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[PATCHv5,06/13] zram: Clarify writeback_store() comment

Message ID 20221109115047.2921851-7-senozhatsky@chromium.org
State New
Headers
Series zram: Support multiple compression streams |

Commit Message

Sergey Senozhatsky Nov. 9, 2022, 11:50 a.m. UTC 
  Re-phrase writeback BIO error comment.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
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 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 560e2932021e..a5d2ce0bcd5d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -772,8 +772,12 @@  static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
 			zram_clear_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE);
 			zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
 			/*
-			 * Return last IO error unless every IO were
-			 * not suceeded.
+			 * BIO errors are not fatal, we continue and simply
+			 * attempt to writeback the remaining objects (pages).
+			 * At the same time we need to signal user-space that
+			 * some writes (at least one, but also could be all of
+			 * them) were not successful and we do so by returning
+			 * the most recent BIO error.
 			 */
 			ret = err;
 			continue;