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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/3] mm/zswap bugfix: memory leaks and other problems
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:19:36PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
>> This patch series fix a few bugs in mm/zswap based on Linux-3.11.
>>
>> v2 --> v3
>> - keep GFP_KERNEL flag
>
> Why do you drop this?
>
> It's plain BUG. I read Bob's reply but it couldn't justify to let the pain
> remain. First of all, let's fix it and better idea could come later.

Hi, Minchan. Thanks for review

What I thought is that better idea could come sooner if I keep this
flag rather than fixing it

Yes, you are right. Fixing a bug has a higher priority than waiting
for better idea.

I will add it again in the next version patch set.

>>
>> v1 --> v2
>> - free memory in zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area(in patch 1)
>> - fix whitespace corruption (line wrapping)
>>
>> Corresponding mail thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/18/59
>>
>> These issues fixed/optimized are:
>>
>> 1. memory leaks when re-swapon
>>
>> 2. memory leaks when invalidate and reclaim occur concurrently
>>
>> 3. avoid unnecessary page scanning
>>
>>
>> Issues discussed in that mail thread NOT fixed as it happens rarely or
>> not a big problem or controversial:
>>
>> 1. a "theoretical race condition" when reclaim page
>> When a handle alloced from zbud, zbud considers this handle is used
>> validly by upper(zswap) and can be a candidate for reclaim. But zswap has
>> to initialize it such as setting swapentry and adding it to rbtree.
>> so there is a race condition, such as:
>> thread 0: obtain handle x from zbud_alloc
>> thread 1: zbud_reclaim_page is called
>> thread 1: callback zswap_writeback_entry to reclaim handle x
>> thread 1: get swpentry from handle x (it is random value now)
>> thread 1: bad thing may happen
>> thread 0: initialize handle x with swapentry
>>
>> 2. frontswap_map bitmap not cleared after zswap reclaim
>> Frontswap uses frontswap_map bitmap to track page in "backend" implementation,
>> when zswap reclaim a page, the corresponding bitmap record is not cleared.
>>
>> 3. the potential that zswap store and reclaim functions called recursively
>>
>>
>> mm/zswap.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
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> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim


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