Re: [merged] zram-revalidate-disk-after-capacity-change.patch removed from -mm tree

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On (07/07/14 11:11), akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:11:22 -0700
> From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: minchan@xxxxxxxxxx, jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx, ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx,
>  patrakov@xxxxxxxxx, sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>  mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [merged] zram-revalidate-disk-after-capacity-change.patch removed
>  from -mm tree
> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10
> 
> 
> The patch titled
>      Subject: zram: revalidate disk after capacity change
> has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
>      zram-revalidate-disk-after-capacity-change.patch
> 
> This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: zram: revalidate disk after capacity change
> 
> Alexander reported mkswap on /dev/zram0 is failed if other process is
> opening the block device file.

Hello,
this patch is known to cause problems. please see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/3/885

	-ss

> Step is as follows,
> 
> 0. Reset the unused zram device.
> 1. Use a program that opens /dev/zram0 with O_RDWR and sleeps
>    until killed.
> 2. While that program sleeps, echo the correct value to
>    /sys/block/zram0/disksize.
> 3. Verify (e.g. in /proc/partitions) that the disk size is applied
>    correctly. It is.
> 4. While that program still sleeps, attempt to mkswap /dev/zram0.
>    This fails: mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB
> 
> When I investigated, the size get by ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, xxx) on
> mkswap to get a size of blockdev was zero although zram0 has right size by
> 2.
> 
> The reason is zram didn't revalidate disk after changing capacity so that
> size of blockdev's inode is not uptodate until all of file is close.
> 
> This patch should fix the BUG.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -puN drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-revalidate-disk-after-capacity-change drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-revalidate-disk-after-capacity-change
> +++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -622,8 +622,10 @@ static void zram_reset_device(struct zra
>  	memset(&zram->stats, 0, sizeof(zram->stats));
>  
>  	zram->disksize = 0;
> -	if (reset_capacity)
> +	if (reset_capacity) {
>  		set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
> +		revalidate_disk(zram->disk);
> +	}
>  	up_write(&zram->init_lock);
>  }
>  
> @@ -664,6 +666,7 @@ static ssize_t disksize_store(struct dev
>  	zram->comp = comp;
>  	zram->disksize = disksize;
>  	set_capacity(zram->disk, zram->disksize >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
> +	revalidate_disk(zram->disk);
>  	up_write(&zram->init_lock);
>  	return len;
>  
> _
> 
> Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are
> 
> dma-cma-separate-core-cma-management-codes-from-dma-apis.patch
> dma-cma-support-alignment-constraint-on-cma-region.patch
> dma-cma-support-arbitrary-bitmap-granularity.patch
> dma-cma-support-arbitrary-bitmap-granularity-fix.patch
> cma-generalize-cma-reserved-area-management-functionality.patch
> ppc-kvm-cma-use-general-cma-reserved-area-management-framework.patch
> mm-cma-clean-up-cma-allocation-error-path.patch
> mm-cma-change-cma_declare_contiguous-to-obey-coding-convention.patch
> mm-cma-clean-up-log-message.patch
> mm-vmscan-remove-remains-of-kswapd-managed-zone-all_unreclaimable.patch
> mm-vmscan-rework-compaction-ready-signaling-in-direct-reclaim.patch
> mm-vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable.patch
> mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch
> mm-compactionc-isolate_freepages_block-small-tuneup.patch
> zram-rename-struct-table-to-zram_table_entry.patch
> zram-remove-unused-sector_size-define.patch
> zram-use-size_t-instead-of-u16.patch
> zram-remove-global-tb_lock-with-fine-grain-lock.patch
> mm-zbud-zbud_alloc-minor-param-change.patch
> mm-zbud-change-zbud_alloc-size-type-to-size_t.patch
> mm-zpool-implement-common-zpool-api-to-zbud-zsmalloc.patch
> mm-zpool-zbud-zsmalloc-implement-zpool.patch
> mm-zpool-update-zswap-to-use-zpool.patch
> mm-zpool-prevent-zbud-zsmalloc-from-unloading-when-used.patch
> debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch
> page-owners-correct-page-order-when-to-free-page.patch
> 
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