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Minchan Kim
authored
Patch series "zram clean up", v2.
This patchset aims to clean up zram .
[1] clean up multiple pages's bvec handling.
[2] clean up partial IO handling
[3-6] clean up zram via using accessor and removing pointless structure.
With [2-6] applied, we can get a few hundred bytes as well as huge
readibility enhance.
x86: 708 byte save
add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 0/11 up/down: 478/-1186 (-708)
function old new delta
zram_special_page_read - 478 +478
zram_reset_device 317 314 -3
mem_used_max_store 131 128 -3
compact_store 96 93 -3
mm_stat_show 203 197 -6
zram_add 719 712 -7
zram_slot_free_notify 229 214 -15
zram_make_request 819 803 -16
zram_meta_free 128 111 -17
zram_free_page 180 151 -29
disksize_store 432 361 -71
zram_decompress_page.isra 504 - -504
zram_bvec_rw 2592 2080 -512
Total: Before=25350773, After=25350065, chg -0.00%
ppc64: 231 byte save
add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 1/9 up/down: 681/-912 (-231)
function old new delta
zram_special_page_read - 480 +480
zram_slot_lock - 200 +200
vermagic 39 40 +1
mm_stat_show 256 248 -8
zram_meta_free 200 184 -16
zram_add 944 912 -32
zram_free_page 348 308 -40
disksize_store 572 492 -80
zram_decompress_page 664 564 -100
zram_slot_free_notify 292 160 -132
zram_make_request 1132 1000 -132
zram_bvec_rw 2768 2396 -372
Total: Before=17565825, After=17565594, chg -0.00%
This patch (of 6):
Johannes Thumshirn reported system goes the panic when using NVMe over
Fabrics loopback target with zram.
The reason is zram expects each bvec in bio contains a single page
but nvme can attach a huge bulk of pages attached to the bio's bvec
so that zram's index arithmetic could be wrong so that out-of-bound
access makes system panic.
[1] in mainline solved solved the problem by limiting max_sectors with
SECTORS_PER_PAGE but it makes zram slow because bio should split with
each pages so this patch makes zram aware of multiple pages in a bvec
so it could solve without any regression(ie, bio split).
[1] 0bc31538, zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of
bounds accesses
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170413134057.GA27499@bbox
Signed-off-by: 
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: 
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: 
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: 
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>