linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -V5 RESEND 03/21] swap: Support PMD swap mapping in swap

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Message-ID: <20180926145145.6xp2kxpngyd54f6i@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:51:45 -0700
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V5 RESEND 03/21] swap: Support PMD swap mapping in
 swap_duplicate()

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:55:59PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 03:13:30PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> >>  /*
> >>   * Increase reference count of swap entry by 1.
> >> - * Returns 0 for success, or -ENOMEM if a swap_count_continuation is required
> >> - * but could not be atomically allocated.  Returns 0, just as if it succeeded,
> >> - * if __swap_duplicate() fails for another reason (-EINVAL or -ENOENT), which
> >> - * might occur if a page table entry has got corrupted.
> >> + *
> >> + * Return error code in following case.
> >> + * - success -> 0
> >> + * - swap_count_continuation is required but could not be atomically allocated.
> >> + *   *entry is used to return swap entry to call add_swap_count_continuation().
> >> + *								      -> ENOMEM
> >> + * - otherwise same as __swap_duplicate()
> >>   */
> >> -int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry)
> >> +int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t *entry, int entry_size)
> >>  {
> >>  	int err = 0;
> >>  
> >> -	while (!err && __swap_duplicate(entry, 1) == -ENOMEM)
> >> -		err = add_swap_count_continuation(entry, GFP_ATOMIC);
> >> +	while (!err &&
> >> +	       (err = __swap_duplicate(entry, entry_size, 1)) == -ENOMEM)
> >> +		err = add_swap_count_continuation(*entry, GFP_ATOMIC);
> >>  	return err;
> >
> > Now we're returning any error we get from __swap_duplicate, apparently to
> > accommodate ENOTDIR later in the series, which is a change from the behavior
> > introduced in 570a335b8e22 ("swap_info: swap count continuations").  This might
> > belong in a separate patch given its potential for side effects.
> 
> I have checked all the calls of the function and found there will be no
> bad effect.  Do you have any side effect?

Before I was just being vaguely concerned about any unintended side effects,
but looking again, yes I do.

Now when swap_duplicate returns an error in copy_one_pte, copy_one_pte returns
a (potentially nonzero) entry.val, which copy_pte_range interprets
unconditionally as 'try adding a swap count continuation.'  Not what we want
for returns other than -ENOMEM.

So it might make sense to have a separate patch that changes swap_duplicate's
return and makes callers handle it.