[PATCHv4 8/9] zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Oct 18 2022 - 00:56:56 EST


Re-phrase writeback BIO error comment.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 5d760467e0bc..6b56f6f2ce82 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -758,8 +758,12 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
zram_clear_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE);
zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
/*
- * Return last IO error unless every IO were
- * not suceeded.
+ * BIO errors are not fatal, we continue and simply
+ * attempt to writeback the remaining objects (pages).
+ * At the same time we need to signal user-space that
+ * some writes (at least one, but also could be all of
+ * them) were not successful and we do so by returning
+ * the most recent BIO error.
*/
ret = err;
continue;
--
2.38.0.413.g74048e4d9e-goog