From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Huang\, Ying" To: Minchan Kim Cc: "Huang\, Ying" , Andrew Morton , , , Tim Chen , "Michal Hocko" , , Christian Kujau Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] mm, swap: Fix false error message in __swp_swapcount() References: <20171024024700.23679-1-ying.huang@intel.com> <20171024201708.GA25022@bgram> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:32:52 +0800 In-Reply-To: <20171024201708.GA25022@bgram> (Minchan Kim's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2017 05:17:08 +0900") Message-ID: <8737686jor.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Minchan Kim writes: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:47:00AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: >> From: Ying Huang >> >> __swp_swapcount() is used in __read_swap_cache_async(). Where the >> invalid swap entry (offset > max) may be supplied during swap >> readahead. But __swp_swapcount() will print error message for these >> expected invalid swap entry as below, which will make the users >> confusing. >> >> swap_info_get: Bad swap offset entry 0200f8a7 >> >> So the swap entry checking code in __swp_swapcount() is changed to >> avoid printing error message for it. To avoid to duplicate code with >> __swap_duplicate(), a new helper function named >> __swap_info_get_silence() is added and invoked in both places. > > It's the problem caused by readahead, not __swap_info_get which is low-end > primitive function. Instead, please fix high-end swapin_readahead to limit > to last valid block as handling to avoid swap header which is special case, > too. Yes. You are right, will send the new version. Best Regards, Huang, Ying -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org