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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2015-02-12 15:00:45 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-12 18:54:12 -0800
commit08eee69fcf6baea543a2b4d2a2fcba0e61aa3160 (patch)
treeeda2eb79414a825fea6d87f9d0c466b51ea42286 /mm/zswap.c
parent2b269ce6fcbfafc6cae37254cab4bf2309bfed0e (diff)
downloadlinux-08eee69fcf6baea543a2b4d2a2fcba0e61aa3160.tar.bz2
zram: remove init_lock in zram_make_request
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_hotplug from kmem_cache_destroy during working 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, add atomic refcount for meta lifetime management and completion to free meta in process context. It's important to free meta in process context because some of resource destruction needs mutex lock, which could be held if we releases the resource in reclaim context so it's deadlock, again. As a bonus, we could remove init_done check in rw path because zram_meta_get will do a role for it, instead. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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