linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] swap: fix do_swap

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Message-ID: <26c15777-d775-967b-3ddf-1db983154053@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:20:37 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        <mhocko@...e.com>, <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>, <willy@...radead.org>,
        <minchan@...nel.org>, <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        <hughd@...gle.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] swap: fix do_swap_page() race with swapoff

On 2021/4/14 9:04, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com> writes:
> 
>> On 4/12/21 6:27 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This isn't the commit that introduces the race.  You can use `git blame`
>>> find out the correct commit.  For this it's commit 0bcac06f27d7 "mm,
>>> swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device".
>>>
>>> And I suggest to merge 1/5 and 2/5 to make it easy to get the full
>>> picture.
>>
>> I'll suggest make fix to do_swap_page race with get/put_swap_device
>> as a first patch. Then the per_cpu_ref stuff in patch 1 and patch 2 can
>> be combined together.
> 
> The original get/put_swap_device() use rcu_read_lock/unlock().  I don't
> think it's good to wrap swap_read_page() with it.  After all, some
> complex operations are done in swap_read_page(), including
> blk_io_schedule().
> 

The patch was split to make it easier to review originally, i.e. 1/5 introduces
the percpu_ref to swap and 2/5 uses it to fix the race between do_swap_page()
and swapoff.
Btw, I have no preference for merging 1/5 and 2/5 or not.

> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying
> .
>