Re: long swapon times with pre6

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 12:14:18 EST


On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Art Boulatov wrote:

>Yes, I've also noticed that swapon takes a much longer time with pre6.

here the fix against pre6:

--- 2.3.99-pre6-VM/mm/page_io.c.~1~ Wed Dec 8 00:05:28 1999
+++ 2.3.99-pre6-VM/mm/page_io.c Sat Apr 29 18:59:29 2000
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@
                 PAGE_BUG(page);
         if (PageSwapCache(page))
                 PAGE_BUG(page);
+ if (page->mapping)
+ PAGE_BUG(page);
+ /* needs sync_page to wait I/O completation */
+ page->mapping = &swapper_space;
         if (!rw_swap_page_base(rw, entry, page, wait))
                 UnlockPage(page);
+ page->mapping = NULL;
 }

Andrea

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