linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: Fix nr_good

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:19:12 +0200
From:	Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@...ia.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Fix nr_good_pages calculation

Swapon wastes one page of swap space to no effect.

Mkswap stores the value 'pages - 1' into last_page field, where pages is the
partition size in pages.  When nr_good_pages is calculated, last_page + 1
should be used for the number of all the pages header included.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@...ia.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 6c0585b..50d90ca 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 	if (error)
 		goto bad_swap;
 
-	nr_good_pages = swap_header->info.last_page -
+	nr_good_pages = swap_header->info.last_page + 1 -
 			swap_header->info.nr_badpages -
 			1 /* header page */;
 
-- 
1.6.5

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