From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85AFD6B01BE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:39:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:34:39 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Subject: [PATCH -mm 3/6] ksm: fix ksm swapin time optimization Message-ID: <20100621163439.4e76c2f8@annuminas.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <20100621163146.4e4e30cb@annuminas.surriel.com> References: <20100621163146.4e4e30cb@annuminas.surriel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, aarcange@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com List-ID: From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: fix ksm swapin time optimization The new anon-vma code, was suboptimal and it lead to erratic invocation of ksm_does_need_to_copy. That leads to host hangs or guest vnc lockup, or weird behavior. It's unclear why ksm_does_need_to_copy is unstable but the point is that when KSM is not in use, ksm_does_need_to_copy must never run or we bounce pages for no good reason. I suspect the same hangs will happen with KVM swaps. But this at least fixes the regression in the new-anon-vma code and it only let KSM bugs triggers when KSM is in use. The code in do_swap_page likely doesn't cope well with a not-swapcache, especially the memcg code. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel --- diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h --- a/include/linux/ksm.h +++ b/include/linux/ksm.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline struct page *ksm_might_nee struct anon_vma *anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page); if (!anon_vma || - (anon_vma == vma->anon_vma && + (anon_vma->root == vma->anon_vma->root && page->index == linear_page_index(vma, address))) return page; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org