Hello,
free_zspage() has to hold locks of all pages, since zs_page_migrate()
path rely on this page lock to protect the race between zs_free() and
it, so it can safely get zspage from page->private.
But this way is not good and simple enough:
1. Since zs_free() couldn't be sleepable, it can only trylock pages,
or has to kick_deferred_free() to defer that to a work.
2. Even in the worker context, async_free_zspage() can't simply
lock all pages in lock_zspage(), it's still trylock because of
the race between zs_free() and zs_page_migrate(). Please see
the commit 2505a981114d ("zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous
zspage free and page migration") for details.
Actually, all free_zspage() needs is to get zspage from page safely,
we can use RCU to achieve it easily. Then free_zspage() don't need to
hold locks of all pages, so don't need the deferred free mechanism
at all. This patchset implements it and remove all of deferred free
related code.
Thanks for review and comments!
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Chengming Zhou (2):
mm/zsmalloc: don't hold locks of all pages when free_zspage()
mm/zsmalloc: remove the deferred free mechanism
mm/zsmalloc.c | 206 ++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
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base-commit: ccbd06e764bac9bbf6b4e91c700fe6dd28f08fb3
change-id: 20240226-zsmalloc-zspage-rcu-b2c12f054fb4
Best regards,
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Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
