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Re: [PATCH v3] zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: schedule free_work if zspage is ZS_EMPTY

From Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3] zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: schedule free_work if zspage is ZS_EMPTY
Date 2017-08-16 06:10 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:19:41AM +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
> After commit [1] zs_page_migrate can handle the ZS_EMPTY zspage.
> 
> But I got some false in zs_page_isolate:
> 	if (get_zspage_inuse(zspage) == 0) {
> 		spin_unlock(&class->lock);
> 		return false;
> 	}
> The page of this zspage was migrated in before.
> 
> The reason is commit [1] just handle the "page" but not "newpage"
> then it keep the "newpage" with a empty zspage inside system.
> Root cause is zs_page_isolate remove it from ZS_EMPTY list but not
> call zs_page_putback "schedule_work(&pool->free_work);".  Because
> zs_page_migrate done the job without "schedule_work(&pool->free_work);"
> 
> Make this patch let zs_page_migrate wake up free_work if need.
> 
> [1] zsmalloc-zs_page_migrate-skip-unnecessary-loops-but-not-return-ebusy-if-zspage-is-not-inuse-fix.patch
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xiaomi.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Thanks!

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[PATCH v3] zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: schedule free_work if zspage is ZS_EMPTY Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xiaomi.com> - 2017-08-16 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3] zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: schedule free_work if  zspage is ZS_EMPTY Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-08-16 06:10 +0200

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