Re: [RESEND RFC] zram: Allow rw_page when page isn't written back.

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Fri Sep 09 2022 - 04:30:38 EST


On (22/09/08 08:50), Brian Geffon wrote:
[..]
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ enum zram_pageflags {
> ZRAM_UNDER_WB, /* page is under writeback */
> ZRAM_HUGE, /* Incompressible page */
> ZRAM_IDLE, /* not accessed page since last idle marking */
> + ZRAM_NO_WB, /* Do not allow page to be written back */
>
> __NR_ZRAM_PAGEFLAGS,
> };

Unrelated but somehow related.

I wonder if it's time for us to introduce a dedicated, say u16,
flags member to struct zram_table_entry. Unless my calculations
are extremely wrong, we are about to run out of spare bits in
zram_table_entry::flags on 32-bit systems.