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.
15 #include <linux/mman.h>
16 #include <linux/swap.h>
17 #include <linux/swapops.h>
18 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
19 #include <linux/security.h>
20 #include <linux/capability.h>
21 #include <linux/module.h>
22 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
23 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
24 #include <linux/frontswap.h>
25 #include <linux/swapfile.h>
28 * frontswap_ops is set by frontswap_register_ops to contain the pointers
29 * to the frontswap "backend" implementation functions.
31 static struct frontswap_ops frontswap_ops __read_mostly
;
34 * This global enablement flag reduces overhead on systems where frontswap_ops
35 * has not been registered, so is preferred to the slower alternative: a
36 * function call that checks a non-global.
38 bool frontswap_enabled __read_mostly
;
39 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_enabled
);
42 * If enabled, frontswap_store will return failure even on success. As
43 * a result, the swap subsystem will always write the page to swap, in
44 * effect converting frontswap into a writethrough cache. In this mode,
45 * there is no direct reduction in swap writes, but a frontswap backend
46 * can unilaterally "reclaim" any pages in use with no data loss, thus
47 * providing increases control over maximum memory usage due to frontswap.
49 static bool frontswap_writethrough_enabled __read_mostly
;
51 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
53 * Counters available via /sys/kernel/debug/frontswap (if debugfs is
54 * properly configured). These are for information only so are not protected
55 * against increment races.
57 static u64 frontswap_loads
;
58 static u64 frontswap_succ_stores
;
59 static u64 frontswap_failed_stores
;
60 static u64 frontswap_invalidates
;
62 static inline void inc_frontswap_loads(void) {
65 static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_stores(void) {
66 frontswap_succ_stores
++;
68 static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_stores(void) {
69 frontswap_failed_stores
++;
71 static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) {
72 frontswap_invalidates
++;
75 static inline void inc_frontswap_loads(void) { }
76 static inline void inc_frontswap_succ_stores(void) { }
77 static inline void inc_frontswap_failed_stores(void) { }
78 static inline void inc_frontswap_invalidates(void) { }
81 * Register operations for frontswap, returning previous thus allowing
82 * detection of multiple backends and possible nesting.
84 struct frontswap_ops
frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops
*ops
)
86 struct frontswap_ops old
= frontswap_ops
;
89 frontswap_enabled
= true;
92 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_register_ops
);
95 * Enable/disable frontswap writethrough (see above).
97 void frontswap_writethrough(bool enable
)
99 frontswap_writethrough_enabled
= enable
;
101 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_writethrough
);
104 * Called when a swap device is swapon'd.
106 void __frontswap_init(unsigned type
)
108 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
111 if (sis
->frontswap_map
== NULL
)
113 if (frontswap_enabled
)
114 (*frontswap_ops
.init
)(type
);
116 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_init
);
119 * "Store" data from a page to frontswap and associate it with the page's
120 * swaptype and offset. Page must be locked and in the swap cache.
121 * If frontswap already contains a page with matching swaptype and
122 * offset, the frontswap implmentation may either overwrite the data and
123 * return success or invalidate the page from frontswap and return failure.
125 int __frontswap_store(struct page
*page
)
127 int ret
= -1, dup
= 0;
128 swp_entry_t entry
= { .val
= page_private(page
), };
129 int type
= swp_type(entry
);
130 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
131 pgoff_t offset
= swp_offset(entry
);
133 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page
));
135 if (frontswap_test(sis
, offset
))
137 ret
= (*frontswap_ops
.store
)(type
, offset
, page
);
139 frontswap_set(sis
, offset
);
140 inc_frontswap_succ_stores();
142 atomic_inc(&sis
->frontswap_pages
);
145 failed dup always results in automatic invalidate of
146 the (older) page from frontswap
148 frontswap_clear(sis
, offset
);
149 atomic_dec(&sis
->frontswap_pages
);
150 inc_frontswap_failed_stores();
152 inc_frontswap_failed_stores();
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 atomic_dec(&sis
->frontswap_pages
);
195 frontswap_clear(sis
, offset
);
196 inc_frontswap_invalidates();
199 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_page
);
202 * Invalidate all data from frontswap associated with all offsets for the
203 * specified swaptype.
