From: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:43:35 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: mm, swap: free the swap cache after folio is mapped
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mm, swap: free the swap cache after folio is mapped

Currently, we remove the folio from the swap cache and free the swap cache
before mapping the PTE.  To reduce repeated faults due to parallel swapins
of the same PTE, change it to remove the folio from the swap cache after
it is mapped.  So new faults from the swap PTE will be much more likely to
see the folio in the swap cache and wait on it.

This does not eliminate all swapin races: an ongoing swapin fault may
still see an empty swap cache.  That's harmless, as the PTE is changed
before the swap cache is cleared, so it will just return and not trigger
any repeated faults.  This does help to reduce the chance.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251220-swap-table-p2-v5-6-8862a265a033@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8e38d3d934339..60258033103ed 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4365,6 +4365,7 @@ static vm_fault_t remove_device_exclusive_entry(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 static inline bool should_try_to_free_swap(struct swap_info_struct *si,
 					   struct folio *folio,
 					   struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					   unsigned int extra_refs,
 					   unsigned int fault_flags)
 {
 	if (!folio_test_swapcache(folio))
@@ -4387,7 +4388,7 @@ static inline bool should_try_to_free_swap(struct swap_info_struct *si,
 	 * reference only in case it's likely that we'll be the exclusive user.
 	 */
 	return (fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && !folio_test_ksm(folio) &&
-		folio_ref_count(folio) == (1 + folio_nr_pages(folio));
+		folio_ref_count(folio) == (extra_refs + folio_nr_pages(folio));
 }
 
 static vm_fault_t pte_marker_clear(struct vm_fault *vmf)
@@ -4939,15 +4940,6 @@ check_folio:
 	 */
 	arch_swap_restore(folio_swap(entry, folio), folio);
 
-	/*
-	 * Remove the swap entry and conditionally try to free up the swapcache.
-	 * We're already holding a reference on the page but haven't mapped it
-	 * yet.
-	 */
-	swap_free_nr(entry, nr_pages);
-	if (should_try_to_free_swap(si, folio, vma, vmf->flags))
-		folio_free_swap(folio);
-
 	add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, nr_pages);
 	add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_SWAPENTS, -nr_pages);
 	pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
@@ -5001,6 +4993,15 @@ check_folio:
 	arch_do_swap_page_nr(vma->vm_mm, vma, address,
 			pte, pte, nr_pages);
 
+	/*
+	 * Remove the swap entry and conditionally try to free up the swapcache.
+	 * Do it after mapping, so raced page faults will likely see the folio
+	 * in swap cache and wait on the folio lock.
+	 */
+	swap_free_nr(entry, nr_pages);
+	if (should_try_to_free_swap(si, folio, vma, nr_pages, vmf->flags))
+		folio_free_swap(folio);
+
 	folio_unlock(folio);
 	if (unlikely(folio != swapcache)) {
 		/*