Re: ext2/zram issue [was: Linux 5.19]

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Aug 09 2022 - 04:43:36 EST


On (22/08/09 10:12), Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > So currently, I blame:
> > commit e7be8d1dd983156bbdd22c0319b71119a8fbb697
> > Author: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu May 12 20:23:07 2022 -0700
> >
> >     zram: remove double compression logic
> >
> >
> > /me needs to confirm.
>
> With that commit reverted, I see no more I/O errors, only oom-killer
> messages (which is OK IMO, provided I write 1G of urandom on a machine w/
> 800M of RAM):

Hmm... So handle allocation always succeeds in the slow path? (when we
try to allocate it second time)