Re: Hard system lock-ups when using encrypted swap and RAM is exhausted
Askar Safin <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:24:29 +0300
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.cryptsetup,dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm |
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Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>: > So, this is what happened to you - the machine runs out of memory, it > needs to swap out some pages, dm-crypt encrypts the pages and generates > write bios, the write bios are directed to the loop device, the loop > device directs them to the filesystem, the filesystem attempts to allocate > more memory => deadlock. Does similar thing happen in my case? I. e. swap on top of dm-integrity on top of partition? Is my use case supported? (I'm not talking about hibernation now, just about swap.) -- Askar Safin