Re: [PATCH] frontswap: enable call to invalidate area on swapoff

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On pon, 2013-10-07 at 15:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:25:41 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > During swapoff the frontswap_map was NULL-ified before calling
> > frontswap_invalidate_area(). However the frontswap_invalidate_area()
> > exits early if frontswap_map is NULL. Invalidate was never called during
> > swapoff.
> > 
> > This patch moves frontswap_map_set() in swapoff just after calling
> > frontswap_invalidate_area() so outside of locks
> > (swap_lock and swap_info_struct->lock). This shouldn't be a problem as
> > during swapon the frontswap_map_set() is called also outside of any
> > locks.
> > 
> 
> Ahem.  So there's a bunch of code in __frontswap_invalidate_area()
> which hasn't ever been executed and nobody noticed it.  So perhaps that
> code isn't actually needed?
> 
> More seriously, this patch looks like it enables code which hasn't been
> used or tested before.  How well tested was this?
> 
> Are there any runtime-visible effects from this change?

I tested zswap on x86 and x86-64 and there was no difference. This is
good as there shouldn't be visible anything because swapoff is unusing
all pages anyway:
	try_to_unuse(type, false, 0); /* force all pages to be unused */

I haven't tested other frontswap users.


Best regards,
Krzysztof Kozlowski



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