From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCHv5 06/13] zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 20:50:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221109115047.2921851-7-senozhatsky@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221109115047.2921851-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Re-phrase writeback BIO error comment.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
---
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 560e2932021e..a5d2ce0bcd5d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -772,8 +772,12 @@ 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;
--
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-09 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-09 11:50 [PATCHv5 00/13] zram: Support multiple compression streams Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 01/13] zram: Preparation for multi-zcomp support Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 02/13] zram: Add recompression algorithm sysfs knob Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 03/13] zram: Factor out WB and non-WB zram read functions Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 04/13] zram: Introduce recompress sysfs knob Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-10 13:09 ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-11-10 14:31 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-10 14:38 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-10 15:18 ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-11-10 14:34 ` [PATCH] zram: we should always zero out err variable in recompress loop Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-14 2:14 ` [PATCH] zram: explicitly limit prio_max for static analyzers Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-15 0:41 ` Andrew Morton
2022-11-15 0:47 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 05/13] zram: Add recompress flag to read_block_state() Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 07/13] zram: Use IS_ERR_VALUE() to check for zs_malloc() errors Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 08/13] zram: add size class equals check into recompression Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 09/13] zram: remove redundant checks from zram_recompress() Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 10/13] zram: Add algo parameter support to zram_recompress() Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 11/13] documentation: Add zram recompression documentation Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 12/13] zram: add incompressible writeback Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 11:50 ` [PATCHv5 13/13] zram: Add incompressible flag to read_block_state() Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-11-09 21:46 ` [PATCHv5 00/13] zram: Support multiple compression streams Minchan Kim
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