From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
To: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Li <chriscli@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/zswap: don't return LRU_SKIP if we have dropped lru lock
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:58:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbhJnIQRjTn9ME1k@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKEwX=MxRTupSoYbnr14wTurbBhJ7KipV3YuEofab2JJxsk3cg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 04:12:54PM -0800, Nhat Pham wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 01:28:49PM +0000, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> > > LRU_SKIP can only be returned if we don't ever dropped lru lock, or
> > > we need to return LRU_RETRY to restart from the head of lru list.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, the iteration might continue from a cursor position that
> > > was freed while the locks were dropped.
> >
> > Does this warrant a stable backport?
>
> IUC, the zswap shrinker was merged in 6.8, and we're still in the RC's
> for 6.8, right? If this patch goes into 6.8 then no need?
> Otherwise, yeah it should go to 6.8 stable IMHO.
For some reason I thought the shrinker went into v6.7, my bad. Then I
guess it should only go into v6.8.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-30 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-28 13:28 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/zswap: fix race between lru writeback and swapoff Chengming Zhou
2024-01-28 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/zswap: don't return LRU_SKIP if we have dropped lru lock Chengming Zhou
2024-01-30 0:09 ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-01-30 0:12 ` Nhat Pham
2024-01-30 0:58 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2024-01-28 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/zswap: fix race between lru writeback and swapoff Chengming Zhou
2024-01-30 0:22 ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-01-30 2:30 ` Chengming Zhou
2024-01-30 3:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2024-01-30 3:31 ` Chengming Zhou
2024-01-28 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/list_lru: remove list_lru_putback() Chengming Zhou
2024-01-28 15:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2024-01-28 19:45 ` Nhat Pham
2024-01-30 0:34 ` Yosry Ahmed
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