From 1284b75d1ec44176f8ee15d11b621cbbf5614d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Senozhatsky Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:36:14 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] zram: clear IDLE flag after recompression 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: 84b33bf78889 ("zram: introduce recompress sysfs knob") Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reported-by: Shin Kawamura Acked-by: Brian Geffon Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c index e6d12e81241d..a16dbffcdca3 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -1864,6 +1864,13 @@ static int recompress_slot(struct zram *zram, u32 index, struct page *page, if (ret) return ret; + /* + * We touched this entry so mark it as non-IDLE. This makes sure that + * we don't preserve IDLE flag and don't incorrectly pick this entry + * for different post-processing type (e.g. writeback). + */ + zram_clear_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE); + class_index_old = zs_lookup_class_index(zram->mem_pool, comp_len_old); /* * Iterate the secondary comp algorithms list (in order of priority) -- 2.49.0