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mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree
ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0e ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by:Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: