From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:45:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:45:15 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:27405 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:45:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3D24E002.CB648D47@zip.com.au> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:53:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: lkml Subject: [patch 1/27] handle BIO allocation failures in swap_writepage() Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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; } -