mm: memcontrol: skip moving non-present pages that are mapped elsewhere

Patch series "mm: push down lock_page_memcg()", v2.


This patch (of 3):

During charge moving, the pte lock and the page lock cover nearly all
cases of stabilizing page_mapped().  The only exception is when we're
looking at a non-present pte and find a page in the page cache or in the
swapcache: if the page is mapped elsewhere, it can become unmapped outside
of our control.  For this reason, rmap needs lock_page_memcg().

We don't like cgroup-specific locks in generic MM code - especially in
performance-critical MM code - and for a legacy feature that's unlikely to
have many users left - if any.

So remove the exception.  Arguably that's better semantics anyway: the
page is shared, and another process seems to be the more active user.

Once we stop moving such pages, rmap doesn't need lock_page_memcg()
anymore.  The next patch will remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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