Re: [PATCH v4] btrfs: Use larger zlib buffer for s390 hardware compression

From: David Sterba
Date: Tue Jan 14 2020 - 11:19:48 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:03:29AM +0100, Zaslonko Mikhail wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> On 09.01.2020 02:10, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:48:31PM +0100, Zaslonko Mikhail wrote:
> >>>> +        } else if (workspace->strm.avail_out == 0) {
> >>>> +            /* get another page for the stream end */
> >>>> +            kunmap(out_page);
> >>>> +            if (nr_pages == nr_dest_pages) {
> >>>> +                out_page = NULL;
> >>>> +                ret = -E2BIG;
> >>>> +                goto out;
> >>>> +            }
> >>>> +            out_page = alloc_page(GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
> >>>> +            if (out_page == NULL) {
> >>>> +                ret = -ENOMEM;
> >>>> +                goto out;
> >>>> +            }
> >>>
> >>> Do we need zlib_deflateEnd() for the above error cases?  Thanks,
> >>
> >> The original btrfs code did not call zlib_deflateEnd() for -E2BIG and
> >> -ENOMEM cases, so I stick to the same logic.
> >> Unlike userspace zlib where deflateEnd() frees all dynamically allocated
> >> memory, in the kernel it doesn't do much apart from setting the return
> >> code (since all the memory allocations for kernel zlib are performed in advance).
> >
> > Agreed, deflateEnd is not necessary in the error cases.
>
> Can I consider this as 'Acked-by' from your side?

Yes, I also sent rev-by to the patch.