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mm, swap: avoid lock swap_avail_lock when held cluster lock
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Cluster lock is used to protect the swap_cluster_info and corresponding
elements in swap_info_struct->swap_map[].  But it is found that now in
scan_swap_map_slots(), swap_avail_lock may be acquired when cluster lock
is held.  This does no good except making the locking more complex and
improving the potential locking contention, because the
swap_info_struct->lock is used to protect the data structure operated in
the code already.  Fix this via moving the corresponding operations in
scan_swap_map_slots() out of cluster lock.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317064635.12792-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Huang Ying authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 3, 2017
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions mm/swapfile.c
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Expand Up @@ -672,6 +672,9 @@ static int scan_swap_map_slots(struct swap_info_struct *si,
else
goto done;
}
si->swap_map[offset] = usage;
inc_cluster_info_page(si, si->cluster_info, offset);
unlock_cluster(ci);

if (offset == si->lowest_bit)
si->lowest_bit++;
Expand All @@ -685,9 +688,6 @@ static int scan_swap_map_slots(struct swap_info_struct *si,
plist_del(&si->avail_list, &swap_avail_head);
spin_unlock(&swap_avail_lock);
}
si->swap_map[offset] = usage;
inc_cluster_info_page(si, si->cluster_info, offset);
unlock_cluster(ci);
si->cluster_next = offset + 1;
slots[n_ret++] = swp_entry(si->type, offset);

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