From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Kexin Sun <kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, chrisl@kernel.org, kasong@tencent.com,
shikemeng@huaweicloud.com, nphamcs@gmail.com, bhe@redhat.com,
baohua@kernel.org, axelrasmussen@google.com, yuanchu@google.com,
weixugc@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: julia.lawall@inria.fr, xutong.ma@inria.fr, yunbolyu@smu.edu.sg,
ratnadiraw@smu.edu.sg
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: update outdated comments for removed scan_swap_map_slots()
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:57:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5b5758f-d874-474e-9867-9982d3bb44a5@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260321105814.7053-1-kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn>
On 3/21/26 11:58, Kexin Sun wrote:
> The function scan_swap_map_slots() was removed in commit
> 0ff67f990bd4 ("mm, swap: remove swap slot cache").
>
> The three comments referencing it simply noted that ->flags can be
> updated non-atomically by scan_swap_map_slots() to justify a
> data_race() annotation. Since the function no longer exists, drop
> the parenthetical reference while keeping the data_race()
> justification intact: ->flags can still be updated non-atomically
> by other paths (e.g., swapoff clearing SWP_WRITEOK).
>
> Assisted-by: unnamed:deepseek-v3.2 coccinelle
> Signed-off-by: Kexin Sun <kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn>
> ---
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
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2026-03-21 10:58 [PATCH] mm: update outdated comments for removed scan_swap_map_slots() Kexin Sun
2026-03-23 8:57 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-03-23 9:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
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