On (08/09/19 11:17), Henry Burns wrote:
> In zs_destroy_pool() we call flush_work(&pool->free_work). However, we
> have no guarantee that migration isn't happening in the background
> at that time.
>
> Since migration can't directly free pages, it relies on free_work
> being scheduled to free the pages. But there's nothing preventing an
> in-progress migrate from queuing the work *after*
> zs_unregister_migration() has called flush_work(). Which would mean
> pages still pointing at the inode when we free it.
>
> Since we know at destroy time all objects should be free, no new
> migrations can come in (since zs_page_isolate() fails for fully-free
> zspages). This means it is sufficient to track a "# isolated zspages"
> count by class, and have the destroy logic ensure all such pages have
> drained before proceeding. Keeping that state under the class
> spinlock keeps the logic straightforward.
>
> Fixes: 48b4800a1c6a ("zsmalloc: page migration support")
> Signed-off-by: Henry Burns <henryburns@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
+ Andrew
-ss
