[PATCH v5 07/11] mm, swap: reclaim physical slots backing cache-only vswap entries
From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-09-18 18:02:56
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Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - swap, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Chris Li, Kairui Song, Linus Torvalds
When a vswap entry's swap_count drops to 0 while its folio is still in the swap cache, the entry is cache-only and its physical slot is redundant. swap_put_entries_direct() tries to reclaim it at put time, but folio_put_swap() does not, and even the direct route can come back empty: the folio may be under the writeback that allocated the slot, its trylock may be lost, it may still be mapped, or swap_only_has_cache() may be false on a partial run. Nothing retried afterwards, so the slot stayed pinned. Reclaim such slots from the physical reclaim scanner, once swap is more than half used (vm_swap_full()), to free physical capacity for new allocations. Reclaim goes through folio_free_swap(), which ends in folio_set_dirty(), so a reclaimed slot costs a re-swapout if the folio is dropped again. Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> --- mm/swap_table.h | 12 +++-- mm/swapfile.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/vswap.h | 31 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/swap_table.h b/mm/swap_table.h
index 7d094694ec37..79f06642a553 100644
--- a/mm/swap_table.h
+++ b/mm/swap_table.h@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct swap_memcg_table { * NULL: |---------------- 0 ---------------| - Free slot * Shadow: |SWAP_COUNT|Z|---- SHADOW_VAL ---|1| - Swapped out slot * PFN: |SWAP_COUNT|Z|------ PFN -------|10| - Cached slot - * Pointer: |-------- vswap offset --------|100| - vswap rmap + * Pointer: |C|------- vswap offset -------|100| - vswap rmap * Bad: |------------- 1 -------------|1000| - Bad slot * * COUNT is `SWP_TB_COUNT_BITS` long, Z is the `SWP_TB_ZERO_FLAG` bit,
@@ -399,14 +399,18 @@ static inline unsigned short __swap_cgroup_clear(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, * On physical clusters, a Pointer-tagged entry stores the offset of the * vswap entry that owns this physical slot (the reverse map). Only the * offset is stored; the swap type is implicit (always vswap_si->type, - * since there is exactly one vswap device). + * since there is exactly one vswap device). The top bit is reserved as + * a cache-only flag, set when vswap swap_count drops to 0 but the folio + * is still in swap cache. * - * Pointer: |---- vswap offset ----|100| + * Pointer: |C|---- vswap offset ----|100| + * C = SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY (the top bit) */ #define SWP_TB_PTR_MARK_BITS 3 #define SWP_TB_PTR_MARK 0b100UL #define SWP_TB_PTR_MARK_MASK ((1UL << SWP_TB_PTR_MARK_BITS) - 1) -#define SWP_RMAP_ENTRY_MASK (~SWP_TB_PTR_MARK_MASK) +#define SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY (1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)) +#define SWP_RMAP_ENTRY_MASK (~(SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY | SWP_TB_PTR_MARK_MASK)) static inline bool swp_tb_is_pointer(unsigned long swp_tb) {
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 13d2ae60fe4c..2efb47b4cc4f 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct percpu_vswap_cluster, percpu_vswap_cluster) = { .lock = INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(), }; +static void vswap_mark_cache_only(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, + unsigned int ci_off); +static void vswap_clear_cache_only(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, + unsigned int ci_start, int nr); + /* May return NULL on invalid type, caller must check for NULL return */ static struct swap_info_struct *swap_type_to_info(int type) {
@@ -874,6 +879,55 @@ static int swap_cluster_setup_bad_slot(struct swap_info_struct *si, return ret; } +/* + * Try to reclaim a Pointer-tagged physical slot backing a vswap entry. + * The physical cluster lock must NOT be held. Returns the backing folio's + * page count, negated if the slots could not be reclaimed, or 0 if the + * folio could not be shown to own @offset (i.e. there is a race). + */ +static int try_to_reclaim_vswap_backing(struct swap_info_struct *si, + unsigned long offset, + swp_entry_t vswap_entry) +{ + swp_entry_t phys_base; + struct folio *folio; + unsigned int i; + int ret; + + folio = swap_cache_get_folio(vswap_entry); + if (!folio) + return 0; + + if (!folio_trylock(folio)) { + /* Unvalidated: the folio may not even own @offset. */ + folio_put(folio); + return 0; + } + + if (!folio_matches_swap_entry(folio, vswap_entry)) { + folio_unlock(folio); + folio_put(folio); + return 0; + } + + i = vswap_entry.val - folio->swap.val; + phys_base = vswap_to_phys(folio->swap); + if (!phys_base.val || swp_type(phys_base) != si->type || + swp_offset(phys_base) + i != offset) { + folio_unlock(folio); + folio_put(folio); + return 0; + } + + /* The run is ours: skip it all, whether or not the free succeeds. */ + ret = folio_nr_pages(folio); + if (!folio_free_swap(folio)) + ret = -ret; + folio_unlock(folio); + folio_put(folio); + return ret; +} + /* * Reclaim drops the ci lock, so the cluster may become unusable (freed or * stolen by a lower order). @usable will be set to false if that happens.
