Re: zram corruption due to uninitialized do_swap_page fault

[Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:26 AM Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.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).