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From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
To: senozhatsky@chromium.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, minchan@kernel.org,
	ngupta@vflare.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	sjenning@redhat.com, ddstreet@ieee.org, vitaly.wool@konsulko.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] zsmalloc: Add ops fields to zs_pool to store evict handlers
Date: Mon,  7 Nov 2022 13:36:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221107213625.939660-1-nphamcs@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y2Htmak6+7b+6pBv@google.com>

Essentially, the zpool constructor allows us to set things up with a null
struct zpool, zpool_ops, or zpool_ops->evict, which we have to handle.  A
similar null-handling pattern can be observed in zbud (mm/zbud.c) and z3fold
(mm/z3fold.c) - see zbud_zpool_evict and zbud_zpool_create for e.g.

In particular:

1. pool->zpool_ops is the ops (containing the evict handler zpool_ops->evict)
passed into the zpool constructor (zs_zpool_create)

2. pool->ops/zs_zpool_ops (struct zs_ops) is a struct wrapping zs_zpool_evict,
which itself is a wrapper for the zpool evict handler (pool->zpool_ops->evict).
zs_zpool_evict also handles the case where zpool or zpool_ops is null, or
zpool_ops->evict is not defined (i.e return -ENOENT).

FWIW, I do think this is quite convoluted. In the long run, we might want to
simplify this design, but for this patch series I think it is wise to err on
the safe side and follow the other two allocators' design for consistency.

That said, while staring at the code again, I found a bug - in the case
pool->zpool_ops is null, pool->ops is undefined garbage. The v3 patch will fix
that to follow zbud's pattern (pool->ops = NULL in this case).


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-07 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-26 20:06 [PATCH 0/5] Implement writeback for zsmalloc Nhat Pham
2022-10-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] zswap: fix writeback lock ordering " Nhat Pham
2022-10-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] zsmalloc: Consolidate zs_pool's migrate_lock and size_class's locks Nhat Pham
2022-10-28 14:46   ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-02  3:28   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-02 21:36     ` Minchan Kim
2022-11-03 15:18       ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-03 15:53         ` Minchan Kim
2022-11-03 18:08           ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-03 18:10             ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-11-03 20:37               ` Minchan Kim
2022-11-03 20:46                 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-11-03 21:15                   ` Yu Zhao
2022-11-03 23:19                     ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-11-03 21:43                   ` Minchan Kim
2022-11-03 23:31                     ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-11-03 20:22             ` Minchan Kim
2022-11-04  3:58         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-07 21:31           ` Nhat Pham
2022-11-07 22:35             ` Minchan Kim
2022-10-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] zsmalloc: Add a LRU to zs_pool to keep track of zspages in LRU order Nhat Pham
2022-10-28 14:47   ` Johannes Weiner
2022-10-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] zsmalloc: Add ops fields to zs_pool to store evict handlers Nhat Pham
2022-10-28 15:18   ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-02  4:10   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-07 21:36     ` Nhat Pham [this message]
2022-10-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] zsmalloc: Implement writeback mechanism for zsmalloc Nhat Pham
2022-10-27 13:53   ` kernel test robot
2022-10-27 18:27     ` [PATCH v2 " Nhat Pham
2022-10-28 15:19       ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-02  3:42       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-03 15:26         ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-02  3:44       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-02  4:13       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-03 16:45         ` Johannes Weiner
2022-11-04  4:02           ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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