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Chao Yu 0cf1e9d6c3 zram: fix incorrect stat with failed_reads
Since we allocate a temporary buffer in zram_bvec_read to handle partial
page operations in commit 924bd88d70 ("Staging: zram: allow partial
page operations"), our ->failed_reads value may be incorrect as we do
not increase its value when failing to allocate the temporary buffer.

Let's fix this issue and correct the annotation of failed_reads.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-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>
2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
Weijie Yang d2d5e762c8 zram: replace global tb_lock with fine grain lock
Currently, we use a rwlock tb_lock to protect concurrent access to the
whole zram meta table.  However, according to the actual access model,
there is only a small chance for upper user to access the same
table[index], so the current lock granularity is too big.

The idea of optimization is to change the lock granularity from whole
meta table to per table entry (table -> table[index]), so that we can
protect concurrent access to the same table[index], meanwhile allow the
maximum concurrency.

With this in mind, several kinds of locks which could be used as a
per-entry lock were tested and compared:

Test environment:
x86-64 Intel Core2 Q8400, system memory 4GB, Ubuntu 12.04,
kernel v3.15.0-rc3 as base, zram with 4 max_comp_streams LZO.

iozone test:
iozone -t 4 -R -r 16K -s 200M -I +Z
(1GB zram with ext4 filesystem, take the average of 10 tests, KB/s)

      Test       base      CAS    spinlock    rwlock   bit_spinlock
-------------------------------------------------------------------
 Initial write  1381094   1425435   1422860   1423075   1421521
       Rewrite  1529479   1641199   1668762   1672855   1654910
          Read  8468009  11324979  11305569  11117273  10997202
       Re-read  8467476  11260914  11248059  11145336  10906486
  Reverse Read  6821393   8106334   8282174   8279195   8109186
   Stride read  7191093   8994306   9153982   8961224   9004434
   Random read  7156353   8957932   9167098   8980465   8940476
Mixed workload  4172747   5680814   5927825   5489578   5972253
  Random write  1483044   1605588   1594329   1600453   1596010
        Pwrite  1276644   1303108   1311612   1314228   1300960
         Pread  4324337   4632869   4618386   4457870   4500166

To enhance the possibility of access the same table[index] concurrently,
set zram a small disksize(10MB) and let threads run with large loop
count.

fio test:
fio --bs=32k --randrepeat=1 --randseed=100 --refill_buffers
--scramble_buffers=1 --direct=1 --loops=3000 --numjobs=4
--filename=/dev/zram0 --name=seq-write --rw=write --stonewall
--name=seq-read --rw=read --stonewall --name=seq-readwrite
--rw=rw --stonewall --name=rand-readwrite --rw=randrw --stonewall
(10MB zram raw block device, take the average of 10 tests, KB/s)

    Test     base     CAS    spinlock    rwlock  bit_spinlock
-------------------------------------------------------------
seq-write   933789   999357   1003298    995961   1001958
 seq-read  5634130  6577930   6380861   6243912   6230006
   seq-rw  1405687  1638117   1640256   1633903   1634459
  rand-rw  1386119  1614664   1617211   1609267   1612471

All the optimization methods show a higher performance than the base,
however, it is hard to say which method is the most appropriate.

On the other hand, zram is mostly used on small embedded system, so we
don't want to increase any memory footprint.

This patch pick the bit_spinlock method, pack object size and page_flag
into an unsigned long table.value, so as to not increase any memory
overhead on both 32-bit and 64-bit system.

On the third hand, even though different kinds of locks have different
performances, we can ignore this difference, because: if zram is used as
zram swapfile, the swap subsystem can prevent concurrent access to the
same swapslot; if zram is used as zram-blk for set up filesystem on it,
the upper filesystem and the page cache also prevent concurrent access
of the same block mostly.  So we can ignore the different performances
among locks.

Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:23 -07:00
Minchan Kim 023b409f9d zram: use size_t instead of u16
Some architectures (eg, hexagon and PowerPC) could use PAGE_SHIFT of 16
or more.  In these cases u16 is not sufficiently large to represent a
compressed page's size so use size_t.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:23 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky a830eff749 zram: remove unused SECTOR_SIZE define
Drop SECTOR_SIZE define, because it's not used.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky cb8f2eec3c zram: rename struct `table' to `zram_table_entry'
Andrew Morton has recently noted that `struct table' actually represents
table entry and, thus, should be renamed.  Rename to `zram_table_entry'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
Minchan Kim b4c5c60920 zram: avoid lockdep splat by revalidate_disk
Sasha reported lockdep warning [1] introduced by [2].

It could be fixed by doing disk revalidation out of the init_lock.  It's
okay because disk capacity change is protected by init_lock so that
revalidate_disk always sees up-to-date value so there is no race.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/3/735
[2] zram: revalidate disk after capacity change

Fixes 2e32baea46 ("zram: revalidate disk after capacity change").

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: 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>
2014-07-23 15:10:54 -07:00
Minchan Kim 2e32baea46 zram: revalidate disk after capacity change
Alexander reported mkswap on /dev/zram0 is failed if other process is
opening the block device file.

Step is as follows,

0. Reset the unused zram device.
1. Use a program that opens /dev/zram0 with O_RDWR and sleeps
   until killed.
2. While that program sleeps, echo the correct value to
   /sys/block/zram0/disksize.
3. Verify (e.g. in /proc/partitions) that the disk size is applied
   correctly. It is.
4. While that program still sleeps, attempt to mkswap /dev/zram0.
   This fails: mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB

When I investigated, the size get by ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, xxx) on
mkswap to get a size of blockdev was zero although zram0 has right size by
2.

The reason is zram didn't revalidate disk after changing capacity so that
size of blockdev's inode is not uptodate until all of file is close.

This patch should fix the BUG.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.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>
2014-07-03 09:21:53 -07:00
Weijie Yang 38515c7339 zram: correct offset usage in zram_bio_discard
We want to skip the physical block(PAGE_SIZE) which is partially covered
by the discard bio, so we check the remaining size and subtract it if
there is a need to goto the next physical block.

The current offset usage in zram_bio_discard is incorrect, it will cause
its upper filesystem breakdown.  Consider the following scenario:

On some architecture or config, PAGE_SIZE is 64K for example, filesystem
is set up on zram disk without PAGE_SIZE aligned, a discard bio leads to a
offset = 4K and size=72K, normally, it should not really discard any
physical block as it partially cover two physical blocks.  However, with
the current offset usage, it will discard the second physical block and
free its memory, which will cause filesystem breakdown.

This patch corrects the offset usage in zram_bio_discard.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:13 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim f4659d8e62 zram: support REQ_DISCARD
zram is ram based block device and can be used by backend of filesystem.
When filesystem deletes a file, it normally doesn't do anything on data
block of that file.  It just marks on metadata of that file.  This
behavior has no problem on disk based block device, but has problems on
ram based block device, since we can't free memory used for data block.
To overcome this disadvantage, there is REQ_DISCARD functionality.  If
block device support REQ_DISCARD and filesystem is mounted with discard
option, filesystem sends REQ_DISCARD to block device whenever some data
blocks are discarded.  All we have to do is to handle this request.

This patch implements to flag up QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD and handle this
REQ_DISCARD request.  With it, we can free memory used by zram if it isn't
used.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: 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>
2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 56b4e8cb85 zram: use scnprintf() in attrs show() methods
sysfs.txt documentation lists the following requirements:

 - The buffer will always be PAGE_SIZE bytes in length. On i386, this
   is 4096.

 - show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
   buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().

 - show() should always use scnprintf().

Use scnprintf() in show() functions.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
Minchan Kim 60a726e333 zram: propagate error to user
When we initialized zcomp with single, we couldn't change
max_comp_streams without zram reset but current interface doesn't show
any error to user and even it changes max_comp_streams's value without
any effect so it would make user very confusing.

