zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
authorSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:46:39 +0000 (16:46 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:52:40 +0000 (17:52 +0200)
commit5274bf1f743f604a4e994f0ce1879575b9848aa7
treec6f134e86993020934b02f3610bd25fcec637b32
parentd4008eadfce5d7791bf078f5e51ba5b735fd8c09
zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context

commit d2658f2052c7db6ec0a79977205f8cf1cb9effc2 upstream.

zsmalloc pool can be compacted concurrently by many contexts,
e.g.

 cc1 handle_mm_fault()
      do_anonymous_page()
       __alloc_pages_slowpath()
        try_to_free_pages()
         do_try_to_free_pages(
          lru_gen_shrink_node()
           shrink_slab()
            do_shrink_slab()
             zs_shrinker_scan()
              zs_compact()

Pool compaction is currently (basically) single-threaded as
it is performed under pool->lock. Having multiple compaction
threads results in unnecessary contention, as each thread
competes for pool->lock. This, in turn, affects all zsmalloc
operations such as zs_malloc(), zs_map_object(), zs_free(), etc.

Introduce the pool->compaction_in_progress atomic variable,
which ensures that only one compaction context can run at a
time. This reduces overall pool->lock contention in (corner)
cases when many contexts attempt to shrink zspool simultaneously.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418074639.1903197-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Fixes: c0547d0b6a4b ("zsmalloc: consolidate zs_pool's migrate_lock and size_class's locks")
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/zsmalloc.c