Re: [PATCH] swap: do not skip lowest_bit in scan_swap_map() scan loop

[Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Jamie Liu wrote:

> In the second half of scan_swap_map()'s scan loop, offset is set to
> si->lowest_bit and then incremented before entering the loop for the
> first time, causing si->swap_map[si->lowest_bit] to be skipped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Good catch.  At first I was puzzled that this off-by-one could have
gone unnoticed for so long (ever since 2.6.29); but now I think that
almost always we have a good amount of slack, in those pages duplicated
between swap and swapcache, which can be reclaimed at the vm_swap_full()
check, and so conceal this loss of a single slot.

> ---
>  mm/swapfile.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> index 612a7c9..6635081 100644
> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ scan:
>  		}
>  	}
>  	offset = si->lowest_bit;
> -	while (++offset < scan_base) {
> +	while (offset < scan_base) {
>  		if (!si->swap_map[offset]) {
>  			spin_lock(&si->lock);
>  			goto checks;
> @@ -629,6 +629,7 @@ scan:
>  			cond_resched();
>  			latency_ration = LATENCY_LIMIT;
>  		}
> +		offset++;
>  	}
>  	spin_lock(&si->lock);
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.5.3
> 
> 

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