linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] swap: fix do_swap

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Date:   Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:24:15 -0700
From:   Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, vbabka@...e.cz, alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com,
        willy@...radead.org, minchan@...nel.org, richard.weiyang@...il.com,
        hughd@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] swap: fix do_swap_page() race with swapoff



On 4/12/21 6:27 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:

> 
> This isn't the commit that introduces the race.  You can use `git blame`
> find out the correct commit.  For this it's commit 0bcac06f27d7 "mm,
> swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device".
> 
> And I suggest to merge 1/5 and 2/5 to make it easy to get the full
> picture.

I'll suggest make fix to do_swap_page race with get/put_swap_device
as a first patch. Then the per_cpu_ref stuff in patch 1 and patch 2 can
be combined together.

Tim