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Commit 3c9959e0 authored by Minchan Kim's avatar Minchan Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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zram: fix lockdep warning of free block handling

Patch series "zram idle page writeback", v3.

Inherently, swap device has many idle pages which are rare touched since
it was allocated.  It is never problem if we use storage device as swap.
However, it's just waste for zram-swap.

This patchset supports zram idle page writeback feature.

* Admin can define what is idle page "no access since X time ago"
* Admin can define when zram should writeback them
* Admin can define when zram should stop writeback to prevent wearout

Details are in each patch's description.

This patch (of 7):

  ================================
  WARNING: inconsistent lock state
  4.19.0+ #390 Not tainted
  --------------------------------
  inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
  zram_verify/2095 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
  00000000b1828693 (&(&zram->bitmap_lock)->rlock){+.?.}, at: put_entry_bdev+0x1e/0x50
  {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
    _raw_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40
    zram_make_request+0x755/0xdc9
    generic_make_request+0x373/0x6a0
    submit_bio+0x6c/0x140
    __swap_writepage+0x3a8/0x480
    shrink_page_list+0x1102/0x1a60
    shrink_inactive_list+0x21b/0x3f0
    shrink_node_memcg.constprop.99+0x4f8/0x7e0
    shrink_node+0x7d/0x2f0
    do_try_to_free_pages+0xe0/0x300
    try_to_free_pages+0x116/0x2b0
    __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x3f4/0xf80
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2a2/0x2f0
    __handle_mm_fault+0x42e/0xb50
    handle_mm_fault+0x55/0xb0
    __do_page_fault+0x235/0x4b0
    page_fault+0x1e/0x30
  irq event stamp: 228412
  hardirqs last  enabled at (228412): [<ffffffff98245846>] __slab_free+0x3e6/0x600
  hardirqs last disabled at (228411): [<ffffffff98245625>] __slab_free+0x1c5/0x600
  softirqs last  enabled at (228396): [<ffffffff98e0031e>] __do_softirq+0x31e/0x427
  softirqs last disabled at (228403): [<ffffffff98072051>] irq_exit+0xd1/0xe0

  other info that might help us debug this:
   Possible unsafe locking scenario:

         CPU0
         ----
    lock(&(&zram->bitmap_lock)->rlock);
    <Interrupt>
      lock(&(&zram->bitmap_lock)->rlock);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  no locks held by zram_verify/2095.

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 5 PID: 2095 Comm: zram_verify Not tainted 4.19.0+ #390
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   dump_stack+0x67/0x9b
   print_usage_bug+0x1bd/0x1d3
   mark_lock+0x4aa/0x540
   __lock_acquire+0x51d/0x1300
   lock_acquire+0x90/0x180
   _raw_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40
   put_entry_bdev+0x1e/0x50
   zram_free_page+0xf6/0x110
   zram_slot_free_notify+0x42/0xa0
   end_swap_bio_read+0x5b/0x170
   blk_update_request+0x8f/0x340
   scsi_end_request+0x2c/0x1e0
   scsi_io_completion+0x98/0x650
   blk_done_softirq+0x9e/0xd0
   __do_softirq+0xcc/0x427
   irq_exit+0xd1/0xe0
   do_IRQ+0x93/0x120
   common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
   </IRQ>

With writeback feature, zram_slot_free_notify could be called in softirq
context by end_swap_bio_read.  However, bitmap_lock is not aware of that
so lockdep yell out:

  get_entry_bdev
  spin_lock(bitmap->lock);
  irq
  softirq
  end_swap_bio_read
  zram_slot_free_notify
  zram_slot_lock <-- deadlock prone
  zram_free_page
  put_entry_bdev
  spin_lock(bitmap->lock); <-- deadlock prone

With akpm's suggestion (i.e.  bitmap operation is already atomic), we
could remove bitmap lock.  It might fail to find a empty slot if serious
contention happens.  However, it's not severe problem because huge page
writeback has already possiblity to fail if there is severe memory
pressure.  Worst case is just keeping the incompressible in memory, not
storage.

The other problem is zram_slot_lock in zram_slot_slot_free_notify.  To
make it safe is this patch introduces zram_slot_trylock where
zram_slot_free_notify uses it.  Although it's rare to be contented, this
patch adds new debug stat "miss_free" to keep monitoring how often it
happens.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127055429.251614-2-minchan@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent fed84c78
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