linux-kernel - [PATCH] xen/tmem: Don't over-write tmem_frontswap_poolid after tmem_frontswap

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Date:	Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Cc:	dan.magenheimer@...cle.com,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xen/tmem: Don't over-write tmem_frontswap_poolid after
 tmem_frontswap_init set it.

Commit 10a7a0771399a57a297fca9615450dbb3f88081a ("xen: tmem: enable Xen
tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module") allows the tmem module
to be loaded any time. For this work the frontswap API had to
be able to asynchronously to call tmem_frontswap_init before
or after the swap image had been set. That was added in git
commit 905cd0e1bf9ffe82d6906a01fd974ea0f70be97a
("mm: frontswap: lazy initialization to allow tmem backends to build/run as modules").

Which means we could do this (The common case):

 modprobe tmem		[so calls frontswap_register_ops, no ->init]
			 modifies tmem_frontswap_poolid = -1
 swapon /dev/xvda1	[__frontswap_init, calls -> init, tmem_frontswap_poolid is
			 < 0 so tmem hypercall done]

Or the failing one:

 swapon /dev/xvda1	[calls __frontswap_init, sets the need_init bitmap]
 modprobe tmem		[calls frontswap_register_ops, -->init calls, finds out
			tmem_frontswap_poolid is 0, does not make a hypercall.
			Later in the module_init, sets tmem_frontswap_poolid=-1]

Which meant that in the failing case we would not call the hypercall
to initialize the pool and never be able to make any frontswap
backend calls.

Moving the frontswap_register_ops after setting the tmem_frontswap_poolid
fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/xen/tmem.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
index cc072c6..0f0493c 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ static int xen_tmem_init(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
 	if (tmem_enabled && frontswap) {
 		char *s = "";
-		struct frontswap_ops *old_ops =
-			frontswap_register_ops(&tmem_frontswap_ops);
+		struct frontswap_ops *old_ops;
 
 		tmem_frontswap_poolid = -1;
+		old_ops = frontswap_register_ops(&tmem_frontswap_ops);
 		if (IS_ERR(old_ops) || old_ops) {
 			if (IS_ERR(old_ops))
 				return PTR_ERR(old_ops);
-- 
1.8.1.4

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