Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm/zswap: remove duplicate_entry debug value

[Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 7:50 AM Chengming Zhou
<zhouchengming@bytedance.com> wrote:
>
> cat /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/duplicate_entry
> 2086447
>
> When testing, the duplicate_entry value is very high, but no warning
> message in the kernel log. From the comment of duplicate_entry
> "Duplicate store was encountered (rare)", it seems something goes wrong.
>
> Actually it's incremented in the beginning of zswap_store(), which found
> its zswap entry has already on the tree. And this is a normal case,
> since the folio could leave zswap entry on the tree after swapin,
> later it's dirtied and swapout/zswap_store again, found its original
> zswap entry. (Maybe we can reuse it instead of invalidating it?)
>
> So duplicate_entry should be only incremented in the real bug case,
> which already have "WARN_ON(1)", it looks redundant to count bug case,
> so this patch just remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>