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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:11:37 +0200
From:   Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.com>
To:     Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
Cc:     Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v3 1/5] frontswap: skip frontswap_ops init if zswap
 init failed.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:11 AM Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022/8/29 4:44, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 12:12 PM Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com> wrote:
> >> If zswap initial failed or has not been initial, frontswap_ops will be
> >> NULL. In such situation, swap device would enable failed with following
> >> stack trace:
> >>
> >>   Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000000
> >>   Mem abort info:
> >>     ESR = 0x0000000096000004
> >>     EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> >>     SET = 0, FnV = 0
> >>     EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> >>     FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
> >>   Data abort info:
> >>     ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
> >>     CM = 0, WnR = 0
> >>   user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000020a4fab000
> >>   [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
> >>   Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
> >>   Modules linked in: zram fsl_dpaa2_eth pcs_lynx phylink ahci_qoriq crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sbsa_gwdt fsl_mc_dpio nvme lm90 nvme_core at803x xhci_plat_hcd rtc_fsl_ftm_alarm xgmac_mdio ahci_platform i2c_imx ip6_tables ip_tables fuse
> >>   Unloaded tainted modules: cppc_cpufreq():1
> >>   CPU: 10 PID: 761 Comm: swapon Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-00454-g22100432cf14 #1
> >>   Hardware name: SolidRun Ltd. SolidRun CEX7 Platform, BIOS EDK II Jun 21 2022
> >>   pstate: 00400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> >>   pc : frontswap_init+0x38/0x60
> >>   lr : __do_sys_swapon+0x8a8/0x9f4
> >>   sp : ffff80000969bcf0
> >>   x29: ffff80000969bcf0 x28: ffff37bee0d8fc00 x27: ffff80000a7f5000
> >>   x26: fffffcdefb971e80 x25: ffffaba797453b90 x24: 0000000000000064
> >>   x23: ffff37c1f209d1a8 x22: ffff37bee880e000 x21: ffffaba797748560
> >>   x20: ffff37bee0d8fce4 x19: ffffaba797748488 x18: 0000000000000014
> >>   x17: 0000000030ec029a x16: ffffaba795a479b0 x15: 0000000000000000
> >>   x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000030 x12: 0000000000000001
> >>   x11: ffff37c63c0aba18 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffaba7956b8c88
> >>   x8 : ffff80000969bcd0 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
> >>   x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffffaba79730f000
> >>   x2 : ffff37bee0d8fc00 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
> >>   Call trace:
> >>   frontswap_init+0x38/0x60
> >>   __do_sys_swapon+0x8a8/0x9f4
> >>   __arm64_sys_swapon+0x28/0x3c
> >>   invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100
> >>   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd4/0xf4
> >>   do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c
> >>   el0_svc+0x34/0x10c
> >>   el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
> >>   el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
> >>   Code: d000e283 910003fd f9006c41 f946d461 (f9400021)
> >>   ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> >>
> > Well, this issue you are seeing is in fact introduced by the following patch:
> >
> > author Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> 2022-01-21 22:15:10 -0800
> > frontswap: remove support for multiple ops
> >
> > So I would rather see that one reverted and fixed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vitaly
> It is surely introduced by the previous patch ,but is it need to revert that patch? Do we have
> any plans to add new backend in the future?

I believe we do. Besides, this patch introduces the bug you have hit,
before this patch frontswap just wouldn't go doing anything on an
empty list.
It's my bad I didn't NAK that patch then, but we have an opportunity
to do it the right way now.

Thanks,
Vitaly

> Thanks,
> >
> >> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
> >> ---
> >>  mm/frontswap.c | 3 ++-
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
> >> index 1a97610308cb..620f95af81dd 100644
> >> --- a/mm/frontswap.c
> >> +++ b/mm/frontswap.c
> >> @@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ void frontswap_init(unsigned type, unsigned long *map)
> >>          * p->frontswap set to something valid to work properly.
> >>          */
> >>         frontswap_map_set(sis, map);
> >> -       frontswap_ops->init(type);
> >> +       if (frontswap_ops)
> >> +               frontswap_ops->init(type);
> >>  }
> >>
> >>  static bool __frontswap_test(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
> >> --
> >> 2.25.1
> >>
> > .
> >
>