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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:47:28 +0100
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] zram: get rid of lockdep warning

On 01/21/2013 06:21 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Lockdep complains about recursive deadlock of zram->init_lock.
> [1] made it false positive because we can't request IO to zram
> before setting disksize. Anyway, we should shut lockdep up to
> avoid many reporting from user.
> 
> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c   |  115 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h   |   12 +++-
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c |   10 +++-
>  3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index e95e37c..1f6938a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -462,19 +462,12 @@ error:
>  void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
>  {
>  	size_t index;
> +	struct zram_meta meta;
>  
>  	if (!zram->init_done)
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	zram->init_done = 0;
> -
> -	/* Free various per-device buffers */
> -	kfree(zram->compress_workmem);
> -	free_pages((unsigned long)zram->compress_buffer, 1);
> -
> -	zram->compress_workmem = NULL;
> -	zram->compress_buffer = NULL;
> -
>  	/* Free all pages that are still in this zram device */
>  	for (index = 0; index < zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT; index++) {
>  		unsigned long handle = zram->table[index].handle;
> @@ -484,11 +477,11 @@ void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
>  		zs_free(zram->mem_pool, handle);
>  	}
>  
> -	vfree(zram->table);
> -	zram->table = NULL;
> -
> -	zs_destroy_pool(zram->mem_pool);
> -	zram->mem_pool = NULL;
> +	meta.compress_workmem = zram->compress_workmem;
> +	meta.compress_buffer = zram->compress_buffer;
> +	meta.table = zram->table;
> +	meta.mem_pool = zram->mem_pool;
> +	zram_meta_free(&meta);
>  
>  	/* Reset stats */
>  	memset(&zram->stats, 0, sizeof(zram->stats));
> @@ -505,12 +498,59 @@ void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
>  	up_write(&zram->init_lock);
>  }
>  
> -/* zram->init_lock should be held */
> -int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
> +void zram_meta_free(struct zram_meta *meta)
> +{
> +	zs_destroy_pool(meta->mem_pool);
> +	kfree(meta->compress_workmem);
> +	free_pages((unsigned long)meta->compress_buffer, 1);
> +	vfree(meta->table);
> +	kfree(meta);

At all callsite, meta is a local variable. We don't want to free it.

> +}
> +
> +int zram_meta_alloc(struct zram_meta *meta, u64 disksize)
>  {
> -	int ret;
>  	size_t num_pages;
>  
> +	meta->compress_workmem = kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!meta->compress_workmem) {
> +		pr_err("Error allocating compressor working memory!\n");
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	meta->compress_buffer =
> +			(void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO, 1);
> +	if (!meta->compress_buffer) {
> +		pr_err("Error allocating compressor buffer space\n");
> +		goto free_workmem;
> +	}
> +
> +	num_pages = disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	meta->table = vzalloc(num_pages * sizeof(*meta->table));
> +	if (!meta->table) {
> +		pr_err("Error allocating zram address table\n");
> +		goto free_buffer;
> +	}
> +
> +	meta->mem_pool = zs_create_pool("zram", GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> +	if (!meta->mem_pool) {
> +		pr_err("Error creating memory pool\n");
> +		goto free_table;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +
> +free_table:
> +	vfree(meta->table);
> +free_buffer:
> +	free_pages((unsigned long)meta->compress_buffer, 1);
> +free_workmem:
> +	kfree(meta->compress_workmem);
> +out:
> +	return -ENOMEM;
> +}
> +
> +void zram_init_device(struct zram *zram, struct zram_meta *meta)
> +{
>  	if (zram->disksize > 2 * (totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT)) {
>  		pr_info(
>  		"There is little point creating a zram of greater than "
> @@ -525,51 +565,16 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
>  		);
>  	}
>  
> -	zram->compress_workmem = kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!zram->compress_workmem) {
> -		pr_err("Error allocating compressor working memory!\n");
> -		ret = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto fail_no_table;
> -	}
> -
> -	zram->compress_buffer =
> -		(void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 1);
> -	if (!zram->compress_buffer) {
> -		pr_err("Error allocating compressor buffer space\n");
> -		ret = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto fail_no_table;
> -	}
> -
> -	num_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -	zram->table = vzalloc(num_pages * sizeof(*zram->table));
> -	if (!zram->table) {
> -		pr_err("Error allocating zram address table\n");
> -		ret = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto fail_no_table;
> -	}
> -
>  	/* zram devices sort of resembles non-rotational disks */
>  	queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, zram->disk->queue);
>  
> -	zram->mem_pool = zs_create_pool("zram", GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> -	if (!zram->mem_pool) {
> -		pr_err("Error creating memory pool\n");
> -		ret = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto fail;
> -	}
> -
> +	zram->mem_pool = meta->mem_pool;
> +	zram->compress_workmem = meta->compress_workmem;
> +	zram->compress_buffer = meta->compress_buffer;
> +	zram->table = meta->table;
>  	zram->init_done = 1;
>  
>  	pr_debug("Initialization done!\n");
> -	return 0;
> -
> -fail_no_table:
> -	/* To prevent accessing table entries during cleanup */
> -	zram->disksize = 0;
> -fail:
> -	__zram_reset_device(zram);

Here goes the last call to __zram_reset_device() outside of zram_reset_device().
I guess we should get rid of it.

Jerome

> -	pr_err("Initialization failed: err=%d\n", ret);
> -	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
> index 5b671d1..fbe7db0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
> @@ -83,11 +83,19 @@ struct zram_stats {
>  	u32 bad_compress;	/* % of pages with compression ratio>=75% */
>  };
>  
> +struct zram_meta {
> +	void *compress_workmem;
> +	void *compress_buffer;
> +	struct table *table;
> +	struct zs_pool *mem_pool;
> +};
> +
>  struct zram {
>  	struct zs_pool *mem_pool;
>  	void *compress_workmem;
>  	void *compress_buffer;
>  	struct table *table;
> +
>  	spinlock_t stat64_lock;	/* protect 64-bit stats */
>  	struct rw_semaphore lock; /* protect compression buffers and table
>  				   * against concurrent read and writes */
> @@ -111,7 +119,9 @@ unsigned int zram_get_num_devices(void);
>  extern struct attribute_group zram_disk_attr_group;
>  #endif
>  
> -extern int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram);
>  extern void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram);
> +extern int zram_meta_alloc(struct zram_meta *meta, u64 disksize);
> +extern void zram_meta_free(struct zram_meta *meta);
> +extern void zram_init_device(struct zram *zram, struct zram_meta *meta);
>  
>  #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
> index 369db12..31433ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
> @@ -56,22 +56,28 @@ static ssize_t disksize_store(struct device *dev,
>  		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
>  {
>  	u64 disksize;
> +	struct zram_meta meta;
>  	struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
>  
>  	disksize = memparse(buf, NULL);
>  	if (!disksize)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	disksize = PAGE_ALIGN(disksize);
> +	if (zram_meta_alloc(&meta, disksize))
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  	down_write(&zram->init_lock);
>  	if (zram->init_done) {
>  		up_write(&zram->init_lock);
> +		zram_meta_free(&meta);
>  		pr_info("Cannot change disksize for initialized device\n");
>  		return -EBUSY;
>  	}
>  
> -	zram->disksize = PAGE_ALIGN(disksize);
> +	zram->disksize = disksize;
>  	set_capacity(zram->disk, zram->disksize >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
> -	zram_init_device(zram);
> +	zram_init_device(zram, &meta);
>  	up_write(&zram->init_lock);
>  
>  	return len;
> 

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