linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] frontswap: enable call to invalidate area on swapoff

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Date:	Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:25:36 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@...il.com>
Cc:	Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>,
	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>,
	Seth Jennings <spartacus06@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...ionio.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] frontswap: enable call to invalidate area on swapoff

On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:23 +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> I am sorry to interrupt this topic, but I found an tiny issue near that:
> 
> we can not "set_blocksize(bdev, p->old_block_size);" at the end of swapoff()
> because swap_info p may be reused by concurrent swapon called
> I think we need to  save the p->old_block_size in a local var and use it instead
I confirm the race here (I was able to trigger it on the same swap type).


> to Krzysztof : would you please add this in your patch?
> Thanks
I think it should be another patch as this is not related with
frontswap. I'll send new one and add you as Reported-by. Is it OK with
you?


Best regards,
Krzysztof

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