Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753708AbaGHPCo (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 11:02:44 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33341 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581AbaGHPCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 11:02:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:02:26 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim , Sasha Levin , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Nitin Gupta , Jerome Marchand , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.15 093/122] zram: revalidate disk after capacity change Message-ID: <20140708150226.GA4113@kroah.com> References: <20140707235734.234226883@linuxfoundation.org> <20140707235737.041217860@linuxfoundation.org> <20140708105617.GA947@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140708105617.GA947@swordfish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:56:17PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (07/07/14 16:57), Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:57:35 -0700 > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , > > stable@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim , "Alexander E. > > Patrakov" , Sergey Senozhatsky > > , Nitin Gupta , Jerome > > Marchand , Andrew Morton , > > Linus Torvalds > > Subject: [PATCH 3.15 093/122] zram: revalidate disk after capacity change > > X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0.254.g50f84e3 > > User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 > > > > 3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Minchan Kim > > > > commit 2e32baea46ce542c561a519414c840295b229c8f upstream. > > > > Alexander reported mkswap on /dev/zram0 is failed if other process is > > opening the block device file. > > > > 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 > > Reported-by: Alexander E. Patrakov > > Tested-by: Alexander E. Patrakov > > Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky > > Cc: Nitin Gupta > > Acked-by: Jerome Marchand > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Hello, > > this patch is known to cause problems. please see > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/3/885 Did the fix ever get merged to Linus's tree? If not, why not? I'd rather just take that fix as well. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/