Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix a race during split THP

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Oct 09 2020 - 09:27:13 EST


On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 03:36:47PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> + if (PageSwapCache(head)) {
> + swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) };
> +
> + split_swap_cluster(entry);
> + }
...
> - if (PageSwapCache(head)) {
> - swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) };
> -
> - ret = split_swap_cluster(entry);

Are we sure split_swap_cluster() can't fail? Or if it does fail, it's
OK to continue with the split and not report the error?