patches/old/mm-avoid-unconditional-one-tick-sleep-when-swapcache_prepare-fails.patch

From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Subject: mm: avoid unconditional one-tick sleep when swapcache_prepare fails
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:19:36 +1200

Commit 13ddaf26be32 ("mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache")
introduced an unconditional one-tick sleep when `swapcache_prepare()`
fails, which has led to reports of UI stuttering on latency-sensitive
Android devices.  To address this, we can use a waitqueue to wake up tasks
that fail `swapcache_prepare()` sooner, instead of always sleeping for a
full tick.  While tasks may occasionally be woken by an unrelated
`do_swap_page()`, this method is preferable to two scenarios: rapid
re-entry into page faults, which can cause livelocks, and multiple
millisecond sleeps, which visibly degrade user experience.

Oven's testing shows that a single waitqueue resolves the UI stuttering
issue.  If a 'thundering herd' problem becomes apparent later, a waitqueue
hash similar to `folio_wait_table[PAGE_WAIT_TABLE_SIZE]` for page bit
locks can be introduced.

[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: wake_up only when swapcache_wq waitqueue is active]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241008130807.40833-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926211936.75373-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Fixes: 13ddaf26be32 ("mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache")
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reported-by: Oven Liyang <liyangouwen1@oppo.com>
Tested-by: Oven Liyang <liyangouwen1@oppo.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/memory.c |   15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-avoid-unconditional-one-tick-sleep-when-swapcache_prepare-fails
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -4187,6 +4187,8 @@ static struct folio *alloc_swap_folio(st
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
 
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(swapcache_wq);
+
 /*
  * We enter with non-exclusive mmap_lock (to exclude vma changes,
  * but allow concurrent faults), and pte mapped but not yet locked.
@@ -4199,6 +4201,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
 	struct folio *swapcache, *folio = NULL;
+	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
 	struct page *page;
 	struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL;
 	rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE;
@@ -4297,7 +4300,9 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault
 					 * Relax a bit to prevent rapid
 					 * repeated page faults.
 					 */
+					add_wait_queue(&swapcache_wq, &wait);
 					schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+					remove_wait_queue(&swapcache_wq, &wait);
 					goto out_page;
 				}
 				need_clear_cache = true;
@@ -4604,8 +4609,11 @@ unlock:
 		pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
 out:
 	/* Clear the swap cache pin for direct swapin after PTL unlock */
-	if (need_clear_cache)
+	if (need_clear_cache) {
 		swapcache_clear(si, entry, nr_pages);
+		if (waitqueue_active(&swapcache_wq))
+			wake_up(&swapcache_wq);
+	}
 	if (si)
 		put_swap_device(si);
 	return ret;
@@ -4620,8 +4628,11 @@ out_release:
 		folio_unlock(swapcache);
 		folio_put(swapcache);
 	}
-	if (need_clear_cache)
+	if (need_clear_cache) {
 		swapcache_clear(si, entry, nr_pages);
+		if (waitqueue_active(&swapcache_wq))
+			wake_up(&swapcache_wq);
+	}
 	if (si)
 		put_swap_device(si);
 	return ret;
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