Re: [PATCH -next v3 1/5] frontswap: skip frontswap_ops init if zswap init failed.

[Liu Shixin]

On 2022/8/29 4:44, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 12:12 PM Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If zswap initial failed or has not been initial, frontswap_ops will be
>> NULL. In such situation, swap device would enable failed with following
>> stack trace:
>>
>>   Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000000
>>   Mem abort info:
>>     ESR = 0x0000000096000004
>>     EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>>     SET = 0, FnV = 0
>>     EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
>>     FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
>>   Data abort info:
>>     ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
>>     CM = 0, WnR = 0
>>   user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000020a4fab000
>>   [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
>>   Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
>>   Modules linked in: zram fsl_dpaa2_eth pcs_lynx phylink ahci_qoriq crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sbsa_gwdt fsl_mc_dpio nvme lm90 nvme_core at803x xhci_plat_hcd rtc_fsl_ftm_alarm xgmac_mdio ahci_platform i2c_imx ip6_tables ip_tables fuse
>>   Unloaded tainted modules: cppc_cpufreq():1
>>   CPU: 10 PID: 761 Comm: swapon Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-00454-g22100432cf14 #1
>>   Hardware name: SolidRun Ltd. SolidRun CEX7 Platform, BIOS EDK II Jun 21 2022
>>   pstate: 00400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>>   pc : frontswap_init+0x38/0x60
>>   lr : __do_sys_swapon+0x8a8/0x9f4
>>   sp : ffff80000969bcf0
>>   x29: ffff80000969bcf0 x28: ffff37bee0d8fc00 x27: ffff80000a7f5000
>>   x26: fffffcdefb971e80 x25: ffffaba797453b90 x24: 0000000000000064
>>   x23: ffff37c1f209d1a8 x22: ffff37bee880e000 x21: ffffaba797748560
>>   x20: ffff37bee0d8fce4 x19: ffffaba797748488 x18: 0000000000000014
>>   x17: 0000000030ec029a x16: ffffaba795a479b0 x15: 0000000000000000
>>   x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000030 x12: 0000000000000001
>>   x11: ffff37c63c0aba18 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffaba7956b8c88
>>   x8 : ffff80000969bcd0 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
>>   x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffffaba79730f000
>>   x2 : ffff37bee0d8fc00 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
>>   Call trace:
>>   frontswap_init+0x38/0x60
>>   __do_sys_swapon+0x8a8/0x9f4
>>   __arm64_sys_swapon+0x28/0x3c
>>   invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100
>>   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd4/0xf4
>>   do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c
>>   el0_svc+0x34/0x10c
>>   el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
>>   el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
>>   Code: d000e283 910003fd f9006c41 f946d461 (f9400021)
>>   ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>>
> Well, this issue you are seeing is in fact introduced by the following patch:
>
> author Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> 2022-01-21 22:15:10 -0800
> frontswap: remove support for multiple ops
>
> So I would rather see that one reverted and fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Vitaly
It is surely introduced by the previous patch ,but is it need to revert that patch? Do we have
any plans to add new backend in the future?

Thanks,
>
>> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  mm/frontswap.c | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
>> index 1a97610308cb..620f95af81dd 100644
>> --- a/mm/frontswap.c
>> +++ b/mm/frontswap.c
>> @@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ void frontswap_init(unsigned type, unsigned long *map)
>>          * p->frontswap set to something valid to work properly.
>>          */
>>         frontswap_map_set(sis, map);
>> -       frontswap_ops->init(type);
>> +       if (frontswap_ops)
>> +               frontswap_ops->init(type);
>>  }
>>
>>  static bool __frontswap_test(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>
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