Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/swapfile.c: count won't be bigger than SWAP_MAP_MAX

From: Wei Yang
Date: Sat May 02 2020 - 09:29:17 EST


On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:48:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Fri, 1 May 2020 01:52:59 +0000 Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> When the condition is true, there are two possibilities:
>
>I'm struggling with this one.
>
>> 1. count == SWAP_MAP_BAD
>> 2. count == (SWAP_MAP_MAX & COUNT_CONTINUED) == SWAP_MAP_SHMEM
>
>I'm not sure what 2. is trying to say. For a start, (SWAP_MAP_MAX &
>COUNT_CONTINUED) is zero. I guess it meant "|"?

Oops, you are right. It should be (SWAP_MAP_MAX | COUNT_CONTINUED).

Sorry for the confusion.

>
>Also, the return value documentation says we return EINVAL for migration
>entries. Where's that happening, or is the comment out of date?
>

Not paid attention to this.

Take look into the code, I don't find a relationship between the swap count
and migration. Seems we just make a migration entry but not duplicate it.
If my understanding is correct.

>> The first case would be filtered by the first if in __swap_duplicate().
>>
>> And the second case means this swap entry is for shmem. Since we never
>> do another duplication for shmem swap entry. This won't happen neither.
>

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