[PATCH] swap 12/13 vm_enough_memory double counts

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Stop vm_enough_memory double counting total_swapcache_pages: it dates
from the days when we didn't free swap when freeing swapcache page.

--- swap11/mm/mmap.c Sun Mar 23 10:30:15 2003
+++ swap12/mm/mmap.c Tue Mar 25 20:44:57 2003
@@ -82,14 +82,6 @@
                 free += nr_swap_pages;
 
                 /*
- * This double-counts: the nrpages are both in the
- * page-cache and in the swapper space. At the same time,
- * this compensates for the swap-space over-allocation
- * (ie "nr_swap_pages" being too small).
- */
- free += total_swapcache_pages;
-
- /*
                  * The code below doesn't account for free space in the
                  * inode and dentry slab cache, slab cache fragmentation,
                  * inodes and dentries which will become freeable under

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