linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: zswap: increase reject_compress_poor but not reject_compress

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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:52:18 +0700
From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hannes@...xchg.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	zhouchengming@...edance.com, senozhatsky@...omium.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: zswap: increase reject_compress_poor but not
 reject_compress_fail if compression returns ENOSPC

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 12:36 PM Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
>
> We used to rely on the returned -ENOSPC of zpool_malloc() to increase
> reject_compress_poor. But the code wouldn't get to there after commit
> 744e1885922a ("crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow") as the
> new code will goto out immediately after the special compression case
> happens. So there might be no longer a chance to execute zpool_malloc
> now. We are incorrectly increasing zswap_reject_compress_fail instead.
> Thus, we need to fix the counters handling right after compressions
> return ENOSPC. This patch also centralizes the counters handling for
> all of compress_poor, compress_fail and alloc_fail.
>
> Fixes: 744e1885922a ("crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow")
> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>

LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>