Re: bisected bd4c82c22c367e is the first bad commit (was [Bug 198617] New: zswap causing random applications to crash)

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Feb 05 2018 - 07:43:40 EST


On (02/05/18 21:39), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > I have successfully reproduced the issue and find the problem. The
> > following patch fix the issue for me, can you try it?
>
> That was quick ;)
>
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> > From 4c52d531680f91572ebc6f4525a018e32a934ef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:27:43 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] fontswap thp fix
>
> Seems to be fixing the problem on my x86 box. Executed several tests, no
> crashes were observed. Can run more tests tomorrow.
>
>
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>
> Probably unrelated, but may be it is related: my X server used to hang
> sometimes (rarely) which I suspect was/is caused by nouveau driver. It,
> surprisingly, didn't hang this time around. Nouveau spitted a number
> of backtraces, but X server managed to survive it. Any chance that
> nouveau-X server thing was caused by THP?

No, wait. How could it be... I don't even use frontswap usually.
Sorry for the silly question.

-ss