This patch prevents max_comp_streams's change when zcomp was initialized
as single zcomp and emit the error to user(ex, echo).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't return with the lock held, per Sergey]
[fengguang.wu@intel.com: fix coccinelle warnings]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky fcfa8d95ca zram: return error-valued pointer from zcomp_create()
Instead of returning just NULL, return ERR_PTR from zcomp_create() if
compressing backend creation has failed.  ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) for unsupported
compression algorithm request, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) for allocation (zcomp or
compression stream) error.

Perform IS_ERR() check of returned from zcomp_create() value in
disksize_store() and set return code to PTR_ERR().

Change suggested by Jerome Marchand.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up error recovery flow]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky d61f98c70e zram: move comp allocation out of init_lock
While fixing lockdep spew of ->init_lock reported by Sasha Levin [1],
Minchan Kim noted [2] that it's better to move compression backend
allocation (using GPF_KERNEL) out of the ->init_lock lock, same way as
with zram_meta_alloc(), in order to prevent the same lockdep spew.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/27/337
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/3/32

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 6e76668e41 zram: add lz4 algorithm backend
Introduce LZ4 compression backend and make it available for selection.
LZ4 support is optional and requires user to set ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS config
option.  The default compression backend is LZO.

TEST

(x86_64, core i5, 2 cores + 2 hyperthreading, zram disk size 1G,
ext4 file system, 3 compression streams)

iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       Test           LZO           LZ4
----------------------------------------------
  Initial write   1642744.62    1317005.09
        Rewrite   2498980.88    1800645.16
           Read   3957026.38    5877043.75
        Re-read   3950997.38    5861847.00
   Reverse Read   2937114.56    5047384.00
    Stride read   2948163.19    4929587.38
    Random read   3292692.69    4880793.62
 Mixed workload   1545602.62    3502940.38
   Random write   2448039.75    1758786.25
         Pwrite   1670051.03    1338329.69
          Pread   2530682.00    5097177.62
         Fwrite   3232085.62    3275942.56
          Fread   6306880.25    6645271.12

So on my system LZ4 is slower in write-only tests, while it performs
better in read-only and mixed (reads + writes) tests.

Official LZ4 benchmarks available here http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
(linux kernel uses revision r90).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky e46b8a030d zram: make compression algorithm selection possible
Add and document `comp_algorithm' device attribute.  This attribute allows
to show supported compression and currently selected compression
algorithms:

	cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
	[lzo] lz4

and change selected compression algorithm:
	echo lzo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky fe8eb122c8 zram: add set_max_streams knob
This patch allows to change max_comp_streams on initialised zcomp.

Introduce zcomp set_max_streams() knob, zcomp_strm_multi_set_max_streams()
and zcomp_strm_single_set_max_streams() callbacks to change streams limit
for zcomp_strm_multi and zcomp_strm_single, accordingly.  set_max_streams
for single steam zcomp does nothing.

If user has lowered the limit, then zcomp_strm_multi_set_max_streams()
attempts to immediately free extra streams (as much as it can, depending
on idle streams availability).

Note, this patch does not allow to change stream 'policy' from single to
multi stream (or vice versa) on already initialised compression backend.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky beca3ec71f zram: add multi stream functionality
Existing zram (zcomp) implementation has only one compression stream
(buffer and algorithm private part), so in order to prevent data
corruption only one write (compress operation) can use this compression
stream, forcing all concurrent write operations to wait for stream lock
to be released.  This patch changes zcomp to keep a compression streams
list of user-defined size (via sysfs device attr).  Each write operation
still exclusively holds compression stream, the difference is that we
can have N write operations (depending on size of streams list)
executing in parallel.  See TEST section later in commit message for
performance data.

Introduce struct zcomp_strm_multi and a set of functions to manage
zcomp_strm stream access.  zcomp_strm_multi has a list of idle
zcomp_strm structs, spinlock to protect idle list and wait queue, making
it possible to perform parallel compressions.

