Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934161AbZC0BEX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:04:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934041AbZC0BDz (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:03:55 -0400 Received: from mail001.aei.ca ([206.123.6.130]:42693 "EHLO mail001.aei.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934037AbZC0BDx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:03:53 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson To: ngupta@vflare.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take3 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:03:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.29-crc-00006-gcff995c; KDE/4.2.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <49C92E14.5060802@vflare.org> In-Reply-To: <49C92E14.5060802@vflare.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903262103.47919.edt@aei.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4562 Lines: 70 On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:01:40 Nitin Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > Project home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ I applied this to 2.6.29 and its not working correctly I end up with lots of: [69054.063788] Write-error on swap-device (254:0:13912) [69054.063820] Write-error on swap-device (254:0:13920) [69054.063853] Write-error on swap-device (254:0:13928) [69054.063888] Write-error on swap-device (254:0:13936) [69054.063904] Write-error on swap-device (254:0:13944) type messages and trying to cat /proc/ramzswap causes an opps [85235.133090] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [85235.133510] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0/enable [85235.133510] CPU 0 [85235.133510] Modules linked in: ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables x_tables btrfs zlib_deflate zlib_inflate crc32c libcrc32c radeon drm ramzswap xvmalloc lzo_decompress lzo_compress bridge stp llc rfcomm bnep l2cap bluetooth tun sit tunnel4 ipv6 af_packet snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss lgdt330x em28xx_dvb dvb_core em28xx_alsa tuner_xc2028 edac_core tuner tvp5150 kvm_amd v4l2_common kvm video1394 sbp2 em28xx ir_common videodev v4l2_compat_ioctl32 videobuf_vmalloc videobuf_core tveeprom i2c_core pl2303 usbserial usbhid snd_hda_codec_atihdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec sr_mod usb_storage cdrom snd_pcm ohci1394 snd_timer ieee1394 psmouse snd ata_generic thermal sky2 processor wmi button soundcore pata_atiixp rtc snd_page_alloc pcspkr ehci_hcd ohci_hcd evdev unix [last unloaded: floppy] [85235.217935] Pid: 3910, comm: cat Not tainted 2.6.29-crc-00006-gcff995c #5 System Product Name [85235.217935] RIP: 0010:[] [] proc_ramzswap_read+0xe6/0x1e0 [ramzswap] [85235.217935] RSP: 0018:ffff8800ce1a3dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [85235.217935] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000002c RCX: 00000000000006b5 [85235.217935] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000064 [85235.217935] RBP: ffff8800ce1a3e48 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 0000000000000665 [85235.217935] R10: ffff8800ed84f015 R11: ffff8800ce1a3ce8 R12: ffff8800ce1a3e8c [85235.217935] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88006d84f000 R15: 0000000000665000 [85235.217935] FS: 00007fb6ae1e66f0(0000) GS:ffffffff8073c040(0000) knlGS:00000000f071bb90 [85235.217935] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [85235.217935] CR2: 000000000060c438 CR3: 0000000007bae000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [85235.217935] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [85235.217935] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [85235.217935] Process cat (pid: 3910, threadinfo ffff8800ce1a2000, task ffff880148071620) [85235.217935] Stack: [85235.217935] 000a00d0000800d0 0000000000000001 0000000200000010 0000000000000000 [85235.217935] ffffffff806b5f88 ffffffff8050ca15 ffff880149029a80 0000000000000001 [85235.217935] ffff8801445e4060 0000000000000000 0000000000000400 0000000000000000 [85235.217935] Call Trace: [85235.217935] [] ? do_page_fault+0x345/0xa90 [85235.217935] [] proc_file_read+0x1af/0x2e0 [85235.217935] [] ? proc_file_read+0x0/0x2e0 [85235.217935] [] proc_reg_read+0x7c/0xc0 [85235.217935] [] vfs_read+0xc8/0x180 [85235.217935] [] sys_read+0x50/0x90 [85235.217935] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [85235.217935] Code: 0d 20 27 00 00 4c 39 c9 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8b 05 31 27 00 00 41 b8 64 00 00 00 8b 35 21 27 00 00 31 d2 bf 64 00 00 00 41 0f af c0 f6 31 d2 41 89 c2 8b 05 11 27 00 00 0f af c7 f7 f6 41 89 c0 [85235.217935] RIP [] proc_ramzswap_read+0xe6/0x1e0 [ramzswap] [85235.217935] RSP [85235.218474] ---[ end trace aa4e537802c34b22 ]--- System is amd64 with 3 cpus, 8G with hugepa and page migration enabled and used by java (always active) and kvm (on demand). I start it with (sdb2 is a 1G swapfile): modprobe ramzswap backing_swap=/dev/sdb2 swapon /dev/ramzswap0 -p 100 After its loaded /proc/ramzcat works. Once I've seen write error on swapdevice message it fails. I would love to see this working. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson -- 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/