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Patch series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes", v2.
zram can wrongly preserve ZRAM_IDLE flag on its entries which can result
in premature post-processing (writeback and recompression) of such
entries.
This patch (of 2)
Recompression should clear ZRAM_IDLE flag on the entries it has accessed,
because otherwise some entries, specifically those for which recompression
has failed, become immediate candidate entries for another post-processing
(e.g. writeback).
Consider the following case:
- recompression marks entries IDLE every 4 hours and attempts
to recompress them
- some entries are incompressible, so we keep them intact and
hence preserve IDLE flag
- writeback marks entries IDLE every 8 hours and writebacks
IDLE entries, however we have IDLE entries left from
recompression, so writeback prematurely writebacks those
entries.
The bug was reported by Shin Kawamura.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028153629.1479791-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028153629.1479791-2-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Fixes: 84b33bf788 ("zram: introduce recompress sysfs knob")
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Shin Kawamura <kawasin@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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