4 * This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching
5 * "backend" driver implementation of frontswap. See
6 * Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt for more information.
8 * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Oracle Corp. All rights reserved.
9 * Author: Dan Magenheimer
11 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
14 #include <linux/mman.h>
15 #include <linux/swap.h>
16 #include <linux/swapops.h>
17 #include <linux/security.h>
18 #include <linux/module.h>
19 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
20 #include <linux/frontswap.h>
21 #include <linux/swapfile.h>
24 * frontswap_ops is set by frontswap_register_ops to contain the pointers
25 * to the frontswap "backend" implementation functions.
27 static struct frontswap_ops frontswap_ops __read_mostly
;
30 * This global enablement flag reduces overhead on systems where frontswap_ops
31 * has not been registered, so is preferred to the slower alternative: a
32 * function call that checks a non-global.
34 bool frontswap_enabled __read_mostly
;
35 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_enabled
);
38 * If enabled, frontswap_store will return failure even on success. As
39 * a result, the swap subsystem will always write the page to swap, in
40 * effect converting frontswap into a writethrough cache. In this mode,
41 * there is no direct reduction in swap writes, but a frontswap backend
42 * can unilaterally "reclaim" any pages in use with no data loss, thus
43 * providing increases control over maximum memory usage due to frontswap.
45 static bool frontswap_writethrough_enabled __read_mostly
;
47 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
49 * Counters available via /sys/kernel/debug/frontswap (if debugfs is
50 * properly configured). These are for information only so are not protected
51 * against increment races.
53 static u64 frontswap_loads
;
54 static u64 frontswap_succ_stores
;
55 static u64 frontswap_failed_stores
;
56 static u64 frontswap_invalidates
;
58 static inline void inc_frontswap_loads(void) {
61 static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_stores(void) {
62 frontswap_succ_stores
++;
64 static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_stores(void) {
65 frontswap_failed_stores
++;
67 static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) {
68 frontswap_invalidates
++;
71 static inline void inc_frontswap_loads(void) { }
72 static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_stores(void) { }
73 static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_stores(void) { }
74 static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) { }
77 * Register operations for frontswap, returning previous thus allowing
78 * detection of multiple backends and possible nesting.
80 struct frontswap_ops
frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops
*ops
)
82 struct frontswap_ops old
= frontswap_ops
;
85 frontswap_enabled
= true;
88 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_register_ops
);
91 * Enable/disable frontswap writethrough (see above).
93 void frontswap_writethrough(bool enable
)
95 frontswap_writethrough_enabled
= enable
;
97 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_writethrough
);
100 * Called when a swap device is swapon'd.
102 void __frontswap_init(unsigned type
)
104 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
107 if (sis
->frontswap_map
== NULL
)
109 frontswap_ops
.init(type
);
111 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_init
);
113 static inline void __frontswap_clear(struct swap_info_struct
*sis
, pgoff_t offset
)
115 frontswap_clear(sis
, offset
);
116 atomic_dec(&sis
->frontswap_pages
);
120 * "Store" data from a page to frontswap and associate it with the page's
121 * swaptype and offset. Page must be locked and in the swap cache.
122 * If frontswap already contains a page with matching swaptype and
123 * offset, the frontswap implementation may either overwrite the data and
124 * return success or invalidate the page from frontswap and return failure.
126 int __frontswap_store(struct page
*page
)
128 int ret
= -1, dup
= 0;
129 swp_entry_t entry
= { .val
= page_private(page
), };
130 int type
= swp_type(entry
);
131 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
132 pgoff_t offset
= swp_offset(entry
);
134 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
136 if (frontswap_test(sis
, offset
))
138 ret
= frontswap_ops
.store(type
, offset
, page
);
140 frontswap_set(sis
, offset
);
141 inc_frontswap_succ_stores();
143 atomic_inc(&sis
->frontswap_pages
);
146 failed dup always results in automatic invalidate of
147 the (older) page from frontswap
149 inc_frontswap_failed_stores();
151 __frontswap_clear(sis
, offset
);
153 if (frontswap_writethrough_enabled
)
154 /* report failure so swap also writes to swap device */
158 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_store
);
161 * "Get" data from frontswap associated with swaptype and offset that were
162 * specified when the data was put to frontswap and use it to fill the
163 * specified page with data. Page must be locked and in the swap cache.
165 int __frontswap_load(struct page
*page
)
168 swp_entry_t entry
= { .val
= page_private(page
), };
169 int type
= swp_type(entry
);
170 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
171 pgoff_t offset
= swp_offset(entry
);
173 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
175 if (frontswap_test(sis
, offset
))
176 ret
= frontswap_ops
.load(type
, offset
, page
);
178 inc_frontswap_loads();
181 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_load
);
184 * Invalidate any data from frontswap associated with the specified swaptype
185 * and offset so that a subsequent "get" will fail.
