linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 034/107] zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap

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Date:   Mon,  3 Sep 2018 18:55:58 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Li Wang <liwang@...hat.com>,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 034/107] zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap_shrink()

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Li Wang <liwang@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 16e536ef47f567289a5699abee9ff7bb304bc12d ]

/sys/../zswap/stored_pages keeps rising in a zswap test with
"zswap.max_pool_percent=0" parameter.  But it should not compress or
store pages any more since there is no space in the compressed pool.

Reproduce steps:
  1. Boot kernel with "zswap.enabled=1"
  2. Set the max_pool_percent to 0
      # echo 0 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent
  3. Do memory stress test to see if some pages have been compressed
      # stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes $mem_available"M" --timeout 60s
  4. Watching the 'stored_pages' number increasing or not

The root cause is:

  When zswap_max_pool_percent is set to 0 via kernel parameter,
  zswap_is_full() will always return true due to zswap_shrink().  But if
  the shinking is able to reclain a page successfully the code then
  proceeds to compressing/storing another page, so the value of
  stored_pages will keep changing.

To solve the issue, this patch adds a zswap_is_full() check again after
  zswap_shrink() to make sure it's now under the max_pool_percent, and to
  not compress/store if we reached the limit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180530103936.17812-1-liwang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/zswap.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1018,6 +1018,15 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigne
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto reject;
 		}
+
+		/* A second zswap_is_full() check after
+		 * zswap_shrink() to make sure it's now
+		 * under the max_pool_percent
+		 */
+		if (zswap_is_full()) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto reject;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* allocate entry */