From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: do not slot_free() written-back slots
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:43:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abxR1Pm-JksGZYly@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260319034912.1894770-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:44:56PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> slot_free() basically completely resets the slots by clearing
> all of its flags and attributes. While zram_writeback_complete()
> restores some of flags back (those that are necessary for async
> read decompression) we still lose a lot of slot's metadata. For
> example, slot's ac-time, or ZRAM_INCOMPRESSIBLE.
>
> Do not slot_free() on writeback, instead clear only those
> flags/attrs that we need to clear.
>
> Fixes: d38fab605c667 ("zram: introduce compressed data writeback")
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
With small nit about the description in previous comment,
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 3:44 [PATCH] zram: do not slot_free() written-back slots Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-03-19 4:05 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-03-19 6:47 ` Richard Chang
2026-03-19 7:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2026-03-19 17:59 ` Minchan Kim
2026-03-19 19:43 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
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