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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
	Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] swap: prevent reuse during hibernation
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:34:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009062034.36437.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100906171504.f06918a1.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Monday, September 06, 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 01:12:38 -0700 (PDT)
> Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:
> 
> > Move the hibernation check from scan_swap_map() into try_to_free_swap():
> > to catch not only the common case when hibernation's allocation itself
> > triggers swap reuse, but also the less likely case when concurrent page
> > reclaim (shrink_page_list) might happen to try_to_free_swap from a page.
> > 
> > Hibernation already clears __GFP_IO from the gfp_allowed_mask, to stop
> > reclaim from going to swap: check that to prevent swap reuse too.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> > Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
> > Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> 
> Hmm...seems better.
> 
> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-06 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-06  8:10 [PATCH 1/4] swap: revert special hibernation allocation Hugh Dickins
2010-09-06  8:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] swap: prevent reuse during hibernation Hugh Dickins
2010-09-06  8:15   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-06 18:34     ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-09-07  1:03   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-07 20:20   ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-07 21:38     ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-09  5:44       ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-09-06  8:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] swap: revert special hibernation allocation KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-06  8:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] swap: do not send discards as barriers Hugh Dickins
2010-09-06  8:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD Hugh Dickins

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