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				With the latest mm-unstable, setting the iaa_crypto sync_mode to 'async'
causes crypto testmgr.c test_acomp() failure and dmesg call traces, and
zswap being unable to use 'deflate-iaa' as a compressor:
echo async > /sys/bus/dsa/drivers/crypto/sync_mode
[  255.271030] zswap: compressor deflate-iaa not available
[  369.960673] INFO: task cryptomgr_test:4889 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[  369.970127]       Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-mm-unstable-12-16-2024+ #324
[  369.977411] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[  369.986246] task:cryptomgr_test  state:D stack:0     pid:4889  tgid:4889  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
[  369.986253] Call Trace:
[  369.986256]  <TASK>
[  369.986260]  __schedule+0x45c/0xfa0
[  369.986273]  schedule+0x2e/0xb0
[  369.986277]  schedule_timeout+0xe7/0x100
[  369.986284]  ? __prepare_to_swait+0x4e/0x70
[  369.986290]  wait_for_completion+0x8d/0x120
[  369.986293]  test_acomp+0x284/0x670
[  369.986305]  ? __pfx_cryptomgr_test+0x10/0x10
[  369.986312]  alg_test_comp+0x263/0x440
[  369.986315]  ? sched_balance_newidle+0x259/0x430
[  369.986320]  ? __pfx_cryptomgr_test+0x10/0x10
[  369.986323]  alg_test.part.27+0x103/0x410
[  369.986326]  ? __schedule+0x464/0xfa0
[  369.986330]  ? __pfx_cryptomgr_test+0x10/0x10
[  369.986333]  cryptomgr_test+0x20/0x40
[  369.986336]  kthread+0xda/0x110
[  369.986344]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  369.986346]  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x40
[  369.986355]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  369.986358]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[  369.986365]  </TASK>
This happens because the only async polling without interrupts that
iaa_crypto currently implements is with the 'sync' mode. With 'async',
iaa_crypto calls to compress/decompress submit the descriptor and return
-EINPROGRESS, without any mechanism in the driver to poll for
completions. Hence callers such as test_acomp() in crypto/testmgr.c or
zswap, that wrap the calls to crypto_acomp_compress() and
crypto_acomp_decompress() in synchronous wrappers, will block
indefinitely. Even before zswap can notice this problem, the crypto
testmgr.c's test_acomp() will fail and prevent registration of
"deflate-iaa" as a valid crypto acomp algorithm, thereby disallowing the
use of "deflate-iaa" as a zswap compress (zswap will fall-back to the
default compressor in this case).
To fix this issue, this patch modifies the iaa_crypto sync_mode set
function to treat 'async' equivalent to 'sync', so that the correct and
only supported driver async polling without interrupts implementation is
enabled, and zswap can use 'deflate-iaa' as the compressor.
Hence, with this patch, this is what will happen:
echo async > /sys/bus/dsa/drivers/crypto/sync_mode
cat /sys/bus/dsa/drivers/crypto/sync_mode
sync
There are no crypto/testmgr.c test_acomp() errors, no call traces and zswap
can use 'deflate-iaa' without any errors. The iaa_crypto documentation has
also been updated to mention this caveat with 'async' and what to expect
with this fix.
True iaa_crypto async polling without interrupts is enabled in patch
"crypto: iaa - Implement batch_compress(), batch_decompress() API in
iaa_crypto." [1] which is under review as part of the "zswap IAA compress
batching" patch-series [2]. Until this is merged, we would appreciate it if
this current patch can be considered for a hotfix.
[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/20241221063119.29140-5-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com/
[2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=920084
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