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From:   "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bisected bd4c82c22c367e is the first bad commit (was [Bug 198617] New: zswap causing random applications to crash)
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Date:   Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:42:23 +0800
In-Reply-To: <20180205013758.GA648@jagdpanzerIV> (Sergey Senozhatsky's message
        of "Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:37:58 +0900")
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Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On (02/04/18 22:21), huang ying wrote:
> [..]
>> >> After disabling zswap no crashes at all.
>> >>
>> >> /etc/systemd/swap.conf
>> >> zswap_enabled=1
>> >> zswap_compressor=lz4      # lzo lz4
>> >> zswap_max_pool_percent=25 # 1-99
>> >> zswap_zpool=zbud          # zbud z3fold
>> >
> [..]
>> Can you give me some detailed steps to reproduce this?  Like the
>> kernel configuration file, swap configuration, etc.  Any kernel
>> WARNING during testing?  Can you reproduce this with a real swap
>> device instead of zswap?
>
> No warnings (at least no warnings with my .config). Tested it only with
> zram based swap (I'm running swap-less x86 systems, so zram is the easiest
> way). It seems it's THP + frontswap that makes things unstable, rather
> than THP + swap.
>
> Kernel zswap boot params:
> zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 zswap.max_pool_percent=10 zswap.zpool=zbud
>
> Then I add a 4G zram swap and run a silly memory hogger. I don't think
> you'll have any problems reproducing it, but just in case I attached my
> .config

Thanks for your information!  I will try to reproduce it today!

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> 	-ss