Re: [PATCH -mm -V2] mm, swap: Fix THP swap out

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:55:15PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> 
> 0-Day test system reported some OOM regressions for several
> THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap test cases.  These regressions are
> bisected to 6861428921b5 ("block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as
> 256").  In the commit, BIO_MAX_PAGES is set to 256 even when THP swap
> is enabled.  So the bio_alloc(gfp_flags, 512) in get_swap_bio() may
> fail when swapping out THP.  That causes the OOM.
> 
> As in the patch description of 6861428921b5 ("block: always define
> BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256"), THP swap should use multi-page bvec to write
> THP to swap space.  So the issue is fixed via doing that in
> get_swap_bio().
> 
> BTW: I remember I have checked the THP swap code when
> 6861428921b5 ("block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256") was merged,
> and thought the THP swap code needn't to be changed.  But apparently,
> I was wrong.  I should have done this at that time.
> 
> Fixes: 6861428921b5 ("block: always define BIO_MAX_PAGES as 256")
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
> 
> Changelogs:
> 
> V2:
> 
> - Replace __bio_add_page() with bio_add_page() per Ming's comments.
> 
> ---
>  mm/page_io.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
> index 2e8019d0e048..189415852077 100644
> --- a/mm/page_io.c
> +++ b/mm/page_io.c
> @@ -29,10 +29,9 @@
>  static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags,
>  				struct page *page, bio_end_io_t end_io)
>  {
> -	int i, nr = hpage_nr_pages(page);
>  	struct bio *bio;
>  
> -	bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, nr);
> +	bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, 1);
>  	if (bio) {
>  		struct block_device *bdev;
>  
> @@ -41,9 +40,7 @@ static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags,
>  		bio->bi_iter.bi_sector <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
>  		bio->bi_end_io = end_io;
>  
> -		for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
> -			bio_add_page(bio, page + i, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> -		VM_BUG_ON(bio->bi_iter.bi_size != PAGE_SIZE * nr);
> +		bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE * hpage_nr_pages(page), 0);
>  	}
>  	return bio;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

Looks fine:

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Ming