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Commit 093b995e authored by Huang Ying's avatar Huang Ying Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot()

Before commit 452b94b8 ("mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to
uninitialized swap slot cache"), the following bug is reported,

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/swap_slots.c:270!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 5 PID: 1745 Comm: (sd-pam) Not tainted 4.11.0-rc1-00243-g24c534bb161b #1
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/Z170-K, BIOS 1803 05/06/2016
  RIP: 0010:free_swap_slot+0xba/0xd0
  Call Trace:
   swap_free+0x36/0x40
   do_swap_page+0x360/0x6d0
   __handle_mm_fault+0x880/0x1080
   handle_mm_fault+0xd0/0x240
   __do_page_fault+0x232/0x4d0
   do_page_fault+0x20/0x70
   page_fault+0x22/0x30
  ---[ end trace aefc9ede53e0ab21 ]---

This is raised by the BUG_ON(!swap_slot_cache_initialized) in
free_swap_slot().  This is incorrect, because even if the swap slots
cache fails to be initialized, the swap should operate properly without
the swap slots cache.  And the use_swap_slot_cache check later in the
function...
parent 1f020713
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