Re: [PATCH] Fix reset of ramzswap

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Jan 12 2010 - 00:51:17 EST


On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:00 +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM, minchan.kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ioctl(cmd=reset)
> > -> bd_holder check (if whoever hold bdev, return -EBUSY)
> > -> ramzswap_ioctl_reset_device
> > -> reset_device
> > -> bd_release
> >
> > bd_release is called by reset_device.
> > but ramzswap_ioctl always checks bd_holder before
> > reset_device. it means reset ioctl always fails.
>
> Are you sure you checked this patch?

> This check makes sure that you cannot reset an active swap device.
> When device in swapoff'ed the ioctl works as expected.
>
It seems my test was wrong.
Maybe my test case don't swapoff swap device.
Sorry. Ignore this patch, pz.
Thanks for the reivew, Nitin.

I have one more patch. But I don't want to conflict your pending
patches. If it is right, pz, merge this patch with your pending series.

>From bf810ec09761b0f37eca7ba22d72fb2b1f2cba50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:46:46 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary check of ramzswap_write

Nitin already implement swap slot free callback.
So, we don't need this test any more.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c | 8 --------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
b/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
index 18196f3..575a147 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
@@ -784,14 +784,6 @@ static int ramzswap_write(struct ramzswap *rzs,
struct bio *bio)
src = rzs->compress_buffer;

/*
- * System swaps to same sector again when the stored page
- * is no longer referenced by any process. So, its now safe
- * to free the memory that was allocated for this page.
- */
- if (rzs->table[index].page)
- ramzswap_free_page(rzs, index);
-
- /*
* No memory ia allocated for zero filled pages.
* Simply clear zero page flag.
*/
--
1.5.6.3




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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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