[patch 1/27] handle BIO allocation failures in swap_writepage()

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 18:53:38 EST


If allocation of a BIO for swap writeout fails, mark the page dirty
again to save it from eviction.

 page_io.c | 1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- 2.5.24/mm/page_io.c~swap-bio-fail Thu Jul 4 16:17:05 2002
+++ 2.5.24-akpm/mm/page_io.c Thu Jul 4 16:22:13 2002
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page)
         }
         bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page, end_swap_bio_write);
         if (bio == NULL) {
+ set_page_dirty(page);
                 ret = -ENOMEM;
                 goto out;
         }

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