mm/zswap: use workqueue to destroy pool
Add a work_struct to struct zswap_pool, and change __zswap_pool_empty to
use the workqueue instead of using call_rcu().
When zswap destroys a pool no longer in use, it uses call_rcu() to
perform the destruction/freeing. Since that executes in softirq
context, it must not sleep. However, actually destroying the pool
involves freeing the per-cpu compressors (which requires locking the
cpu_add_remove_lock mutex) and freeing the zpool, for which the
implementation may sleep (e.g. zsmalloc calls kmem_cache_destroy, which
locks the slab_mutex). So if either mutex is currently taken, or any
other part of the compressor or zpool implementation sleeps, it will
result in a BUG().
It's not easy to reproduce this when changing zswap's params normally.
In testing with a loaded system, this does not fail:
$ cd /sys/module/zswap/parameters
$ echo lz4 > compressor ; echo zsmalloc > zpool
nor does this:
$ while true ; do
> echo lzo > compressor ; echo zbud > zpool
> sleep 1
> echo lz4 > compressor ; echo zsmalloc > zpool
> sleep 1
> done
although it's still possible either of those might fail, depending on
whether anything else besides zswap has locked the mutexes.
However, changing a parameter with no delay immediately causes the
schedule while atomic BUG:
$ while true ; do
> echo lzo > compressor ; echo lz4 > compressor
> done
This is essentially the same as Yu Zhao's proposed patch to zsmalloc,
but moved to zswap, to cover compressor and zpool freeing.
Fixes: f1c54846ee45 ("zswap: dynamic pool creation")
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Reported-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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