From 8ea1d2a1985a7ae096edf5850a31d844ad1b8e97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:24:42 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c') diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 031713ab40ce..78cfa292a29a 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -2493,7 +2493,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) goto bad_swap; } /* frontswap enabled? set up bit-per-page map for frontswap */ - if (frontswap_enabled) + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP)) frontswap_map = vzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(maxpages) * sizeof(long)); if (p->bdev &&(swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD) && swap_discardable(p)) { -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b