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authorKanchana P. Sridhar <kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com>2026-03-31 11:33:51 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-04-18 00:10:50 -0700
commitef3c0f6cb798e2602a8d8ee3f669fb1cc52345ce (patch)
tree18945e255c123e2d49b46715220291a60a5cdfb3 /include/linux
parent1556478e9e86585d4c48fcddb8f490713bd78156 (diff)
mm: zswap: tie per-CPU acomp_ctx lifetime to the pool
Currently, per-CPU acomp_ctx are allocated on pool creation and/or CPU hotplug, and destroyed on pool destruction or CPU hotunplug. This complicates the lifetime management to save memory while a CPU is offlined, which is not very common. Simplify lifetime management by allocating per-CPU acomp_ctx once on pool creation (or CPU hotplug for CPUs onlined later), and keeping them allocated until the pool is destroyed. Refactor cleanup code from zswap_cpu_comp_dead() into acomp_ctx_free() to be used elsewhere. The main benefit of using the CPU hotplug multi state instance startup callback to allocate the acomp_ctx resources is that it prevents the cores from being offlined until the multi state instance addition call returns. From Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst: "The node list add/remove operations and the callback invocations are serialized against CPU hotplug operations." Furthermore, zswap_[de]compress() cannot contend with zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() because: - During pool creation/deletion, the pool is not in the zswap_pools list. - During CPU hot[un]plug, the CPU is not yet online, as Yosry pointed out. zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() will be run on a control CPU, since CPUHP_MM_ZSWP_POOL_PREPARE is in the PREPARE section of "enum cpuhp_state". In both these cases, any recursions into zswap reclaim from zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() will be handled by the old pool. The above two observations enable the following simplifications: 1) zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(): a) acomp_ctx mutex locking: If the process gets migrated while zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() is running, it will complete on the new CPU. In case of failures, we pass the acomp_ctx pointer obtained at the start of zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() to acomp_ctx_free(), which again, can only undergo migration. There appear to be no contention scenarios that might cause inconsistent values of acomp_ctx's members. Hence, it seems there is no need for mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex) in zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(). b) acomp_ctx mutex initialization: Since the pool is not yet on zswap_pools list, we don't need to initialize the per-CPU acomp_ctx mutex in zswap_pool_create(). This has been restored to occur in zswap_cpu_comp_prepare(). c) Subsequent CPU offline-online transitions: zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() checks upfront if acomp_ctx->acomp is valid. If so, it returns success. This should handle any CPU hotplug online-offline transitions after pool creation is done. 2) CPU offline vis-a-vis zswap ops: Let's suppose the process is migrated to another CPU before the current CPU is dysfunctional. If zswap_[de]compress() holds the acomp_ctx->mutex lock of the offlined CPU, that mutex will be released once it completes on the new CPU. Since there is no teardown callback, there is no possibility of UAF. 3) Pool creation/deletion and process migration to another CPU: During pool creation/deletion, the pool is not in the zswap_pools list. Hence it cannot contend with zswap ops on that CPU. However, the process can get migrated. a) Pool creation --> zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() --> process migrated: * Old CPU offline: no-op. * zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() continues to run on the new CPU to finish allocating acomp_ctx resources for the offlined CPU. b) Pool deletion --> acomp_ctx_free() --> process migrated: * Old CPU offline: no-op. * acomp_ctx_free() continues to run on the new CPU to finish de-allocating acomp_ctx resources for the offlined CPU. 4) Pool deletion vis-a-vis CPU onlining: The call to cpuhp_state_remove_instance() cannot race with zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() because of hotplug synchronization. The current acomp_ctx_get_cpu_lock()/acomp_ctx_put_unlock() are deleted. Instead, zswap_[de]compress() directly call mutex_[un]lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex). The per-CPU memory cost of not deleting the acomp_ctx resources upon CPU offlining, and only deleting them when the pool is destroyed, is 8.28 KB on x86_64. This cost is only paid when a CPU is offlined, until it is onlined again. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260331183351.29844-3-kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Kanchana P. Sridhar <kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kanchana P. Sridhar <kanchanapsridhar2026@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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