linux-kernel - Re: zram corruption due to uninitialized do_swap

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Date:   Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:30:09 -0700
From:   Ivan Babrou <ivan@...udflare.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...udflare.com>
Subject: Re: zram corruption due to uninitialized do_swap_page fault

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:26 AM Ivan Babrou <ivan@...udflare.com> wrote:
> I'm making an internal build and will push it to some location to see
> how it behaves, but it might take a few days to get any sort of
> confidence in the results (unless it breaks immediately).
>
> I've also pushed my patch that disables SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO to a few
> locations yesterday to see how it fares.

I have some updates before the weekend. There are two experimental groups:

* My patch that removes the SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO flag. There are 704
machines in this group across 5 datacenters with cumulative uptime of
916 days.
* Minchan's patch to remove swap_slot_free_notify. There are 376
machines in this group across 3 datacenters with cumulative uptime of
240 days.

Our machines take a couple of hours to start swapping anything after
boot, and I discounted these two hours from the cumulative uptime.

Neither of these two groups experienced unexpected coredumps or
rocksdb corruptions.

I think at this point it's reasonable to proceed with Minchan's patch
(including a backport).