Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:45:31PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 
> > So I rewritten the fix this way:
> > 
> > +	ret = add_to_swap_cache(page, entry);
> 
> I think you'll find that gets into trouble on the header page,
> entry 0, which pmdisk/swsusp does access through this interface,
> but swapping does not: I'd expect its swap_duplicate to fail.

I didn't know they have to modify the header page.

> I've put off dealing with this, wasn't a priority for me to
> decide what to do with it.  You might experiment with setting
> p->swap_map[0] = 1 instead of SWAP_MAP_BAD in sys_swapon, but
> offhand I'm unsure whether that's enough e.g. would the totals
> come out right, would swapoff complete?
> 
> Just an idea, not something to finalize.

if they run into trouble I'll return to the pagecache API adding the
GFP_KERNEL and check for oom failure.
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