On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:56:51PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (01/28/15 17:15), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Admin could reset zram during I/O operation going on so we have
> > used zram->init_lock as read-side lock in I/O path to prevent
> > sudden zram meta freeing.
> >
> > However, the init_lock is really troublesome.
> > We can't do call zram_meta_alloc under init_lock due to lockdep splat
> > because zram_rw_page is one of the function under reclaim path and
> > hold it as read_lock while other places in process context hold it
> > as write_lock. So, we have used allocation out of the lock to avoid
> > lockdep warn but it's not good for readability and fainally, I met
> > another lockdep splat between init_lock and cpu_hotpulug from
> > kmem_cache_destroy during wokring zsmalloc compaction. :(
> >
> > Yes, the ideal is to remove horrible init_lock of zram in rw path.
> > This patch removes it in rw path and instead, put init_done bool
> > variable to check initialization done with smp_[wmb|rmb] and
> > srcu_[un]read_lock to prevent sudden zram meta freeing
> > during I/O operation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 +++
> > 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > index a598ada817f0..b33add453027 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> > #include <linux/string.h>
> > #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> > #include <linux/err.h>
> > +#include <linux/srcu.h>
> >
> > #include "zram_drv.h"
> >
> > @@ -53,9 +54,31 @@ static ssize_t name##_show(struct device *d, \
> > } \
> > static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name);
> >
> > -static inline int init_done(struct zram *zram)
> > +static inline bool init_done(struct zram *zram)
> > {
> > - return zram->meta != NULL;
> > + /*
> > + * init_done can be used without holding zram->init_lock in
> > + * read/write handler(ie, zram_make_request) but we should make sure
> > + * that zram->init_done should set up after meta initialization is
> > + * done. Look at setup_init_done.
> > + */
> > + bool ret = zram->init_done;
>
> I don't like re-introduced ->init_done.
> another idea... how about using `zram->disksize == 0' instead of
> `->init_done' (previously `->meta != NULL')? should do the trick.
It could be.
>
>
> and I'm not sure I get this rmb...
What makes you not sure?
I think it's clear and common pattern for smp_[wmb|rmb]. :)
>
> -ss
--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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