187 void __frontswap_invalidate_page(unsigned type
, pgoff_t offset
)
189 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
192 if (frontswap_test(sis
, offset
)) {
193 frontswap_ops
.invalidate_page(type
, offset
);
194 __frontswap_clear(sis
, offset
);
195 inc_frontswap_invalidates();
198 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_page
);
201 * Invalidate all data from frontswap associated with all offsets for the
202 * specified swaptype.
204 void __frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type
)
206 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
209 if (sis
->frontswap_map
== NULL
)
211 frontswap_ops
.invalidate_area(type
);
212 atomic_set(&sis
->frontswap_pages
, 0);
213 memset(sis
->frontswap_map
, 0, sis
->max
/ sizeof(long));
215 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_area
);
217 static unsigned long __frontswap_curr_pages(void)
220 unsigned long totalpages
= 0;
221 struct swap_info_struct
*si
= NULL
;
223 assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock
);
224 for (type
= swap_list
.head
; type
>= 0; type
= si
->next
) {
225 si
= swap_info
[type
];
226 totalpages
+= atomic_read(&si
->frontswap_pages
);
231 static int __frontswap_unuse_pages(unsigned long total
, unsigned long *unused
,
235 struct swap_info_struct
*si
= NULL
;
236 int si_frontswap_pages
;
237 unsigned long total_pages_to_unuse
= total
;
238 unsigned long pages
= 0, pages_to_unuse
= 0;
241 assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock
);
242 for (type
= swap_list
.head
; type
>= 0; type
= si
->next
) {
243 si
= swap_info
[type
];
244 si_frontswap_pages
= atomic_read(&si
->frontswap_pages
);
245 if (total_pages_to_unuse
< si_frontswap_pages
) {
246 pages
= pages_to_unuse
= total_pages_to_unuse
;
248 pages
= si_frontswap_pages
;
249 pages_to_unuse
= 0; /* unuse all */
251 /* ensure there is enough RAM to fetch pages from frontswap */
252 if (security_vm_enough_memory_mm(current
->mm
, pages
)) {
256 vm_unacct_memory(pages
);
257 *unused
= pages_to_unuse
;
266 static int __frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages
,
267 unsigned long *pages_to_unuse
,
270 unsigned long total_pages
= 0, total_pages_to_unuse
;
272 assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock
);
274 total_pages
= __frontswap_curr_pages();
275 if (total_pages
<= target_pages
) {
280 total_pages_to_unuse
= total_pages
- target_pages
;
281 return __frontswap_unuse_pages(total_pages_to_unuse
, pages_to_unuse
, type
);
285 * Frontswap, like a true swap device, may unnecessarily retain pages
286 * under certain circumstances; "shrink" frontswap is essentially a
287 * "partial swapoff" and works by calling try_to_unuse to attempt to
288 * unuse enough frontswap pages to attempt to -- subject to memory
289 * constraints -- reduce the number of pages in frontswap to the
290 * number given in the parameter target_pages.
292 void frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages
)
294 unsigned long pages_to_unuse
= 0;
298 * we don't want to hold swap_lock while doing a very
299 * lengthy try_to_unuse, but swap_list may change
300 * so restart scan from swap_list.head each time
302 spin_lock(&swap_lock
);
303 ret
= __frontswap_shrink(target_pages
, &pages_to_unuse
, &type
);
304 spin_unlock(&swap_lock
);
305 if (ret
== 0 && pages_to_unuse
)
306 try_to_unuse(type
, true, pages_to_unuse
);
309 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_shrink
);
312 * Count and return the number of frontswap pages across all
313 * swap devices. This is exported so that backend drivers can
314 * determine current usage without reading debugfs.
316 unsigned long frontswap_curr_pages(void)
318 unsigned long totalpages
= 0;
320 spin_lock(&swap_lock
);
321 totalpages
= __frontswap_curr_pages();
322 spin_unlock(&swap_lock
);
326 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_curr_pages
);
328 static int __init
init_frontswap(void)
330 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
331 struct dentry
*root
= debugfs_create_dir("frontswap", NULL
);
334 debugfs_create_u64("loads", S_IRUGO
, root
, &frontswap_loads
);
335 debugfs_create_u64("succ_stores", S_IRUGO
, root
, &frontswap_succ_stores
);
336 debugfs_create_u64("failed_stores", S_IRUGO
, root
,
337 &frontswap_failed_stores
);
338 debugfs_create_u64("invalidates", S_IRUGO
,
339 root
, &frontswap_invalidates
);
344 module_init(init_frontswap
);