Re: [patch v2] drivers/zram: Don't disable preemption in zcomp_stream_get/put()

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Oct 20 2016 - 07:02:07 EST


On 2016-10-19 17:56:30 [+0200], Mike Galbraith wrote:
> In v4.7, the driver switched to percpu compression streams, disabling
> preemption vai get/put_cpu_ptr(). Use a local lock instead for RT.

since you could have multiple streams which would be then serialized
with the local lock I went for this:

From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:15:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/zram: Don't disable preemption in
zcomp_stream_get/put()

In v4.7, the driver switched to percpu compression streams, disabling
preemption via get/put_cpu_ptr(). Use a per-zcomp_strm lock here. We
also have to fix an lock order issue in zram_decompress_page() such
that zs_map_object() nests inside of zcomp_stream_put() as it does in
zram_bvec_write().

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx>
[bigeasy: get_locked_var() -> per zcomp_strm lock]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 12 ++++++++++--
drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h | 1 +
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -118,12 +118,19 @@ ssize_t zcomp_available_show(const char

struct zcomp_strm *zcomp_stream_get(struct zcomp *comp)
{
- return *get_cpu_ptr(comp->stream);
+ struct zcomp_strm *zstrm;
+
+ zstrm = *this_cpu_ptr(comp->stream);
+ spin_lock(&zstrm->zcomp_lock);
+ return zstrm;
}

void zcomp_stream_put(struct zcomp *comp)
{
- put_cpu_ptr(comp->stream);
+ struct zcomp_strm *zstrm;
+
+ zstrm = *this_cpu_ptr(comp->stream);
+ spin_unlock(&zstrm->zcomp_lock);
}

int zcomp_compress(struct zcomp_strm *zstrm,
@@ -174,6 +181,7 @@ static int __zcomp_cpu_notifier(struct z
pr_err("Can't allocate a compression stream\n");
return NOTIFY_BAD;
}
+ spin_lock_init(&zstrm->zcomp_lock);
*per_cpu_ptr(comp->stream, cpu) = zstrm;
break;
case CPU_DEAD:
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct zcomp_strm {
/* compression/decompression buffer */
void *buffer;
struct crypto_comp *tfm;
+ spinlock_t zcomp_lock;
};

/* dynamic per-device compression frontend */
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct z
struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
unsigned long handle;
unsigned int size;
+ struct zcomp_strm *zstrm;

zram_lock_table(&meta->table[index]);
handle = meta->table[index].handle;
@@ -579,16 +580,15 @@ static int zram_decompress_page(struct z
return 0;
}

+ zstrm = zcomp_stream_get(zram->comp);
cmem = zs_map_object(meta->mem_pool, handle, ZS_MM_RO);
if (size == PAGE_SIZE) {
copy_page(mem, cmem);
} else {
- struct zcomp_strm *zstrm = zcomp_stream_get(zram->comp);
-
ret = zcomp_decompress(zstrm, cmem, size, mem);
- zcomp_stream_put(zram->comp);
}
zs_unmap_object(meta->mem_pool, handle);
+ zcomp_stream_put(zram->comp);
zram_unlock_table(&meta->table[index]);

/* Should NEVER happen. Return bio error if it does. */

Sebastian