The following set of functions added:
- zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
  find and release a compression stream, implement required locking
- zcomp_strm_multi_create()/zcomp_strm_multi_destroy()
  create and destroy zcomp_strm_multi

zcomp ->strm_find() and ->strm_release() callbacks are set during
initialisation to zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
correspondingly.

Each time zcomp issues a zcomp_strm_multi_find() call, the following set
of operations performed:

- spin lock strm_lock
- if idle list is not empty, remove zcomp_strm from idle list, spin
  unlock and return zcomp stream pointer to caller
- if idle list is empty, current adds itself to wait queue. it will be
  awaken by zcomp_strm_multi_release() caller.

zcomp_strm_multi_release():
- spin lock strm_lock
- add zcomp stream to idle list
- spin unlock, wake up sleeper

Minchan Kim reported that spinlock-based locking scheme has demonstrated
a severe perfomance regression for single compression stream case,
comparing to mutex-based (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16)

base                      spinlock                    mutex

==Initial write           ==Initial write             ==Initial  write
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1642424.35      avg:      699610.40         avg:       1655583.71
std:      39890.95(2.43%) std:      232014.19(33.16%) std:       52293.96
max:      1690170.94      max:      1163473.45        max:       1697164.75
min:      1568669.52      min:      573429.88         min:       1553410.23
==Rewrite                 ==Rewrite                   ==Rewrite
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1611775.39      avg:      501406.64         avg:       1684419.11
std:      17144.58(1.06%) std:      15354.41(3.06%)   std:       18367.42
max:      1641800.95      max:      531356.78         max:       1706445.84
min:      1593515.27      min:      488817.78         min:       1655335.73

When only one compression stream available, mutex with spin on owner
tends to perform much better than frequent wait_event()/wake_up().  This
is why single stream implemented as a special case with mutex locking.

Introduce and document zram device attribute max_comp_streams.  This
attr shows and stores current zcomp's max number of zcomp streams
(max_strm).  Extend zcomp's zcomp_create() with `max_strm' parameter.
`max_strm' limits the number of zcomp_strm structs in compression
backend's idle list (max_comp_streams).

max_comp_streams used during initialisation as follows:
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm equals to 1 will initialise zcomp
using single compression stream zcomp_strm_single (mutex-based locking).
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm greater than 1 will initialise zcomp
using multi compression stream zcomp_strm_multi (spinlock-based locking).

default max_comp_streams value is 1, meaning that zram with single stream
will be initialised.

Later patch will introduce configuration knob to change max_comp_streams
on already initialised and used zcomp.

TEST
iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       test           base       1 strm (mutex)     3 strm (spinlock)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Initial write      589286.78       583518.39          718011.05
       Rewrite      604837.97       596776.38         1515125.72
  Random write      584120.11       595714.58         1388850.25
        Pwrite      535731.17       541117.38          739295.27
        Fwrite     1418083.88      1478612.72         1484927.06

Usage example:
set max_comp_streams to 4
        echo 4 > /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

show current max_comp_streams (default value is 1).
        cat /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 9cc97529a1 zram: factor out single stream compression
This is preparation patch to add multi stream support to zcomp.

Introduce struct zcomp_strm_single and a set of functions to manage
zcomp_strm stream access.  zcomp_strm_single implements single compession
stream, same way as current zcomp implementation.  This moves zcomp_strm
stream control and locking from zcomp, so compressing backend zcomp is not
aware of required locking.

