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Commit13ddaf26be("mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache") introduced an unconditional one-tick sleep when `swapcache_prepare()` fails, which has led to reports of UI stuttering on latency-sensitive Android devices. To address this, we can use a waitqueue to wake up tasks that fail `swapcache_prepare()` sooner, instead of always sleeping for a full tick. While tasks may occasionally be woken by an unrelated `do_swap_page()`, this method is preferable to two scenarios: rapid re-entry into page faults, which can cause livelocks, and multiple millisecond sleeps, which visibly degrade user experience. Oven's testing shows that a single waitqueue resolves the UI stuttering issue. If a 'thundering herd' problem becomes apparent later, a waitqueue hash similar to `folio_wait_table[PAGE_WAIT_TABLE_SIZE]` for page bit locks can be introduced. [v-songbaohua@oppo.com: wake_up only when swapcache_wq waitqueue is active] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241008130807.40833-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926211936.75373-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Fixes:13ddaf26be("mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache") Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Reported-by: Oven Liyang <liyangouwen1@oppo.com> Tested-by: Oven Liyang <liyangouwen1@oppo.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.