3 Aug
2018
3 Aug
'18
5:23 a.m.
On (08/03/18 13:51), Minchan Kim wrote:
AFAIK, onging writeback page couldn't freed so it was not writeabck problem.
What I'm tryig to fix is read part. If we use swapcache, it shouldn't be a problem either because swapcache has a reference count and we should wait PG_lock release before the freeing from the swapcache so there is no race condition.
Hmm, any chance a WB device can be async on its own? We add a page to a new bio and submit it to another async device driver. Then we return back to the upper layer (swap), which can free a page before the device picks up a request. Can this happen?
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However, I decided, at this moment, going this simple way for stable-material to solve #0 and #1 problems at the same time.
Agreed. Thanks.
-ss