Bug 1731598

(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #0)
> * Is the service non-persistent (i.e. run once at startup and exit)?
> 
> No

It is non-persistent, sorry

Ok, thanks. That meets the requirements to skip FESCo, so I will go ahead and merge it.

Note: I might need to get this reopened and reverted, if the patches in:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zram/pull-request/3
get merged.

This needs to be reverted as it conflicts with https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/2039

Short version:
There might be another way to solve this without reverting. I'll ask probinson what he thinks of this:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/chrismurphy/rpms/zram/c/8dad080d9285db3076fdd502efb83081545520d8?branch=devel

Longer explanation of the conflict:

This commit causes zram package's zram-swap.service to be enabled, and therefore creates swap on /dev/zram0 during early startup, including on LiveOS.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-release/c/8befd03

It hasn't landed in Rawhide yet, and even if it did the result is non-fatal.

What happens on LiveOS boots, is just some complaints from anaconda's own swap on zram (zram.service) trying to step on the zram0 device that this change creates during early boot (zram-swap.service).

If I simulate this commit by booting Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20190728.n.1.iso in a VM with `systemd.wants=zram-swap.service` and then launch Anaconda:

[root@localhost-live liveuser]# journalctl -b -o short-monotonic | grep zram
[   91.209105] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + MAX_RAM_ON=2097152
[   91.214632] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: ++ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
[   91.215386] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: ++ grep -E --only-matching '[[:digit:]]+'
[   91.224294] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + mem_total_kb=2008244
[   91.224490] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + grep -E 'inst\.zram=(on|1)' /proc/cmdline
[   91.229702] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + force=1
[   91.230093] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + '[' '(' 2008244 -gt 2097152 ')' -a '(' 1 '!=' 0 ')' ']'
[   91.231738] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: ++ getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN
[   91.244345] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + num_cpus=4
[   91.244682] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + modprobe zram
[   91.254963] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + echo 4
[   91.256318] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + echo 2008244K
[   91.264951] localhost-live kernel: zram: Cannot change disksize for initialized device
[   91.257465] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: /usr/libexec/anaconda/zramswapon: line 46: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
[   91.257716] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + mkswap /dev/zram0
[   91.280812] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: mkswap: error: /dev/zram0 is mounted; will not make swapspace
[   91.281568] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + swapon -p 100 /dev/zram0
[   91.310634] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: swapon: /dev/zram0: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
[   91.312003] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + '[' 2008244 -le 1048576 ']'
[   91.312431] localhost-live zramswapon[2218]: + exit 0


Basically, anaconda starts its own zram.service at launch (since a few Fedora releases on netinstalls, and starting with F31 for LiveOS which change just landed so there's no way bnocera could have known of the conflict) and because it's super simple, it just assumes it can setup swap on /dev/zram0, but there is already a swap setup there.

When I coordinated the change with anaconda folks, they wanted anaconda to start zram, because it's better for small RAM devices to fail during startup of the graphical environment, than for installation to succeed with zram, but then fail on reboot following installation because there was no zram.

Thing is, if we run into the problem that https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/98 is trying to solve, eventually the kernel is just going to spill over abruptly into that legacy swap on a conventional drive because the Anaconda creatd swap volume still exists along with this new swap on zram device.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
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