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* zram: avoid null access when fail to alloc metaMinchan Kim2014-03-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | zram_meta_alloc could fail so caller should check it. Otherwise, your system will hang. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: remove zram->lock in read path and change it with mutexMinchan Kim2014-01-312-12/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Finally, we separated zram->lock dependency from 32bit stat/ table handling so there is no reason to use rw_semaphore between read and write path so this patch removes the lock from read path totally and changes rw_semaphore with mutex. So, we could do old: read-read: OK read-write: NO write-write: NO Now: read-read: OK read-write: OK write-write: NO The below data proves mixed workload performs well 11 times and there is also enhance on write-write path because current rw-semaphore doesn't support SPIN_ON_OWNER. It's side effect but anyway good thing for us. Write-related tests perform better (from 61% to 1058%) but read path has good/bad(from -2.22% to 1.45%) but they are all marginal within stddev. CPU 12 iozone -t -T -l 12 -u 12 -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z -V 0 ==Initial write ==Initial write records: 10 records: 10 avg: 516189.16 avg: 839907.96 std: 22486.53 (4.36%) std: 47902.17 (5.70%) max: 546970.60 max: 909910.35 min: 481131.54 min: 751148.38 ==Rewrite ==Rewrite records: 10 records: 10 avg: 509527.98 avg: 1050156.37 std: 45799.94 (8.99%) std: 40695.44 (3.88%) max: 611574.27 max: 1111929.26 min: 443679.95 min: 980409.62 ==Read ==Read records: 10 records: 10 avg: 4408624.17 avg: 4472546.76 std: 281152.61 (6.38%) std: 163662.78 (3.66%) max: 4867888.66 max: 4727351.03 min: 4058347.69 min: 4126520.88 ==Re-read ==Re-read records: 10 records: 10 avg: 4462147.53 avg: 4363257.75 std: 283546.11 (6.35%) std: 247292.63 (5.67%) max: 4912894.44 max: 4677241.75 min: 4131386.50 min: 4035235.84 ==Reverse Read ==Reverse Read records: 10 records: 10 avg: 4565865.97 avg: 4485818.08 std: 313395.63 (6.86%) std: 248470.10 (5.54%) max: 5232749.16 max: 4789749.94 min: 4185809.62 min: 3963081.34 ==Stride read ==Stride read records: 10 records: 10 avg: 4515981.80 avg: 4418806.01 std: 211192.32 (4.68%) std: 212837.97 (4.82%) max: 4889287.28 max: 4686967.22 min: 4210362.00 min: 4083041.84 ==Random read ==Random read records: 10 records: 10 avg: 4410525.23 avg: 4387093.18 std: 236693.22 (5.37%) std: 235285.23 (5.36%) max: 4713698.47 max: 4669760.62 min: 4057163.62 min: 3952002.16 ==Mixed workload ==Mixed workload records: 10 records: 10 avg: 243234.25 avg: 2818677.27 std: 28505.07 (11.72%) std: 195569.70 (6.94%) max: 288905.23 max: 3126478.11 min: 212473.16 min: 2484150.69 ==Random write ==Random write records: 10 records: 10 avg: 555887.07 avg: 1053057.79 std: 70841.98 (12.74%) std: 35195.36 (3.34%) max: 683188.28 max: 1096125.73 min: 437299.57 min: 992481.93 ==Pwrite ==Pwrite records: 10 records: 10 avg: 501745.93 avg: 810363.09 std: 16373.54 (3.26%) std: 19245.01 (2.37%) max: 518724.52 max: 833359.70 min: 464208.73 min: 765501.87 ==Pread ==Pread records: 10 records: 10 avg: 4539894.60 avg: 4457680.58 std: 197094.66 (4.34%) std: 188965.60 (4.24%) max: 4877170.38 max: 4689905.53 min: 4226326.03 min: 4095739.72 Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: remove workqueue for freeing removed pending slotMinchan Kim2014-01-312-58/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a0c516cbfc74 ("zram: don't grab mutex in zram_slot_free_noity") introduced free request pending code to avoid scheduling by mutex under spinlock and it was a mess which made code lenghty and increased overhead. Now, we don't need zram->lock any more to free slot so this patch reverts it and then, tb_lock should protect it. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: introduce zram->tb_lockMinchan Kim2014-01-312-6/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the zram table is protected by zram->lock but it's rather coarse-grained lock and it makes hard for scalibility. Let's use own rwlock instead of depending on zram->lock. This patch adds new locking so obviously, it would make slow but this patch is just prepartion for removing coarse-grained rw_semaphore(ie, zram->lock) which is hurdle about zram scalability. Final patch in this patchset series will remove the lock from read-path and change rw_semaphore with mutex in write path. With bonus, we could drop pending slot free mess in next patch. