mm: memcontrol: skip moving non-present pages that are mapped elsewhere

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Patch series "mm: push down lock_page_memcg()", v2.


This patch (of 3):

During charge moving, the pte lock and the page lock cover nearly all
cases of stabilizing page_mapped().  The only exception is when we're
looking at a non-present pte and find a page in the page cache or in the
swapcache: if the page is mapped elsewhere, it can become unmapped outside
of our control.  For this reason, rmap needs lock_page_memcg().

We don't like cgroup-specific locks in generic MM code - especially in
performance-critical MM code - and for a legacy feature that's unlikely to
have many users left - if any.

So remove the exception.  Arguably that's better semantics anyway: the
page is shared, and another process seems to be the more active user.

Once we stop moving such pages, rmap doesn't need lock_page_memcg()
anymore.  The next patch will remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206171340.139790-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206171340.139790-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Johannes Weiner 2022-12-06 18:13:39 +01:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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