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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, ngupta@vflare.org,
	minchan@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	senozhatsky@chromium.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [to-be-updated] zram-clarify-writeback_store-comment.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:04:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221109040430.11053C433C1@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: zram: clarify writeback_store() comment
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     zram-clarify-writeback_store-comment.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged

------------------------------------------------------
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Subject: zram: clarify writeback_store() comment
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:55:32 +0900

Re-phrase writeback BIO error comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018045533.2396670-9-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-clarify-writeback_store-comment
+++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -755,8 +755,12 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct de
 			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;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from senozhatsky@chromium.org are

zram-use-is_err_value-to-check-for-zs_malloc-errors.patch
zsmalloc-turn-zspage-order-into-runtime-variable.patch
zsmalloc-move-away-from-page-order-defines.patch
zsmalloc-make-huge-class-watermark-zs_pool-member.patch
zram-huge-size-watermark-cannot-be-global.patch
zsmalloc-pass-limit-on-pages-per-zspage-to-zs_create_pool.patch
zram-add-pages_per_pool_page-device-attribute.patch
documentation-document-zram-pages_per_pool_page-attribute.patch
zsmalloc-break-out-of-loop-when-found-perfect-zspage-order.patch


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