linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.1 16/55] mm, swap: fix THP swap out

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Date:   Tue,  2 Jul 2019 10:01:24 +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, "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.1 16/55] mm, swap: fix THP swap out

From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

commit 1a5f439c7c02837d943e528d46501564d4226757 upstream.

0-Day test system reported some OOM regressions for several THP
(Transparent Huge Page) swap test cases.  These regressions are bisected
to 6861428921b5 ("block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256").  In the
commit, BIO_MAX_PAGES is set to 256 even when THP swap is enabled.  So the
bio_alloc(gfp_flags, 512) in get_swap_bio() may fail when swapping out
THP.  That causes the OOM.

As in the patch description of 6861428921b5 ("block: always define
BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256"), THP swap should use multi-page bvec to write THP
to swap space.  So the issue is fixed via doing that in get_swap_bio().

BTW: I remember I have checked the THP swap code when 6861428921b5
("block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256") was merged, and thought the
THP swap code needn't to be changed.  But apparently, I was wrong.  I
should have done this at that time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190624075515.31040-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: 6861428921b5 ("block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/page_io.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@
 static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags,
 				struct page *page, bio_end_io_t end_io)
 {
-	int i, nr = hpage_nr_pages(page);
 	struct bio *bio;
 
-	bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, nr);
+	bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, 1);
 	if (bio) {
 		struct block_device *bdev;
 
@@ -41,9 +40,7 @@ static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gf
 		bio->bi_iter.bi_sector <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
 		bio->bi_end_io = end_io;
 
-		for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
-			bio_add_page(bio, page + i, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
-		VM_BUG_ON(bio->bi_iter.bi_size != PAGE_SIZE * nr);
+		bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE * hpage_nr_pages(page), 0);
 	}
 	return bio;
 }