@@ -1155,6 +1209,7 @@ static void swap_reclaim_full_clusters(struct swap_info_struct *si, bool force) long to_scan = 1; unsigned long offset, end; struct swap_cluster_info *ci; + swp_entry_t vswap_entry; unsigned long swp_tb; int nr_reclaim;
@@ -1179,6 +1234,19 @@ static void swap_reclaim_full_clusters(struct swap_info_struct *si, bool force) offset += abs(nr_reclaim); continue; } + } else if (swp_tb_is_pointer(swp_tb) && + (swp_tb & SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY)) { + vswap_entry = swp_tb_ptr_to_swp_entry(swp_tb); + spin_unlock(&ci->lock); + nr_reclaim = try_to_reclaim_vswap_backing(si, offset, + vswap_entry); + ci = swap_cluster_lock(si, offset); + if (!ci) + goto next; + if (nr_reclaim) { + offset += abs(nr_reclaim); + continue; + } } offset++; }
@@ -1749,6 +1817,8 @@ static void swap_put_entries_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si, } /* count will be 0 after put, slot can be reclaimed */ need_reclaim = true; + if (swap_is_vswap(si)) + vswap_mark_cache_only(ci, ci_off); } /* * A count != 1 or cached slot can't be freed. Put its swap
@@ -1855,6 +1925,8 @@ static int swap_dup_entries_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si, goto failed; } } while (++ci_off < ci_end); + if (swap_is_vswap(si)) + vswap_clear_cache_only(ci, ci_start, nr); swap_cluster_unlock(ci); return 0; failed:
@@ -2004,6 +2076,51 @@ int folio_alloc_swap(struct folio *folio) return order ? -E2BIG : -ENOMEM; } +static void vswap_mark_cache_only(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, + unsigned int ci_off) +{ + struct swap_cluster_info_dynamic *ci_dyn; + struct swap_cluster_info *pci; + swp_entry_t phys; + unsigned long vt; + + ci_dyn = container_of(ci, struct swap_cluster_info_dynamic, ci); + vt = __vtable_get(ci_dyn, ci_off); + + if (vtable_type(vt) == VSWAP_SWAPFILE) { + phys = vtable_to_phys(vt); + pci = __swap_entry_to_cluster(phys); + swap_rmap_mark_cache_only(pci, swp_cluster_offset(phys)); + } +} + +/* + * Clear the cache-only rmap hint for entries re-referenced from count 0 to 1 + * (no longer reclaimable), so the physical reclaim scanner skips them. + */ +static void vswap_clear_cache_only(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, + unsigned int ci_start, int nr) +{ + struct swap_cluster_info_dynamic *ci_dyn; + struct swap_cluster_info *pci; + unsigned long swp_tb, vt; + swp_entry_t phys; + unsigned int off; + + ci_dyn = container_of(ci, struct swap_cluster_info_dynamic, ci); + for (off = ci_start; off < ci_start + nr; off++) { + swp_tb = __swap_table_get(ci, off); + if (!swp_tb_is_folio(swp_tb) || swp_tb_get_count(swp_tb) != 1) + continue; + vt = __vtable_get(ci_dyn, off); + if (vtable_type(vt) != VSWAP_SWAPFILE) + continue; + phys = vtable_to_phys(vt); + pci = __swap_entry_to_cluster(phys); + swap_rmap_clear_cache_only(pci, swp_cluster_offset(phys)); + } +} + static void __swap_cluster_free_phys_backing(struct swap_info_struct *psi, struct swap_cluster_info *pci, unsigned int ci_start,
diff --git a/mm/vswap.h b/mm/vswap.h
index 6f952b2591d1..b79866d5999c 100644
--- a/mm/vswap.h
+++ b/mm/vswap.h@@ -44,6 +44,37 @@ static inline bool is_vswap_entry(swp_entry_t entry) return swap_is_vswap(__swap_entry_to_info(entry)); } +/* + * Rmap cache-only helpers for physical cluster Pointer-tagged entries. + * SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY records, inline on the physical swap_table entry, + * that the backing vswap entry has swap_count == 0 (swap-cache-only, so + * reclaimable). The physical reclaim scanner reads it directly instead of + * chasing the rmap into the vswap layer and paying the cluster-lookup + * indirection. + * + * Callers hold the vswap cluster lock, not the physical one. The rmap is + * only touched while the vtable holds the slot as SWAPFILE, and that + * window is opened and closed under the vswap cluster lock, so the + * allocator has finished writing the entry by then. + */ +static inline void swap_rmap_mark_cache_only(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, + unsigned int off) +{ + atomic_long_t *table; + + table = rcu_dereference_protected(ci->table, true); + atomic_long_or(SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY, &table[off]); +} + +static inline void swap_rmap_clear_cache_only(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, + unsigned int off) +{ + atomic_long_t *table; + + table = rcu_dereference_protected(ci->table, true); + atomic_long_and(~SWP_RMAP_CACHE_ONLY, &table[off]); +} + /* * Virtual table entry encoding for vswap clusters. *
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