From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/swapfile: fix swapoff vs. software dirty bits
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:53:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150917095311.GH2000@uranus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442480339-26308-2-git-send-email-schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:58:59AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Fixes a regression introduced with commit 179ef71cbc085252
> "mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages"
>
> The maybe_same_pte() function is used to match a swap pte independent
> of the swap software dirty bit set with pte_swp_mksoft_dirty().
>
> For CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY=y but CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY=n the
> software dirty bit may be set but maybe_same_pte() will not recognize
> a software dirty swap pte. Due to this a 'swapoff -a' will hang.
>
> The straightforward solution is to replace CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
> with HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY in maybe_same_pte().
>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Thanks a huge, Martin! I'll take a look today.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-17 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 8:58 [PATCH] hanging swapoff with HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY=y Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-17 8:58 ` [PATCH] mm/swapfile: fix swapoff vs. software dirty bits Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-17 9:53 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2015-09-17 19:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-18 6:58 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-18 7:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-18 8:20 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-18 8:53 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-18 9:10 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-18 9:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-18 10:11 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-18 20:21 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-21 7:10 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-21 7:30 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-21 7:40 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-21 7:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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