Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: move LRU update from zs_map_object() to zs_malloc()

[Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:14 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri,  5 May 2023 11:50:54 -0700 Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Under memory pressure, we sometimes observe the following crash:
> >
> > [ 5694.832838] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [ 5694.842093] list_del corruption, ffff888014b6a448->next is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100)
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Am I correct in believing that we should backport this fix into earlier
> kernels?
>
> And that a suitable Fixes: target is 64f768c6b32e ("zsmalloc: add a LRU
> to zs_pool to keep track of zspages in LRU order)"?
>

Hi Andrew,

For both questions - yes I believe so too!