linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration

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Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 16:12:01 -0700
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@...neltoast.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Fix races between asynchronous zspage free and
 page migration

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 01:43:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2022 12:50:20 -0700 Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@...neltoast.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Shouldn't the fix be Fixes: 77ff465799c6 ("zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: skip
> > > unnecessary loops but not return -EBUSY if zspage is not inuse)?
> > > Because we didn't migrate ZS_EMPTY pages before.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Yeah, 77ff465799c6 indeed seems like the commit that introduced the bug.
> 
> I updated the changelog, thanks.

Thanhks, Andrew.

Feel free to include my

Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>