Re: [PATCH] driver: zram: fix wrong counting on pages_store

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:53 AM Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 10:27:40AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (21/07/20 14:47), Huangzhaoyang wrote:
> > > It makes the statistic confused when counting pages_store in during writeback.
> > > pages_store should just reflect the swapped pages on ZRAM, while bd_writes be
> > > responsible for writeback things.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 1 -
> > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > > index cf8deec..6bdaa9d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> > > @@ -765,7 +765,6 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
> > >             zram_set_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_WB);
> > >             zram_set_element(zram, index, blk_idx);
> > >             blk_idx = 0;
> > > -           atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.pages_stored);
> >
> > Yeah, I think we don't need it here.
> >
> > Minchan, what do you think?
>
> What pages_stored currently represents is orig_data_size from mm_stat
>
>  ================ =============================================================
>  orig_data_size   uncompressed size of data stored in this disk.
>                   Unit: bytes
>
> Thus, if we don't increase it after zram_free_page, it loses what's
> the original data size which would be important to calculate
> compression ratio along with compr_data_size.
zram_free_page??  What the commit try to fix is pages_stored being
increased incorrectly in writeback_store, which will lead to wrong
statistic on orig size of ZRAM.




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