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Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2023 14:39:08 -0700
From:   Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
To:     Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@...il.com>
Cc:     vitaly.wool@...sulko.com, minchan@...nel.org,
        senozhatsky@...omium.org, yosryahmed@...gle.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, ddstreet@...e.org, sjenning@...hat.com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] mm: zswap: add pool shrinking mechanism

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 7:56 AM Domenico Cerasuolo
<cerasuolodomenico@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Each zpool driver (zbud, z3fold and zsmalloc) implements its own shrink
> function, which is called from zpool_shrink. However, with this commit,
> a unified shrink function is added to zswap. The ultimate goal is to
> eliminate the need for zpool_shrink once all zpool implementations have
> dropped their shrink code.
>
> To ensure the functionality of each commit, this change focuses solely
> on adding the mechanism itself. No modifications are made to
> the backends, meaning that functionally, there are no immediate changes.
> The zswap mechanism will only come into effect once the backends have
> removed their shrink code. The subsequent commits will address the
> modifications needed in the backends.
>
> Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@...il.com>
> ---
>  mm/zswap.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index bcb82e09eb64..c99bafcefecf 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ struct crypto_acomp_ctx {
>         struct mutex *mutex;
>  };
>
> +/*
> + * The lock ordering is zswap_tree.lock -> zswap_pool.lru_lock.
> + * The only case where lru_lock is not acquired while holding tree.lock is
> + * when a zswap_entry is taken off the lru for writeback, in that case it
> + * needs to be verified that it's still valid in the tree.
> + */
>  struct zswap_pool {
>         struct zpool *zpool;
>         struct crypto_acomp_ctx __percpu *acomp_ctx;
> @@ -159,6 +165,8 @@ struct zswap_pool {
>         struct work_struct shrink_work;
>         struct hlist_node node;
>         char tfm_name[CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME];
> +       struct list_head lru;
> +       spinlock_t lru_lock;
>  };
>
>  /*
> @@ -176,10 +184,12 @@ struct zswap_pool {
>   *            be held while changing the refcount.  Since the lock must
>   *            be held, there is no reason to also make refcount atomic.
>   * length - the length in bytes of the compressed page data.  Needed during
> - *          decompression. For a same value filled page length is 0.
> + *          decompression. For a same value filled page length is 0, and both
> + *          pool and lru are invalid and must be ignored.
>   * pool - the zswap_pool the entry's data is in
>   * handle - zpool allocation handle that stores the compressed page data
>   * value - value of the same-value filled pages which have same content
> + * lru - handle to the pool's lru used to evict pages.
>   */
>  struct zswap_entry {
>         struct rb_node rbnode;
> @@ -192,6 +202,7 @@ struct zswap_entry {
>                 unsigned long value;
>         };
>         struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
> +       struct list_head lru;
>  };
>
>  struct zswap_header {
> @@ -364,6 +375,12 @@ static void zswap_free_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry)
>         if (!entry->length)
>                 atomic_dec(&zswap_same_filled_pages);
>         else {
> +       /* zpool_evictable will be removed once all 3 backends have migrated */
> +               if (!zpool_evictable(entry->pool->zpool)) {
> +                       spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock);
> +                       list_del(&entry->lru);
> +                       spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock);
> +               }
>                 zpool_free(entry->pool->zpool, entry->handle);
>                 zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
>         }
> @@ -584,14 +601,70 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_find_get(char *type, char *compressor)
>         return NULL;
>  }
>
> +static int zswap_shrink(struct zswap_pool *pool)
> +{
> +       struct zswap_entry *lru_entry, *tree_entry = NULL;
> +       struct zswap_header *zhdr;
> +       struct zswap_tree *tree;
> +       int swpoffset;
> +       int ret;
> +
> +       /* get a reclaimable entry from LRU */
> +       spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock);
> +       if (list_empty(&pool->lru)) {
> +               spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock);
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       }
> +       lru_entry = list_last_entry(&pool->lru, struct zswap_entry, lru);
> +       list_del_init(&lru_entry->lru);
> +       zhdr = zpool_map_handle(pool->zpool, lru_entry->handle, ZPOOL_MM_RO);
> +       tree = zswap_trees[swp_type(zhdr->swpentry)];
