Re: [PATCH 0/1] Possible bug in zram on ppc64le on vfat

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Nov 28 2022 - 23:38:43 EST


On (22/11/22 16:07), Petr Vorel wrote:
> > On 11. 11. 22 1:48, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > On (22/11/10 15:29), Martin Doucha wrote:

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> > > Can you try using /dev/urandom for dd, not /dev/zero?
> > > Do you still see zeroes in sysfs output or some random values?
>
> > After 50 test runs on a kernel where the issue is confirmed, I could not
> > reproduce the failure while filling the device from /dev/urandom instead of
> > /dev/zero. The test reported compression ratio around 1.8-2.5 which means
> > the memory usage reported by mm_stat was 10-13MB.
>
> Martin, thanks a lot for reruning tests. I wonder problems on /dev/zero is a
> kernel bug or just problem which should be workarounded.

Hmm. Does CONFIG_KASAN show anything interesting?