linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap: don't allow entry eviction if in use by load

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Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:59:20 +0800
From:	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@...il.com>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap: don't allow entry eviction if in use by load

Hello Dan

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org> wrote:
> The changes in commit 0ab0abcf511545d1fddbe72a36b3ca73388ac937
> introduce a bug in writeback, if an entry is in use by load
> it will be evicted anyway, which isn't correct (technically,
> the code currently in zbud doesn't actually care much what the
> zswap evict function returns, but that could change).

Thanks for your work. Howerver it is not a bug.

I have thought about this situation, and it will never happen.
If entry is being loaded, its corresponding page must be in swapcache
so zswap_get_swap_cache_page() will return ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_EXIST

If I miss something, please let me know.

Thanks!

> This changes the check in the writeback function to prevent eviction
> if the entry is still in use (with a nonzero refcount).  The
> refcount is used instead of searching the rb tree beacuse we're
> holding the tree lock (which is required for any changes to refcount)
> and it's faster than a tree search.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
> ---
>  mm/zswap.c | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index e55bab9..e154f1e 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -600,14 +600,18 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zbud_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
>         zswap_entry_put(tree, entry);
>
>         /*
> -       * There are two possible situations for entry here:
> +       * There are three possible situations for entry here:
>         * (1) refcount is 1(normal case),  entry is valid and on the tree
>         * (2) refcount is 0, entry is freed and not on the tree
>         *     because invalidate happened during writeback
> -       *  search the tree and free the entry if find entry
> +       * (3) refcount is 2, entry is in use by load, prevent eviction
>         */
> -       if (entry == zswap_rb_search(&tree->rbroot, offset))
> +       if (likely(entry->refcount > 0))
>                 zswap_entry_put(tree, entry);
> +       if (unlikely(entry->refcount > 0)) {
> +               spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> +               return -EAGAIN;
> +       }
>         spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
>
>         goto end;
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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