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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/shmem_fs.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c28
4 files changed, 36 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
index 1ec9a9f8196b..f18f46be5c0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ everything stored therein is lost.
tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and
shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap
-unneeded pages out to swap space, and supports THP.
+unneeded pages out to swap space, if swap was enabled for the tmpfs
+mount. tmpfs also supports THP.
tmpfs extends ramfs with a few userspace configurable options listed and
explained further below, some of which can be reconfigured dynamically on the
@@ -33,8 +34,8 @@ configured in size at initialization and you cannot dynamically resize them.
Contrary to brd ramdisks, tmpfs has its own filesystem, it does not rely on the
block layer at all.
-Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs
-pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in
+Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and optionally on swap,
+all tmpfs pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in
free(1). Notice that these counters also include shared memory
(shmem, see ipcs(1)). The most reliable way to get the count is
using df(1) and du(1).
@@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ nr_inodes The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default
is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a
machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
whichever is the lower.
+noswap Disables swap. Remounts must respect the original settings.
+ By default swap is enabled.
========= ============================================================
These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst
index 92ac5dca420c..d5ac8511eb67 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ The unevictable list addresses the following classes of unevictable pages:
* Those owned by ramfs.
+ * Those owned by tmpfs with the noswap mount option.
+
* Those mapped into SHM_LOCK'd shared memory regions.
* Those mapped into VM_LOCKED [mlock()ed] VMAs.
diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
index 103d1000a5a2..50bf82b36995 100644
--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ struct shmem_sb_info {
kuid_t uid; /* Mount uid for root directory */
kgid_t gid; /* Mount gid for root directory */
bool full_inums; /* If i_ino should be uint or ino_t */
+ bool noswap; /* ignores VM reclaim / swap requests */
ino_t next_ino; /* The next per-sb inode number to use */
ino_t __percpu *ino_batch; /* The next per-cpu inode number to use */
struct mempolicy *mpol; /* default memory policy for mappings */
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 7751c136eadb..787e83791eb5 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -116,10 +116,12 @@ struct shmem_options {
bool full_inums;
int huge;
int seen;
+ bool noswap;
#define SHMEM_SEEN_BLOCKS 1
#define SHMEM_SEEN_INODES 2
#define SHMEM_SEEN_HUGE 4
#define SHMEM_SEEN_INUMS 8
+#define SHMEM_SEEN_NOSWAP 16
};
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
@@ -1334,6 +1336,7 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
struct address_space *mapping = folio->mapping;
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
+ struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(inode->i_sb);
swp_entry_t swap;
pgoff_t index;
@@ -1347,7 +1350,7 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!wbc->for_reclaim))
goto redirty;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(info->flags & VM_LOCKED))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE((info->flags & VM_LOCKED) || sbinfo->noswap))
goto redirty;
if (!total_swap_pages)
@@ -2372,6 +2375,8 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct super_block
shmem_set_inode_flags(inode, info->fsflags);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->shrinklist);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->swaplist);
+ if (sbinfo->noswap)
+ mapping_set_unevictable(inode->i_mapping);
simple_xattrs_init(&info->xattrs);
cache_no_acl(inode);
mapping_set_large_folios(inode->i_mapping);
@@ -3459,6 +3464,7 @@ enum shmem_param {
Opt_uid,
Opt_inode32,
Opt_inode64,
+ Opt_noswap,
};
static const struct constant_table shmem_param_enums_huge[] = {
@@ -3480,6 +3486,7 @@ const struct fs_parameter_spec shmem_fs_parameters[] = {
fsparam_u32 ("uid", Opt_uid),
fsparam_flag ("inode32", Opt_inode32),
fsparam_flag ("inode64", Opt_inode64),
+ fsparam_flag ("noswap", Opt_noswap),
{}
};
@@ -3563,6 +3570,10 @@ static int shmem_parse_one(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
ctx->full_inums = true;
ctx->seen |= SHMEM_SEEN_INUMS;
break;
+ case Opt_noswap:
+ ctx->noswap = true;
+ ctx->seen |= SHMEM_SEEN_NOSWAP;
+ break;
}
return 0;
@@ -3661,6 +3672,14 @@ static int shmem_reconfigure(struct fs_context *fc)
err = "Current inum too high to switch to 32-bit inums";
goto out;
}
+ if ((ctx->seen & SHMEM_SEEN_NOSWAP) && ctx->noswap && !sbinfo->noswap) {
+ err = "Cannot disable swap on remount";
+ goto out;
+ }
+ if (!(ctx->seen & SHMEM_SEEN_NOSWAP) && !ctx->noswap && sbinfo->noswap) {
+ err = "Cannot enable swap on remount if it was disabled on first mount";
+ goto out;
+ }
if (ctx->seen & SHMEM_SEEN_HUGE)
sbinfo->huge = ctx->huge;
@@ -3681,6 +3700,10 @@ static int shmem_reconfigure(struct fs_context *fc)
sbinfo->mpol = ctx->mpol; /* transfers initial ref */
ctx->mpol = NULL;
}
+
+ if (ctx->noswap)
+ sbinfo->noswap = true;
+
raw_spin_unlock(&sbinfo->stat_lock);
mpol_put(mpol);
return 0;
@@ -3735,6 +3758,8 @@ static int shmem_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root)
seq_printf(seq, ",huge=%s", shmem_format_huge(sbinfo->huge));
#endif
shmem_show_mpol(seq, sbinfo->mpol);
+ if (sbinfo->noswap)
+ seq_printf(seq, ",noswap");
return 0;
}
@@ -3778,6 +3803,7 @@ static int shmem_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
ctx->inodes = shmem_default_max_inodes();
if (!(ctx->seen & SHMEM_SEEN_INUMS))
ctx->full_inums = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64);
+ sbinfo->noswap = ctx->noswap;
} else {
sb->s_flags |= SB_NOUSER;
}