Re: [PATCH] swapfile: fix uncorrect statistical count about free swap

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Sun Dec 04 2022 - 23:14:13 EST


On Mon, 5 Dec 2022, Chen Wandun wrote:

> The counter of free swap turn to negtive during swapoff, this
> phenomenon can be observed in oom log, such as:
>
> 1226 total pagecache pages
> 47 pages in swap cache
> Swap cache stats: add 119633, delete 119814, find 26832/82125
> Free swap = -31796kB
> Total swap = 0kB
> 1048576 pages RAM
>
> Subtract the size of swap partition from free swap should put behind
> try_to_unuse, otherwise, it will result in negtive counter if swap
> partition is in use.
>
> Fixes: ec8acf20afb8 ("swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile")
> Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxx>

No: it is intentional, and long established, that the count goes negative
during swapoff - that helps to inform you that it is in swapoff.

Hugh

> ---
> mm/swapfile.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> index 72e481aacd5d..5b9b695be84b 100644
> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> @@ -2316,8 +2316,6 @@ static void setup_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio,
> static void _enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p)
> {
> p->flags |= SWP_WRITEOK;
> - atomic_long_add(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
> - total_swap_pages += p->pages;
>
> assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock);
> /*
> @@ -2353,6 +2351,8 @@ static void enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio,
> spin_lock(&swap_lock);
> spin_lock(&p->lock);
> _enable_swap_info(p);
> + atomic_long_add(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
> + total_swap_pages += p->pages;
> spin_unlock(&p->lock);
> spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> }
> @@ -2444,8 +2444,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
> least_priority++;
> }
> plist_del(&p->list, &swap_active_head);
> - atomic_long_sub(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
> - total_swap_pages -= p->pages;
> p->flags &= ~SWP_WRITEOK;
> spin_unlock(&p->lock);
> spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> @@ -2500,6 +2498,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
> spin_lock(&p->lock);
> }
>
> + atomic_long_sub(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
> + total_swap_pages -= p->pages;
> swap_file = p->swap_file;
> old_block_size = p->old_block_size;
> p->swap_file = NULL;
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>