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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: mawupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Cc: 21cnbao@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
	kasong@tencent.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com, chrisl@kernel.org,
	huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com, schatzberg.dan@gmail.com,
	hanchuanhua@oppo.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: swap: Avoid infinite loop if no valid swap entry found during do_swap_page
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:22:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z7vz7gBrbtE4foSI@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61566a74-04aa-44f1-9aa9-624644f06450@huawei.com>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 09:27:38AM +0800, mawupeng wrote:
> On 2025/2/23 14:18, Barry Song wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 11:59:53AM +0800, mawupeng wrote:
> >>> On 2025/2/22 11:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:46:17AM +0800, Wupeng Ma wrote:
> >>>>> Digging into the source, we found that the swap entry is invalid due to
> >>>>> unknown reason, and this lead to invalid swap_info_struct. Excessive log
> >>>>> printing can fill up the prioritized log space, leading to the purging of
> >>>>> originally valid logs and hindering problem troubleshooting. To make this
> >>>>> more robust, kill this task.
> 
> Yes, log flooding is not the main issue here, endless #PF is rather a more serious
> problem.

Then don't write the report as if the log flooding is the real problem.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-24  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-22  2:46 Wupeng Ma
2025-02-22  3:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-02-22  3:59   ` mawupeng
2025-02-23  2:42     ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-02-23  6:09       ` Barry Song
2025-02-23  6:18       ` Barry Song
2025-02-24  1:27         ` mawupeng
2025-02-24  4:22           ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-02-24  7:11           ` Barry Song
2025-02-24 15:37             ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-02-22  7:33 ` Kairui Song
2025-02-22  7:41   ` mawupeng
2025-02-22  8:02     ` Kairui Song
2025-02-22  9:58       ` Barry Song
2025-02-23  2:38 ` kernel test robot
2025-02-23  2:50 ` kernel test robot

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