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Commit d6bbbd29 authored by Raymond Jennings's avatar Raymond Jennings Committed by Linus Torvalds
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swap: warn when a swap area overflows the maximum size



It is possible to swapon a swap area that is too big for the pte width
to handle.

Presently this failure happens silently.

Instead, emit a diagnostic to warn the user.

Testing results, root prompt commands and kernel log messages:

# lvresize /dev/system/swap --size 16G
# mkswap /dev/system/swap
# swapon /dev/system/swap

Jul  7 04:27:22 warfang kernel: Adding 16777212k swap
on /dev/mapper/system-swap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:16777212k

# lvresize /dev/system/swap --size 64G
# mkswap /dev/system/swap
# swapon /dev/system/swap

Jul  7 04:27:22 warfang kernel: Truncating oversized swap area, only
using 33554432k out of 67108860k
Jul  7 04:27:22 warfang kernel: Adding 33554428k swap
on /dev/mapper/system-swap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:33554428k

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: default avatarRaymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarValdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ec9bed9d
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