Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] mm: zswap: add pool shrinking mechanism

Johannes Weiner
2023-06-08T16:52:58Z

On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 04:56:05PM +0200, Domenico Cerasuolo wrote:
> @@ -584,14 +601,70 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_find_get(char *type, char *compressor)
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static int zswap_shrink(struct zswap_pool *pool)
> +{
> + struct zswap_entry *lru_entry, *tree_entry = NULL;
> + struct zswap_header *zhdr;
> + struct zswap_tree *tree;
> + int swpoffset;
> + int ret;
> +
> + /* get a reclaimable entry from LRU */
> + spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock);
> + if (list_empty(&pool->lru)) {
> + spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + lru_entry = list_last_entry(&pool->lru, struct zswap_entry, lru);
> + list_del_init(&lru_entry->lru);
> + zhdr = zpool_map_handle(pool->zpool, lru_entry->handle, ZPOOL_MM_RO);
> + tree = zswap_trees[swp_type(zhdr->swpentry)];
> + zpool_unmap_handle(pool->zpool, lru_entry->handle);
> + /*
> + * Once the pool lock is dropped, the lru_entry might get freed. The
> + * swpoffset is copied to the stack, and lru_entry isn't deref'd again
> + * until the entry is verified to still be alive in the tree.
> + */
> + swpoffset = swp_offset(zhdr->swpentry);
> + spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock);
> +
> + /* hold a reference from tree so it won't be freed during writeback */
> + spin_lock(&tree->lock);
> + tree_entry = zswap_entry_find_get(&tree->rbroot, swpoffset);
> + if (tree_entry != lru_entry) {
> + if (tree_entry)
> + zswap_entry_put(tree, tree_entry);
> + spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> + return -EAGAIN;
> + }
> + spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> +
> + ret = zswap_writeback_entry(pool->zpool, lru_entry->handle);
> +
> + spin_lock(&tree->lock);
> + if (ret) {
> + spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock);
> + list_move(&lru_entry->lru, &pool->lru);
> + spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock);
> + }
> + zswap_entry_put(tree, tree_entry);

On re-reading this, I find the lru_entry vs tree_entry distinction
unnecessarily complicated. Once it's known that the thing coming off
the LRU is the same thing as in the tree, there is only "the entry".

How about 'entry' and 'tree_entry', and after validation use 'entry'
throughout the rest of the function?