The patch titled Subject: mm: support anonymous stable page has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: support anonymous stable page For developemnt for zram-swap asynchronous writeback, I found strange corruption of compressed page. With investigation, it reveals currently stable page doesn't support anonymous page. IOW, reuse_swap_page can reuse the page without waiting writeback completion so that it can corrupt data during zram compression. It can affect every swap device which supports asynchronous writeback and CRC checking as well as zRAM. Unfortunately, reuse_swap_page should be atomic so that we cannot wait on writeback in there so the approach in this patch is simply return false if we found it needs stable page. Although it increases memory footprint temporarily, it happens rarely and it should be reclaimed easily althoug it happened. Also, It would be better than waiting of IO completion, which is critial path for application latency. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161111060644.GA24342@bbox Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: yjay.kim <yjay.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swapfile.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~mm-support-anonymous-stable-page mm/swapfile.c --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-support-anonymous-stable-page +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -943,11 +943,21 @@ bool reuse_swap_page(struct page *page, count = page_trans_huge_mapcount(page, total_mapcount); if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page)) { count += page_swapcount(page); - if (count == 1 && !PageWriteback(page)) { + if (count != 1) + goto out; + if (!PageWriteback(page)) { delete_from_swap_cache(page); SetPageDirty(page); + } else { + struct address_space *mapping; + + mapping = page_mapping(page); + if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required( + inode_to_bdi(mapping->host))) + return false; } } +out: return count <= 1; } @@ -2180,6 +2190,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_sw static int claim_swapfile(struct swap_info_struct *p, struct inode *inode) { int error; + struct address_space *swapper_space; if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) { p->bdev = bdgrab(I_BDEV(inode)); @@ -2202,6 +2213,9 @@ static int claim_swapfile(struct swap_in } else return -EINVAL; + swapper_space = &swapper_spaces[p->type]; + swapper_space->host = inode; + return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-dont-steal-highatomic-pageblock.patch mm-prevent-double-decrease-of-nr_reserved_highatomic.patch mm-try-to-exhaust-highatomic-reserve-before-the-oom.patch mm-make-unreserve-highatomic-functions-reliable.patch mm-support-anonymous-stable-page.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html