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: use atomic operation for statMinchan Kim2014-01-312-20/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of fields in zram->stats are protected by zram->lock which is rather coarse-grained so let's use atomic operation without explict locking. This patch is ready for removing dependency of zram->lock in read path which is very coarse-grained rw_semaphore. Of course, this patch adds new atomic operation so it might make slow but my 12CPU test couldn't spot any regression. All gain/lose is marginal within stddev. iozone -t -T -l 12 -u 12 -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z -V 0 ==Initial write ==Initial write records: 50 records: 50 avg: 412875.17 avg: 415638.23 std: 38543.12 (9.34%) std: 36601.11 (8.81%) max: 521262.03 max: 502976.72 min: 343263.13 min: 351389.12 ==Rewrite ==Rewrite records: 50 records: 50 avg: 416640.34 avg: 397914.33 std: 60798.92 (14.59%) std: 46150.42 (11.60%) max: 543057.07 max: 522669.17 min: 304071.67 min: 316588.77 ==Read ==Read records: 50 records: 50 avg: 4147338.63 avg: 4070736.51 std: 179333.25 (4.32%) std: 223499.89 (5.49%) max: 4459295.28 max: 4539514.44 min: 3753057.53 min: 3444686.31 ==Re-read ==Re-read records: 50 records: 50 avg: 4096706.71 avg: 4117218.57 std: 229735.04 (5.61%) std: 171676.25 (4.17%) max: 4430012.09 max: 4459263.94 min: 2987217.80 min: 3666904.28 ==Reverse Read ==Reverse Read records: 50 records: 50 avg: 4062763.83 avg: 4078508.32 std: 186208.46 (4.58%) std: 172684.34 (4.23%) max: 4401358.78 max: 4424757.22 min: 3381625.00 min: 3679359.94 ==Stride read ==Stride read records: 50 records: 50 avg: 4094933.49 avg: 4082170.22 std: 185710.52 (4.54%) std: 196346.68 (4.81%) max: 4478241.25 max: 4460060.97 min: 3732593.23 min: 3584125.78 ==Random read ==Random read records: 50 records: 50 avg: 4031070.04 avg: 4074847.49 std: 192065.51 (4.76%) std: 206911.33 (5.08%) max: 4356931.16 max: 4399442.56 min: 3481619.62 min: 3548372.44 ==Mixed workload ==Mixed workload records: 50 records: 50 avg: 149925.73 avg: 149675.54 std: 7701.26 (5.14%) std: 6902.09 (4.61%) max: 191301.56 max: 175162.05 min: 133566.28 min: 137762.87 ==Random write ==Random write records: 50 records: 50 avg: 404050.11 avg: 393021.47 std: 58887.57 (14.57%) std: 42813.70 (10.89%) max: 601798.09 max: 524533.43 min: 325176.99 min: 313255.34 ==Pwrite ==Pwrite records: 50 records: 50 avg: 411217.70 avg: 411237.96 std: 43114.99 (10.48%) std: 33136.29 (8.06%) max: 530766.79 max: 471899.76 min: 320786.84 min: 317906.94 ==Pread ==Pread records: 50 records: 50 avg: 4154908.65 avg: 4087121.92 std: 151272.08 (3.64%) std: 219505.04 (5.37%) max: 4459478.12 max: 4435857.38 min: 3730512.41 min: 3101101.67 Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: remove unnecessary freeMinchan Kim2014-01-311-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a0c516cbfc74 ("zram: don't grab mutex in zram_slot_free_noity") introduced pending zram slot free in zram's write path in case of missing slot free by memory allocation failure in zram_slot_free_notify but it is not necessary because we have already freed the slot right before overwriting. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: delay pending free request in read pathMinchan Kim2014-01-311-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sergey reported we don't need to handle pending free request every I/O so that this patch removes it in read path while we remain it in write path. Let's consider below example. Swap subsystem ask to zram "A" block free by swap_slot_free_notify but zram had been pended it without real freeing. Swap subsystem allocates "A" block for new data but request pended for a long time just handled and zram blindly free new data on the "A" block. :( That's why we couldn't remove handle pending free request right before zram-write. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: fix race between reset and flushing pending workMinchan Kim2014-01-311-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dan and Sergey reported that there is a racy between reset and flushing of pending work so that it could make oops by freeing zram->meta in reset while zram_slot_free can access zram->meta if new request is adding during the race window. This patch moves flush after taking init_lock so it prevents new request so that it closes the race. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: add copyrightMinchan Kim2014-01-312-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Add my copyright to the zram source code which I maintain. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: remove old private project commentMinchan Kim2014-01-313-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Remove the old private compcache project address so upcoming patches should be sent to LKML because we Linux kernel community will take care. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zram: promote zram from stagingMinchan Kim2014-01-314-0/+1146
Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice. The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and recently our production team released android smart phone with zram which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs. In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example, Lubuntu start to use it. The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could encounter OOM kill. :( Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap storage performance. Quote from Luigi on Google "Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the available RAM. " and he announced. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on the internet start zram as /var/tmp. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>