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From: "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	"Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	NitinGupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"tiantao (H)" <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] zsmalloc: do not use bit_spin_lock
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:06:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d0d4a3576e74d128d7849342a7e9faf@hisilicon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM4kBBJjCYX0DQZ8de9LsFV6L+eF4tZe-NN=jiAz9WLWYrsCsQ@mail.gmail.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitaly Wool [mailto:vitaly.wool@konsulko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:44 PM
> To: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>; Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>; Mike
> Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>; LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; linux-mm
> <linux-mm@kvack.org>; Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>;
> NitinGupta <ngupta@vflare.org>; Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>; Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; tiantao (H) <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: do not use bit_spin_lock
> 
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 03:11 Song Bao Hua (Barry Song),
> <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 3:03 PM
> > > To: 'Vitaly Wool' <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
> > > Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>; Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>;
> Mike
> > > Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>; LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; linux-mm
> > > <linux-mm@kvack.org>; Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>;
> > > NitinGupta <ngupta@vflare.org>; Sergey Senozhatsky
> > > <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>; Andrew Morton
> > > <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; tiantao (H) <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
> > > Subject: RE: [PATCH] zsmalloc: do not use bit_spin_lock
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm still not convinced. Will kmap what, src? At this point src might
> become
> > > just a bogus pointer.
> > >
> > > As long as the memory is still there, we can kmap it by its page struct.
> But
> > > if
> > > it is not there anymore, we have no way.
> > >
> > > > Why couldn't the object have been moved somewhere else (due to the compaction
> > > mechanism for instance)
> > > > at the time DMA kicks in?
> > >
> > > So zs_map_object() will guarantee the src won't be moved by holding those
> > > preemption-disabled lock?
> > > If so, it seems we have to drop the MOVABLE gfp in zswap for zsmalloc case?
> > >
> >
> > Or we can do get_page() to avoid the movement of the page.
> 
> 
> I would like to discuss this more in zswap context than zsmalloc's.
> Since zsmalloc does not implement reclaim callback, using it in zswap
> is a corner case anyway.

I see. But it seems we still need a solution for the compatibility
of zsmalloc and zswap? this will require change in either zsmalloc
or zswap. 
or do you want to make zswap depend on !ZSMALLOC?

> 
> zswap, on the other hand, may be dealing with some new backends in
> future which have more chances to become mainstream. Imagine typical
> NUMA-like cases, i. e. a zswap pool allocated in some kind SRAM, or in
> unused video memory. In such a case if you try to use a pointer to an
> invalidated zpool mapping, you are on the way to thrash the system.
> So: no assumptions that the zswap pool is in regular linear RAM should
> be made.
> 
> ~Vitaly

Thanks
Barry

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-22 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-19 10:04 [patch] zswap: fix zswap_frontswap_load() vs zsmalloc::map/unmap() might_sleep() splat Mike Galbraith
2020-12-19 10:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-19 10:20   ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-19 10:27     ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-19 10:46       ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-19 10:59         ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-19 11:03           ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-20  0:22           ` [PATCH] zsmalloc: do not use bit_spin_lock Vitaly Wool
2020-12-20  1:18             ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-20  7:21               ` Vitaly Wool
2021-01-14 16:17                 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-12-20  1:23             ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-20  4:11               ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-20  7:47               ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-20 21:20                 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-20 22:10                   ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-20  1:56             ` Mike Galbraith
2020-12-21 17:24             ` Minchan Kim
2020-12-21 19:20               ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-21 19:50                 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-12-21 20:05                   ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-21 21:02                     ` Shakeel Butt
2020-12-21 21:25                       ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-21 22:11                         ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-21 22:42                           ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-21 23:35                           ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-22  0:59                             ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-22  1:10                               ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-22  1:42                               ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-22  1:57                                 ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-22  2:07                                   ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-22  2:10                                   ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-22  9:44                                     ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-22 21:06                                       ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) [this message]
2020-12-23  0:11                                         ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-23 12:44                                           ` tiantao (H)
2020-12-23 18:25                                             ` Vitaly Wool
2021-01-14 16:18                                               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2021-01-14 16:29                                                 ` Vitaly Wool
2021-01-14 16:56                                                   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2021-01-14 17:15                                                     ` Vitaly Wool
2021-01-14 17:18                                                       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-12-21 22:46                         ` Shakeel Butt
2020-12-21 23:02                           ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-12-22  9:20                             ` David Laight
2020-12-22  9:32                               ` Vitaly Wool
2020-12-21 20:22                 ` Minchan Kim

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