From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>,
juno.choi@lge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] mm: add full variable in swap_info_struct
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:45:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140922134522.00725f561fdae318446a41cb@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411344191-2842-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:03:08 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> Now, swap leans on !p->highest_bit to indicate a swap is full.
> It works well for normal swap because every slot on swap device
> is used up when the swap is full but in case of zram, swap sees
> still many empty slot although backed device(ie, zram) is full
> since zram's limit is over so that it could make trouble when
> swap use highest_bit to select new slot via free_cluster.
>
> This patch introduces full varaiable in swap_info_struct
> to solve the problem.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ struct swap_info_struct {
> struct swap_cluster_info free_cluster_tail; /* free cluster list tail */
> unsigned int lowest_bit; /* index of first free in swap_map */
> unsigned int highest_bit; /* index of last free in swap_map */
> + bool full; /* whether swap is full or not */
This is protected by swap_info_struct.lock, I worked out.
There's a large comment at swap_info_struct.lock which could be updated.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-22 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 0:03 [PATCH v1 0/5] stop anon reclaim when zram is full Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 0:03 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] zram: generalize swap_slot_free_notify Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 20:41 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-23 4:45 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 0:03 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] mm: add full variable in swap_info_struct Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 20:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-09-23 4:45 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-24 2:53 ` Dan Streetman
2014-09-24 7:57 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 0:03 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] mm: VM can be aware of zram fullness Minchan Kim
2014-09-24 14:12 ` Dan Streetman
2014-09-25 1:06 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-25 1:31 ` Dan Streetman
2014-09-22 0:03 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] zram: add swap full hint Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-23 4:56 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-23 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-24 7:57 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-24 15:10 ` Jerome Marchand
2014-09-25 1:07 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-24 14:01 ` Dan Streetman
2014-09-25 1:02 ` Minchan Kim
2014-09-25 15:52 ` Dan Streetman
2014-10-06 23:36 ` Minchan Kim
2014-10-06 23:46 ` Minchan Kim
2014-10-08 18:29 ` Dan Streetman
2014-09-22 0:03 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] zram: add fullness knob to control swap full Minchan Kim
2014-09-22 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-23 4:57 ` Minchan Kim
2014-12-02 3:04 ` [PATCH v1 0/5] stop anon reclaim when zram is full Minchan Kim
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