Single and multi streams require different locking schemes.  Minchan Kim
reported that spinlock-based locking scheme (which is used in multi stream
implementation) has demonstrated a severe perfomance regression for single
compression stream case, comparing to mutex-based.  see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16

The following set of functions added:
- zcomp_strm_single_find()/zcomp_strm_single_release()
  find and release a compression stream, implement required locking
- zcomp_strm_single_create()/zcomp_strm_single_destroy()
  create and destroy zcomp_strm_single

New ->strm_find() and ->strm_release() callbacks added to zcomp, which are
set to zcomp_strm_single_find() and zcomp_strm_single_release() during
initialisation.  Instead of direct locking and zcomp_strm access from
zcomp_strm_find() and zcomp_strm_release(), zcomp now calls ->strm_find()
and ->strm_release() correspondingly.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky b7ca232ee7 zram: use zcomp compressing backends
Do not perform direct LZO compress/decompress calls, initialise
and use zcomp LZO backend (single compression stream) instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: resolve conflicts with zram-delete-zram_init_device-fix.patch]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky e7e1ef439d zram: introduce compressing backend abstraction
ZRAM performs direct LZO compression algorithm calls, making it the one
and only option.  While LZO is generally performs well, LZ4 algorithm
tends to have a faster decompression (see http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
for full report)

	Name            Ratio  C.speed D.speed
	                        MB/s    MB/s
	LZ4 (r101)      2.084    422    1820
	LZO 2.06        2.106    414     600

Thus, users who have mostly read (decompress) usage scenarious or mixed
workflow (writes with relatively high read ops number) will benefit from
using LZ4 compression backend.

Introduce compressing backend abstraction zcomp in order to support
multiple compression algorithms with the following set of operations:

        .create
        .destroy
        .compress
        .decompress

Schematically zram write() usually contains the following steps:
0) preparation (decompression of partioal IO, etc.)
1) lock buffer_lock mutex (protects meta compress buffers)
2) compress (using meta compress buffers)
3) alloc and map zs_pool object
4) copy compressed data (from meta compress buffers) to object allocated by 3)
5) free previous pool page, assign a new one
6) unlock buffer_lock mutex

As we can see, compressing buffers must remain untouched from 1) to 4),
because, otherwise, concurrent write() can overwrite data.  At the same
time, zram_meta must be aware of a) specific compression algorithm memory
requirements and b) necessary locking to protect compression buffers.  To
remove requirement a) new struct zcomp_strm introduced, which contains a
compress/decompress `buffer' and compression algorithm `private' part.
While struct zcomp implements zcomp_strm stream handling and locking and
removes requirement b) from zram meta.  zcomp ->create() and ->destroy(),
respectively, allocate and deallocate algorithm specific zcomp_strm
`private' part.

Every zcomp has zcomp stream and mutex to protect its compression stream.
Stream usage semantics remains the same -- only one write can hold stream
lock and use its buffers.  zcomp_strm_find() turns caller into exclusive
user of a stream (holding stream mutex until zram release stream), and
zcomp_strm_release() makes zcomp stream available (unlock the stream
mutex).  Hence no concurrent write (compression) operations possible at
the moment.

iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       test            base           patched
--------------------------------------------------
  Initial write      597992.91       591660.58
        Rewrite      609674.34       616054.97
           Read     2404771.75      2452909.12
        Re-read     2459216.81      2470074.44
   Reverse Read     1652769.66      1589128.66
    Stride read     2202441.81      2202173.31
    Random read     2236311.47      2276565.31
 Mixed workload     1423760.41      1709760.06
   Random write      579584.08       615933.86
         Pwrite      597550.02       594933.70
          Pread     1703672.53      1718126.72
         Fwrite     1330497.06      1461054.00
          Fread     3922851.00      3957242.62

Usage examples:

	comp = zcomp_create(NAME) /* NAME e.g. "lzo" */

which initialises compressing backend if requested algorithm is supported.

Compress:
	zstrm = zcomp_strm_find(comp)
	zcomp_compress(comp, zstrm, src, &dst_len)
	[..] /* copy compressed data */
	zcomp_strm_release(comp, zstrm)

Decompress:
	zcomp_decompress(comp, src, src_len, dst);

Free compessing backend and its zcomp stream:
	zcomp_destroy(comp)

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky b67d1ec189 zram: delete zram_init_device()
allocate new `zram_meta' in disksize_store() only for uninitialised zram
device, saving a number of allocations and deallocations in case if
disksize_store() was called on currently used device.  at the same time
zram_meta stack variable is not necessary, because we can set ->meta
directly.  there is also no need in setting QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT queue on
every disksize_store(), set it once during device creation.

