zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap_shrink()
authorLi Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:37:42 +0000 (16:37 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 5 Sep 2018 07:26:30 +0000 (09:26 +0200)
commita73b6c4c2601dbe1cef92d7adeaf267fc50dcd4e
tree1778850a024b52011c01aa127905ccd003390da5
parent92c159863d8afefa9ca25a180feba6bff11c2be5
zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap_shrink()

[ Upstream commit 16e536ef47f567289a5699abee9ff7bb304bc12d ]

/sys/../zswap/stored_pages keeps rising in a zswap test with
"zswap.max_pool_percent=0" parameter.  But it should not compress or
store pages any more since there is no space in the compressed pool.

Reproduce steps:
  1. Boot kernel with "zswap.enabled=1"
  2. Set the max_pool_percent to 0
      # echo 0 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent
  3. Do memory stress test to see if some pages have been compressed
      # stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes $mem_available"M" --timeout 60s
  4. Watching the 'stored_pages' number increasing or not

The root cause is:

  When zswap_max_pool_percent is set to 0 via kernel parameter,
  zswap_is_full() will always return true due to zswap_shrink().  But if
  the shinking is able to reclain a page successfully the code then
  proceeds to compressing/storing another page, so the value of
  stored_pages will keep changing.

To solve the issue, this patch adds a zswap_is_full() check again after
  zswap_shrink() to make sure it's now under the max_pool_percent, and to
  not compress/store if we reached the limit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180530103936.17812-1-liwang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/zswap.c