> +       zpool_unmap_handle(pool->zpool, lru_entry->handle);
> +       /*
> +        * Once the pool lock is dropped, the lru_entry might get freed. The
> +        * swpoffset is copied to the stack, and lru_entry isn't deref'd again
> +        * until the entry is verified to still be alive in the tree.
> +        */
> +       swpoffset = swp_offset(zhdr->swpentry);
> +       spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock);
> +
> +       /* hold a reference from tree so it won't be freed during writeback */
> +       spin_lock(&tree->lock);
> +       tree_entry = zswap_entry_find_get(&tree->rbroot, swpoffset);
> +       if (tree_entry != lru_entry) {
> +               if (tree_entry)
> +                       zswap_entry_put(tree, tree_entry);
> +               spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> +               return -EAGAIN;
> +       }
> +       spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> +
> +       ret = zswap_writeback_entry(pool->zpool, lru_entry->handle);
> +
> +       spin_lock(&tree->lock);
> +       if (ret) {
> +               spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock);
> +               list_move(&lru_entry->lru, &pool->lru);
> +               spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock);
> +       }
> +       zswap_entry_put(tree, tree_entry);
> +       spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> +
> +       return ret ? -EAGAIN : 0;
> +}
> +
>  static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
>  {
>         struct zswap_pool *pool = container_of(w, typeof(*pool),
>                                                 shrink_work);
>         int ret, failures = 0;
>
> +       /* zpool_evictable will be removed once all 3 backends have migrated */
>         do {
> -               ret = zpool_shrink(pool->zpool, 1, NULL);
> +               if (zpool_evictable(pool->zpool))
> +                       ret = zpool_shrink(pool->zpool, 1, NULL);
> +               else
> +                       ret = zswap_shrink(pool);
>                 if (ret) {
>                         zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++;
>                         if (ret != -EAGAIN)
> @@ -655,6 +728,8 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor)
>          */
>         kref_init(&pool->kref);
>         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->list);
> +       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->lru);
> +       spin_lock_init(&pool->lru_lock);
>         INIT_WORK(&pool->shrink_work, shrink_worker);
>
>         zswap_pool_debug("created", pool);
> @@ -1270,7 +1345,7 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
>         }
>
>         /* store */
> -       hlen = zpool_evictable(entry->pool->zpool) ? sizeof(zhdr) : 0;
> +       hlen = sizeof(zhdr);
>         gfp = __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM;
>         if (zpool_malloc_support_movable(entry->pool->zpool))
>                 gfp |= __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE;
> @@ -1313,6 +1388,12 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
>                         zswap_entry_put(tree, dupentry);
>                 }
>         } while (ret == -EEXIST);
> +       /* zpool_evictable will be removed once all 3 backends have migrated */
> +       if (entry->length && !zpool_evictable(entry->pool->zpool)) {
> +               spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock);
> +               list_add(&entry->lru, &entry->pool->lru);
> +               spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock);
> +       }
>         spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
>
>         /* update stats */
> @@ -1384,8 +1465,7 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_load(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
>         /* decompress */
>         dlen = PAGE_SIZE;
>         src = zpool_map_handle(entry->pool->zpool, entry->handle, ZPOOL_MM_RO);
> -       if (zpool_evictable(entry->pool->zpool))
> -               src += sizeof(struct zswap_header);
> +       src += sizeof(struct zswap_header);
>
>         if (!zpool_can_sleep_mapped(entry->pool->zpool)) {
>                 memcpy(tmp, src, entry->length);
> @@ -1415,6 +1495,12 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_load(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset,
>  freeentry:
>         spin_lock(&tree->lock);
>         zswap_entry_put(tree, entry);
> +       /* zpool_evictable will be removed once all 3 backends have migrated */
> +       if (entry->length && !zpool_evictable(entry->pool->zpool)) {
> +               spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock);
> +               list_move(&entry->lru, &entry->pool->lru);
> +               spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock);
> +       }
>         spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
>
>         return ret;
> --
> 2.34.1
>

Looks real solid to me! Thanks, Domenico.
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>

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