Subject: [PATCH 05/18] MM: reclaim mustn't enter FS for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:     linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:48:22 +1100
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If swap-out is using filesystem operations (SWP_FS_OPS), then it is not
safe to enter the FS for reclaim.
So only down-grade the requirement for swap pages to __GFP_IO after
checking that SWP_FS_OPS are not being used.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |   21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 969bcdb4ca80..5f460d174b1b 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1465,6 +1465,21 @@ static unsigned int demote_page_list(struct list_head *demote_pages,
 	return nr_succeeded;
 }
 
+static bool test_may_enter_fs(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)
+		return true;
+	if (!PageSwapCache(page) || !(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
+		return false;
+	/* We can "enter_fs" for swap-cache with only __GFP_IO
+	 * providing this isn't SWP_FS_OPS.
+	 * ->flags can be updated non-atomicially (scan_swap_map_slots),
+	 * but that will never affect SWP_FS_OPS, so the data_race
+	 * is safe.
+	 */
+	return !data_race(page_swap_info(page)->flags & SWP_FS_OPS);
+}
+
 /*
  * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
  */
@@ -1514,8 +1529,7 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 		if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
 			goto keep_locked;
 
-		may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) ||
-			(PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO));
+		may_enter_fs = test_may_enter_fs(page, sc->gfp_mask);
 
 		/*
 		 * The number of dirty pages determines if a node is marked
@@ -1683,7 +1697,8 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 						goto activate_locked_split;
 				}
 
-				may_enter_fs = true;
+				may_enter_fs = test_may_enter_fs(page,
+								 sc->gfp_mask);
 
 				/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
 				mapping = page_mapping(page);