linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: zswap: remove unnecessary trees cleanups in zswap

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:52:30 -0800
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>, 
	Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: zswap: remove unnecessary trees cleanups in zswap_swapoff()

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:51 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> During swapoff, try_to_unuse() makes sure that zswap_invalidate() is
> called for all swap entries before zswap_swapoff() is called. This means
> that all zswap entries should already be removed from the tree. Simplify
> zswap_swapoff() by removing the trees cleanup code, and leave an
> assertion in its place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>

Johannes, Nhat, I didn't carry the Acks forward after the rebase as
the code changed significantly.