linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed

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Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:59:40 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-mm-cc <linux-mm-cc@...top.org>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 
> The *hook* looks OK to me but set_swap_free_notify() looks like an ugly
> hack. I don't understand why we're setting up the hook lazily in
> ramzswap_read() nor do I understand why we need to look up struct
> swap_info_struct with a bdev. Surely there's a cleaner way to do all
> this? Probably somewhere in sys_swapon()?

Sounds like you have something in mind, may well be better,
but please show us a patch...  (my mind is elsewhere!)

Hugh
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