[PATCH 00/18 V2] Repair SWAP-over-NFS

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

swap-over-NFS currently has a variety of problems.

swap writes call generic_write_checks(), which always fails on a swap
file, so it completely fails.
Even without this, various deadlocks are possible - largely due to
improvements in NFS memory allocation (using NOFS instead of ATOMIC)
which weren't tested against swap-out.

NFS is the only filesystem that has supported fs-based swap IO, and it
hasn't worked for several releases, so now is a convenient time to clean
up the swap-via-filesystem interfaces - we cannot break anything !

So the first few patches here clean up and improve various parts of the
swap-via-filesystem code.  ->activate_swap() is given a cleaner
interface, a new ->swap_rw is introduced instead of burdening
->direct_IO, etc.

Current swap-to-filesystem code only ever submits single-page reads and
writes.  These patches change that to allow multi-page IO when adjacent
requests are submitted.  Writes are also changed to be async rather than
sync.  This substantially speeds up write throughput for swap-over-NFS.

Some of the NFS patches can land independently of the MM patches.  A few
require the MM patches to land first.

Thanks,
NeilBrown


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NeilBrown (18):
      Structural cleanup for filesystem-based swap
      MM: create new mm/swap.h header file.
      MM: use ->swap_rw for reads from SWP_FS_OPS swap-space
      MM: perform async writes to SWP_FS_OPS swap-space
      MM: reclaim mustn't enter FS for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space
      MM: submit multipage reads for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space
      MM: submit multipage write for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space
      MM: Add AS_CAN_DIO mapping flag
      NFS: rename nfs_direct_IO and use as ->swap_rw
      NFS: swap IO handling is slightly different for O_DIRECT IO
      SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory
      SUNRPC/auth: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory
      SUNRPC/xprt: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory
      SUNRPC: remove scheduling boost for "SWAPPER" tasks.
      NFS: discard NFS_RPC_SWAPFLAGS and RPC_TASK_ROOTCREDS
      SUNRPC: improve 'swap' handling: scheduling and PF_MEMALLOC
      NFSv4: keep state manager thread active if swap is enabled
      NFS: swap-out must always use STABLE writes.


 drivers/block/loop.c            |   4 +-
 fs/fcntl.c                      |   5 +-
 fs/inode.c                      |   3 +
 fs/nfs/direct.c                 |  56 ++++++----
 fs/nfs/file.c                   |  25 +++--
 fs/nfs/inode.c                  |   1 +
 fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h                |   1 +
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c               |  20 ++++
 fs/nfs/nfs4state.c              |  39 ++++++-
 fs/nfs/read.c                   |   4 -
 fs/nfs/write.c                  |   2 +
 fs/open.c                       |   2 +-
 fs/overlayfs/file.c             |  10 +-
 include/linux/fs.h              |   2 +-
 include/linux/nfs_fs.h          |  11 +-
 include/linux/nfs_xdr.h         |   2 +
 include/linux/pagemap.h         |   3 +-
 include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h     |   1 +
 include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h    |   1 -
 include/linux/swap.h            | 121 --------------------
 include/linux/writeback.h       |   7 ++
 include/trace/events/sunrpc.h   |   1 -
 mm/madvise.c                    |   9 +-
 mm/memory.c                     |   3 +-
 mm/mincore.c                    |   1 +
 mm/page_alloc.c                 |   1 +
 mm/page_io.c                    | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 mm/shmem.c                      |   1 +
 mm/swap.h                       | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/swap_state.c                 |  32 ++++--
 mm/swapfile.c                   |   6 +
 mm/util.c                       |   1 +
 mm/vmscan.c                     |  31 +++++-
 net/sunrpc/auth.c               |   8 +-
 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c  |   6 +-
 net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c          |  10 +-
 net/sunrpc/clnt.c               |   7 +-
 net/sunrpc/sched.c              |  29 +++--
 net/sunrpc/xprt.c               |  19 ++--
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c |  10 +-
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c           |   8 ++
 41 files changed, 558 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 mm/swap.h

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