linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH next] mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang

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Date:   Mon, 23 May 2022 09:50:34 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang

On 2022/5/22 10:53, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Shmem swapoff makes no progress: the index to indices is not incremented.

Yes, there would be a infinite loop in the while loop in shmem_unuse_inode().

> But "ret" is no longer a return value, so use folio_batch_count() instead.
> 
> Fixes: da08e9b79323 ("mm/shmem: convert shmem_swapin_page() to shmem_swapin_folio()")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

This patch looks good to me! Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Tested-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>

BTW: When I try to fix infinite loop when swap in shmem error at swapoff time, I also found this
issue last Saturday [1]. ;)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/0f6dc98b-88f4-c0c9-eb7b-5356ad0e08b1@huawei.com/

> ---
> 
>  mm/shmem.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1171,7 +1171,6 @@ static int shmem_find_swap_entries(struc
>  	XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, start);
>  	struct folio *folio;
>  	swp_entry_t entry;
> -	unsigned int ret = 0;
>  
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	xas_for_each(&xas, folio, ULONG_MAX) {
> @@ -1189,7 +1188,7 @@ static int shmem_find_swap_entries(struc
>  		if (swp_type(entry) != type)
>  			continue;
>  
> -		indices[ret] = xas.xa_index;
> +		indices[folio_batch_count(fbatch)] = xas.xa_index;
>  		if (!folio_batch_add(fbatch, folio))
>  			break;
>  
> 
> .
>