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Currently, we crash the kernel when a decompression failure occurs in zswap (either because of memory corruption, or a bug in the compression algorithm). This is overkill. We should only SIGBUS the unfortunate process asking for the zswap entry on zswap load, and skip the corrupted entry in zswap writeback. See [1] for a recent upstream discussion about this. The zswap writeback case is relatively straightforward to fix. For the zswap_load() case, we change the return behavior: * Return 0 on success. * Return -ENOENT (with the folio locked) if zswap does not own the swapped out content. * Return -EIO if zswap owns the swapped out content, but encounters a decompression failure for some reasons. The folio will be unlocked, but not be marked up-to-date, which will eventually cause the process requesting the page to SIGBUS (see the handling of not-up-to-date folio in do_swap_page() in mm/memory.c), without crashing the kernel. * Return -EINVAL if we encounter a large folio, as large folio should not be swapped in while zswap is being used. Similar to the -EIO case, we also unlock the folio but do not mark it as up-to-date to SIGBUS the faulting process. As a side effect, we require one extra zswap tree traversal in the load and writeback paths. Quick benchmarking on a kernel build test shows no performance difference: With the new scheme: real: mean: 125.1s, stdev: 0.12s user: mean: 3265.23s, stdev: 9.62s sys: mean: 2156.41s, stdev: 13.98s The old scheme: real: mean: 125.78s, stdev: 0.45s user: mean: 3287.18s, stdev: 5.95s sys: mean: 2177.08s, stdev: 26.52s [nphamcs@gmail.com: fix documentation of zswap_load()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250306222453.1269456-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZsiLElTykamcYZ6J@casper.infradead.org/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250306205011.784787-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.