restart;
> +
> + if (radix_tree_exceptional_entry(page))
> + swapped++;
> +
> + if (need_resched()) {
> + cond_resched_rcu();
> + start = iter.index + 1;
> + goto restart;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> + return swapped << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * SysV IPC SHM_UNLOCK restore Unevictable pages to their evictable lists.
> */
> --
> 2.4.6
>
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