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author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2016-07-26 15:24:42 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -0700 |
commit | 8ea1d2a1985a7ae096edf5850a31d844ad1b8e97 (patch) | |
tree | 3ec2c4dc7d51fa1f5f2797e09fd8361a8404b474 /drivers/xen | |
parent | fbe84a09da746f781553051bb3dbc63f7b0a5162 (diff) |
mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key
I have noticed that frontswap.h first declares "frontswap_enabled" as
extern bool variable, and then overrides it with "#define
frontswap_enabled (1)" for CONFIG_FRONTSWAP=Y or (0) when disabled. The
bool variable isn't actually instantiated anywhere.
This all looks like an unfinished attempt to make frontswap_enabled
reflect whether a backend is instantiated. But in the current state,
all frontswap hooks call unconditionally into frontswap.c just to check
if frontswap_ops is non-NULL. This should at least be checked inline,
but we can further eliminate the overhead when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is
enabled and no backend registered, using a static key that is initially
disabled, and gets enabled only upon first backend registration.
Thus, checks for "frontswap_enabled" are replaced with
"frontswap_enabled()" wrapping the static key check. There are two
exceptions:
- xen's selfballoon_process() was testing frontswap_enabled in code guarded
by #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP, which was effectively always true when reachable.
The patch just removes this check. Using frontswap_enabled() does not sound
correct here, as this can be true even without xen's own backend being
registered.
- in SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon), change the check to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP)
as it seems the bitmap allocation cannot currently be postponed until a
backend is registered. This means that frontswap will still have some
memory overhead by being configured, but without a backend.
After the patch, we can expect that some functions in frontswap.c are
called only when frontswap_ops is non-NULL. Change the checks there to
VM_BUG_ONs. While at it, convert other BUG_ONs to VM_BUG_ONs as
frontswap has been stable for some time.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463152235-9717-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c index 53a085fca00c..66620713242a 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work) MB2PAGES(selfballoon_reserved_mb); #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP /* allow space for frontswap pages to be repatriated */ - if (frontswap_selfshrinking && frontswap_enabled) + if (frontswap_selfshrinking) goal_pages += frontswap_curr_pages(); #endif if (cur_pages > goal_pages) @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work) reset_timer = true; } #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP - if (frontswap_selfshrinking && frontswap_enabled) { + if (frontswap_selfshrinking) { frontswap_selfshrink(); reset_timer = true; } |