205 void __frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type
)
207 struct swap_info_struct
*sis
= swap_info
[type
];
210 if (sis
->frontswap_map
== NULL
)
212 (*frontswap_ops
.invalidate_area
)(type
);
213 atomic_set(&sis
->frontswap_pages
, 0);
214 memset(sis
->frontswap_map
, 0, sis
->max
/ sizeof(long));
216 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_area
);
219 * Frontswap, like a true swap device, may unnecessarily retain pages
220 * under certain circumstances; "shrink" frontswap is essentially a
221 * "partial swapoff" and works by calling try_to_unuse to attempt to
222 * unuse enough frontswap pages to attempt to -- subject to memory
223 * constraints -- reduce the number of pages in frontswap to the
224 * number given in the parameter target_pages.
226 void frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages
)
228 struct swap_info_struct
*si
= NULL
;
229 int si_frontswap_pages
;
230 unsigned long total_pages
= 0, total_pages_to_unuse
;
231 unsigned long pages
= 0, pages_to_unuse
= 0;
236 * we don't want to hold swap_lock while doing a very
237 * lengthy try_to_unuse, but swap_list may change
238 * so restart scan from swap_list.head each time
240 spin_lock(&swap_lock
);
243 for (type
= swap_list
.head
; type
>= 0; type
= si
->next
) {
244 si
= swap_info
[type
];
245 total_pages
+= atomic_read(&si
->frontswap_pages
);
247 if (total_pages
<= target_pages
)
249 total_pages_to_unuse
= total_pages
- target_pages
;
250 for (type
= swap_list
.head
; type
>= 0; type
= si
->next
) {
251 si
= swap_info
[type
];
252 si_frontswap_pages
= atomic_read(&si
->frontswap_pages
);
253 if (total_pages_to_unuse
< si_frontswap_pages
)
254 pages
= pages_to_unuse
= total_pages_to_unuse
;
256 pages
= si_frontswap_pages
;
257 pages_to_unuse
= 0; /* unuse all */
259 /* ensure there is enough RAM to fetch pages from frontswap */
260 if (security_vm_enough_memory_mm(current
->mm
, pages
))
262 vm_unacct_memory(pages
);
268 spin_unlock(&swap_lock
);
269 try_to_unuse(type
, true, pages_to_unuse
);
272 spin_unlock(&swap_lock
);
275 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_shrink
);
278 * Count and return the number of frontswap pages across all
279 * swap devices. This is exported so that backend drivers can
280 * determine current usage without reading debugfs.
282 unsigned long frontswap_curr_pages(void)
285 unsigned long totalpages
= 0;
286 struct swap_info_struct
*si
= NULL
;
288 spin_lock(&swap_lock
);
289 for (type
= swap_list
.head
; type
>= 0; type
= si
->next
) {
290 si
= swap_info
[type
];
291 totalpages
+= atomic_read(&si
->frontswap_pages
);
293 spin_unlock(&swap_lock
);
296 EXPORT_SYMBOL(frontswap_curr_pages
);
298 static int __init
init_frontswap(void)
300 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
301 struct dentry
*root
= debugfs_create_dir("frontswap", NULL
);
304 debugfs_create_u64("loads", S_IRUGO
, root
, &frontswap_loads
);
305 debugfs_create_u64("succ_stores", S_IRUGO
, root
, &frontswap_succ_stores
);
306 debugfs_create_u64("failed_stores", S_IRUGO
, root
,
307 &frontswap_failed_stores
);
308 debugfs_create_u64("invalidates", S_IRUGO
,
309 root
, &frontswap_invalidates
);
314 module_init(init_frontswap
);