Messages in this thread | | | From | Nhat Pham <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] zsmalloc: Add ops fields to zs_pool to store evict handlers | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:36:25 -0800 |
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Essentially, the zpool constructor allows us to set things up with a null struct zpool, zpool_ops, or zpool_ops->evict, which we have to handle. A similar null-handling pattern can be observed in zbud (mm/zbud.c) and z3fold (mm/z3fold.c) - see zbud_zpool_evict and zbud_zpool_create for e.g.
In particular:
1. pool->zpool_ops is the ops (containing the evict handler zpool_ops->evict) passed into the zpool constructor (zs_zpool_create)
2. pool->ops/zs_zpool_ops (struct zs_ops) is a struct wrapping zs_zpool_evict, which itself is a wrapper for the zpool evict handler (pool->zpool_ops->evict). zs_zpool_evict also handles the case where zpool or zpool_ops is null, or zpool_ops->evict is not defined (i.e return -ENOENT).
FWIW, I do think this is quite convoluted. In the long run, we might want to simplify this design, but for this patch series I think it is wise to err on the safe side and follow the other two allocators' design for consistency.
That said, while staring at the code again, I found a bug - in the case pool->zpool_ops is null, pool->ops is undefined garbage. The v3 patch will fix that to follow zbud's pattern (pool->ops = NULL in this case).
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