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Re: z3fold: suspicious return with spinlock held

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Hi Alexey,

> 10 mars 2017 kl. 22:54 skrev Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>:
> 
>> On 11.03.2017 00:34, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:22:12AM +0300, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> z3fold_reclaim_page() contains the only return that may
>>> leave the function with pool->lock spinlock held.
>>> 
>>> 669    spin_lock(&pool->lock);
>>> 670    if (kref_put(&zhdr->refcount, release_z3fold_page)) {
>>> 671        atomic64_dec(&pool->pages_nr);
>>> 672        return 0;
>>> 673    }
>>> 
>>> May be we need spin_unlock(&pool->lock); just before return?
Looks so, thanks for the pointer. I'm currently commuting but will check it thoroughly tomorrow for sure.

~vitaly 

>> 
>> I would tend to agree.  sparse warns about this, and also about two
>> other locking problems ... which I'm not sure are really problems so
>> much as missing annotations?
>> 
>> mm/z3fold.c:467:35: warning: context imbalance in 'z3fold_alloc' - unexpected unlock
>> mm/z3fold.c:519:26: warning: context imbalance in 'z3fold_free' - different lock contexts for basic block
>> mm/z3fold.c:581:12: warning: context imbalance in 'z3fold_reclaim_page' - different lock contexts for basic block
>> 
> 
> I also do not see problems in z3fold_alloc() and z3fold_free().
> But I am unaware of sparse annotations that can help here.
> 
> --
> Alexey

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z3fold: suspicious return with spinlock held Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> - 2017-03-10 22:30 +0100
  Re: z3fold: suspicious return with spinlock held Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> - 2017-03-10 22:40 +0100
    Re: z3fold: suspicious return with spinlock held Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> - 2017-03-10 23:00 +0100
      Re: z3fold: suspicious return with spinlock held vitalywool@gmail.com - 2017-03-10 23:10 +0100

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