z3fold: simplify freeing slots
authorVitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:12:30 +0000 (19:12 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:54:10 +0000 (11:54 +0100)
commitb8b1d4e96a1074707cbaf1df59ae328e691b2bd5
tree691dddc1d1da767d8b5d243f14fa6182b7c2839b
parente885d1c515dabd18e05b838a3b36364b400ad58c
z3fold: simplify freeing slots

commit fc5488651c7d840c9cad9b0f273f2f31bd03413a upstream.

Patch series "z3fold: stability / rt fixes".

Address z3fold stability issues under stress load, primarily in the
reclaim and free aspects.  Besides, it fixes the locking problems that
were only seen in real-time kernel configuration.

This patch (of 3):

There used to be two places in the code where slots could be freed, namely
when freeing the last allocated handle from the slots and when releasing
the z3fold header these slots aree linked to.  The logic to decide on
whether to free certain slots was complicated and error prone in both
functions and it led to failures in RT case.

To fix that, make free_handle() the single point of freeing slots.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201209145151.18994-1-vitaly.wool@konsulko.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201209145151.18994-2-vitaly.wool@konsulko.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/z3fold.c