[minchan@kernel.org: handle zram->meta alloc fail case]
[minchan@kernel.org: prevent lockdep spew of init_lock]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:00 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky e64cd51d2f zram: move zram size warning to documentation
Move zram warning about disksize and size of memory correlation to zram
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:00 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 59fc86a492 zram: drop not used table `count' member
struct table `count' member is not used.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:00 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 6444724939 zram: report failed read and write stats
zram accounted but did not report numbers of failed read and write
queries.  make these stats available as failed_reads and failed_writes
attrs.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:00 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky a68eb3b65e zram: remove zram stats code duplication
Introduce ZRAM_ATTR_RO macro that generates device_attribute and default
ATTR show() function for existing atomic64_t zram stats.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:00 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 90a7806ea9 zram: use atomic64_t for all zram stats
This is a preparation patch for stats code duplication removal.

1) use atomic64_t for `pages_zero' and `pages_stored' zram stats.

2) `compr_size' and `pages_zero' struct zram_stats members did not
   follow the existing device attr naming scheme: zram_stats.ATTR has
   ATTR_show() function.  rename them:

   -- compr_size -> compr_data_size
   -- pages_zero -> zero_pages

Minchan Kim's note:
 If we really have trouble with atomic stat operation, we could
 change it with percpu_counter so that it could solve atomic overhead and
 unnecessary memory space by introducing unsigned long instead of 64bit
 atomic_t.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:59 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky b7cccf8b40 zram: remove good and bad compress stats
Remove `good' and `bad' compressed sub-requests stats.  RW request may
cause a number of RW sub-requests.  zram used to account `good' compressed
sub-queries (with compressed size less than 50% of original size), `bad'
compressed sub-queries (with compressed size greater that 75% of original
size), leaving sub-requests with compression size between 50% and 75% of
original size not accounted and not reported.  zram already accounts each
sub-request's compression size so we can calculate real device compression
ratio.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:59 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky be257c6130 zram: do not pass rw argument to __zram_make_request()
Do not pass rw argument down the __zram_make_request() -> zram_bvec_rw()
chain, decode it in zram_bvec_rw() instead.  Besides, this is the place
where we distinguish READ and WRITE bio data directions, so account zram
RW stats here, instead of __zram_make_request().  This also allows to
account a real number of zram READ/WRITE operations, not just requests
(single RW request may cause a number of zram RW ops with separate
locking, compression/decompression, etc).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:59 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky be2d1d56c8 zram: drop `init_done' struct zram member
Introduce init_done() helper function which allows us to drop `init_done'
struct zram member.  init_done() uses the fact that ->init_done == 1
equals to ->meta != NULL.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:59 -07:00
Minchan Kim db5d711e2d zram: avoid null access when fail to alloc meta
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>
2014-03-04 07:55:49 -08:00
Minchan Kim e46e33152e zram: remove zram->lock in read path and change it with mutex
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
Minchan Kim f614a9f48d zram: remove workqueue for freeing removed pending slot
Commit a0c516cbfc ("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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim 92967471b6 zram: introduce zram->tb_lock
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim deb0bdeb2f zram: use atomic operation for stat
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim 874e3cddc3 zram: remove unnecessary free
Commit a0c516cbfc ("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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim 9b353db16d zram: delay pending free request in read path
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim da4a04126b zram: fix race between reset and flushing pending work
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim 7bfb3de8a1 zram: add copyright
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim 49061236a9 zram: remove old private project comment
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00
Minchan Kim cd67e10ac6 zram: promote zram from staging
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>
2014-01-30 16:56:55 -08:00