Re: boot warnings due to swap: make each swap partition have one address_space

Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27T21:40:42Z

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 06:16:05PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:45:57PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > >
> > > Subject: give-each-swapper-space-separate-backing_dev_info
> > >
> > > The backing_dev_info can't be shared by all swapper address space.
> >
> > Whyever not? It's perfectly normal for different inodes/address_spaces
> > to share a single backing_dev! Sasha's trace says that it's wrong to
> > initialize it MAX_SWAPFILES times: fair enough. But why should I now
> > want to spend 32kB (not even counting their __percpu counters) on all
> > these pseudo-backing_devs?
>
> That's correct, silly me. Updated it.

Looks much more to my taste, thank you!

> >
> > p.s. a grand little change would be to move page_cluster and swap_setup()
> > from mm/swap.c to mm/swap_state.c: they have nothing to do with the other
> > contents of swap.c, and everything to do with the contents of swap_state.c.
> > Why swap.c is called swap.c is rather a mystery.
>
> Tried, but looks page_cluster is used in sysctl, moving to swap_state.c will
> make it optional. don't want to add another #ifdef, so give up.

Good point, thanks for trying, maybe I'll attack it next time it
irritates me.

I don't yet know whether I approve of your changes or not, but running
with them to see (and I'll send another bugfix separately in a moment).

I was the one who removed the swap_device_lock() which 2.4 used,
because it almost always ended up having to take both swap_list_lock()
and swap_device_lock(si). You seem to have done a much better job of
separating them usefully, but I need to convince myself that it does
end up safely.

My reservations so far would be: how many installations actually have
more than one swap area, so is it a good tradeoff to add more overhead
to help those at the (slight) expense of everyone else? The increasingly
ugly page_mapping() worries me, and the static array of swapper_spaces
annoys me a little.

I'm glad Minchan has now pointed you to Rik's posting of two years ago:
I think there are more important changes to be made in that direction.

Hugh

>
>
> Subject: init-swap-space-backing-dev-info-once
>
>
> Sasha reported:
> Commit "swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" is triggering
> a series of warnings on boot:
>
> [ 3.446071] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 3.446664] WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:261 debug_print_object+0x8e/0xb0()
> [ 3.447715] ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object type: percpu_counter hint: (null)
> [ 3.450360] Modules linked in:
> [ 3.451593] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 3.8.0-rc4-next-20130124-sasha-00004-g838a1b4 #266
> [ 3.454508] Call Trace:
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff8110d1bc>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff8110d291>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff81a2bb5e>] debug_print_object+0x8e/0xb0
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff81a2c26b>] __debug_object_init+0x20b/0x290
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff81a2c305>] debug_object_init+0x15/0x20
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff81a3fbed>] __percpu_counter_init+0x6d/0xe0
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff81231bdc>] bdi_init+0x1ac/0x270
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff8618f20b>] swap_setup+0x3b/0x87
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff8618f257>] ? swap_setup+0x87/0x87
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff8618f268>] kswapd_init+0x11/0x7c
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff810020ca>] do_one_initcall+0x8a/0x180
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff86168cfd>] do_basic_setup+0x96/0xb4
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff861685ae>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff861885cd>] ? sched_init_smp+0x150/0x157
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff86168ded>] kernel_init_freeable+0xd2/0x14c
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff83cade10>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff83cade19>] kernel_init+0x9/0xf0
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff83d5727c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [ 3.455248] [<ffffffff83cade10>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
> [ 3.455248] ---[ end trace 0b176d5c0f21bffb ]---
>
> Initialize swap space backing_dev_info once to avoid the warning.
>
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
> ---
> mm/swap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux/mm/swap.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/swap.c 2013-01-27 21:26:21.942696713 +0800
> +++ linux/mm/swap.c 2013-01-27 21:27:29.233865394 +0800
> @@ -858,8 +858,8 @@ void __init swap_setup(void)
> #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> int i;
>
> + bdi_init(swapper_spaces[0].backing_dev_info);
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_SWAPFILES; i++) {
> - bdi_init(swapper_spaces[i].backing_dev_info);
> spin_lock_init(&swapper_spaces[i].tree_lock);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&swapper_spaces[i].i_mmap_nonlinear);
> }
>