From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Chulmin Kim <cmlaika.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 11/12] zsmalloc: page migration support
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:26:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170125052614.GB18289@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7488422b-98d1-1198-70d5-47c1e2bac721@samsung.com>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Chulmin Kim wrote:
> On 01/23/2017 12:40 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:30:56PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> >>On (01/23/17 14:22), Minchan Kim wrote:
> >>[..]
> >>>>Anyway, I will let you know the situation when it gets more clear.
> >>>
> >>>Yeb, Thanks.
> >>>
> >>>Perhaps, did you tried flush page before the writing?
> >>>I think arm64 have no d-cache alising problem but worth to try it.
> >>>Who knows :)
> >>
> >>I thought that flush_dcache_page() is only for cases when we write
> >>to page (store that makes pages dirty), isn't it?
> >
> >I think we need both because to see recent stores done by the user.
> >I'm not sure it should be done by block device driver rather than
> >page cache. Anyway, brd added it so worth to try it, I thought. :)
> >
>
> Thanks for the suggestion!
> It might be helpful
> though proving it is not easy as the problem appears rarely.
>
> Have you thought about
> zram swap or zswap dealing with self modifying code pages (ex. JIT)?
> (arm64 may have i-cache aliasing problem)
It can happen, I think, although I don't know how arm64 handles it.
>
> If it is problematic,
> especiallly zswap (without flush_dcache_page in zswap_frontswap_load()) may
> provide the corrupted data
> and even swap out (compressing) may see the corrupted data sooner or later,
> i guess.
try_to_unmap_one calls flush_cache_page which I hope to handle swap-out side
but for swap-in, I think zswap need flushing logic because it's first
touch of the user buffer so it's his resposibility.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-31 23:21 [PATCH v7 00/12] Support non-lru page migration Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] mm: use put_page to free page instead of putback_lru_page Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 02/12] mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] zsmalloc: keep max_object in size_class Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] zsmalloc: use bit_spin_lock Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] zsmalloc: use accessor Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] zsmalloc: factor page chain functionality out Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] zsmalloc: introduce zspage structure Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] zsmalloc: separate free_zspage from putback_zspage Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] zsmalloc: use freeobj for index Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] zsmalloc: page migration support Minchan Kim
2016-06-01 14:09 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-02 0:25 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-02 11:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-01 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2016-06-02 0:15 ` Minchan Kim
[not found] ` <CGME20170119001317epcas1p188357c77e1f4ff08b6d3dcb76dedca06@epcas1p1.samsung.com>
2017-01-19 0:13 ` Chulmin Kim
2017-01-19 2:44 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-19 3:39 ` Chulmin Kim
2017-01-19 6:21 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-19 8:16 ` Chulmin Kim
2017-01-23 5:22 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-23 5:30 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-23 5:40 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-25 4:06 ` Chulmin Kim
2017-01-25 4:25 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-25 5:26 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2017-01-26 17:04 ` Dan Streetman
2017-01-31 0:10 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-31 13:09 ` Dan Streetman
2017-02-01 6:51 ` Minchan Kim
2017-02-01 19:38 ` Dan Streetman
2017-02-02 8:48 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:21 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] zram: use __GFP_MOVABLE for memory allocation Minchan Kim
2016-06-01 21:41 ` [PATCH v7 00/12] Support non-lru page migration Andrew Morton
2016-06-01 22:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-06-02 0:36 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-15 7:59 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-15 23:12 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-16 2:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-16 2:58 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-16 4:23 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-16 4:47 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-16 5:22 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-16 6:47 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-16 8:42 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-16 10:09 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-17 7:28 ` Joonsoo Kim
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