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Commit 9c1cc2e4 authored by Huang Ying's avatar Huang Ying Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, swap: fix comment in __read_swap_cache_async

Commit cbab0e4e ("swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to
deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion") fixed a deadlock in
read_swap_cache_async().  Because at that time, in swap allocation path,
a swap entry may be set as SWAP_HAS_CACHE, then wait for discarding to
complete before the page for the swap entry is added to the swap cache.

But in commit 815c2c54 ("swap: make swap discard async"), the
discarding for swap become asynchronous, waiting for discarding to
complete will be done before the swap entry is set as SWAP_HAS_CACHE.
So the comments in code is incorrect now.  This patch fixes the
comments.

The cond_resched() added in the commit cbab0e4e is not necessary now
too.  But if we added some sleep in swap allocation path in the future,
there may be some hard to debug/reproduce deadlock bug.  So it is kept.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317064635.12792-1-ying.huang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 83612a94
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