mm: reuse_swap_page replaces can_share_swap_page

A good place to free up old swap is where do_wp_page(), or do_swap_page(),
is about to redirty the page: the data on disk is then stale and won't be
read again; and if we do decide to write the page out later, using the
previous swap location makes an unnecessary disk seek very likely.

So give can_share_swap_page() the side-effect of delete_from_swap_cache()
when it safely can.  And can_share_swap_page() was always a misleading
name, the more so if it has a side-effect: rename it reuse_swap_page().

Irrelevant cleanup nearby: remove swap_token_default_timeout definition
from swap.h: it's used nowhere.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 3922ffc..8f471ed 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			}
 			page_cache_release(old_page);
 		}
-		reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
+		reuse = reuse_swap_page(old_page);
 		unlock_page(old_page);
 	} else if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
 					(VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
@@ -2392,7 +2392,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	inc_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
 	pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
-	if (write_access && can_share_swap_page(page)) {
+	if (write_access && reuse_swap_page(page)) {
 		pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(pte), vma);
 		write_access = 0;
 	}
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 214e90b..bfd4ee5 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -326,17 +326,24 @@ static inline int page_swapcount(struct page *page)
 }
 
 /*
- * We can use this swap cache entry directly
- * if there are no other references to it.
+ * We can write to an anon page without COW if there are no other references
+ * to it.  And as a side-effect, free up its swap: because the old content
+ * on disk will never be read, and seeking back there to write new content
+ * later would only waste time away from clustering.
  */
-int can_share_swap_page(struct page *page)
+int reuse_swap_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	int count;
 
 	VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 	count = page_mapcount(page);
-	if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page))
+	if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page)) {
 		count += page_swapcount(page);
+		if (count == 1 && !PageWriteback(page)) {
+			delete_from_swap_cache(page);
+			SetPageDirty(page);
+		}
+	}
 	return count == 1;
 }