Re: shmem_recalc_inode: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Hugh Dickins]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> 
> I suppose your solution will wait for wakeup from shmem_evict_inode()?

No, it's the other way round: shmem_unuse() gets on with its work without
delay, shmem_evict_inode() waits until the stop_eviction count has gone
down to zero, saying nobody else is at work on the inode.

Waiting in shmem_evict_inode() might be more worrying, if it weren't
already packed full with lock_page()s. And less attractive with the old
quadratic style of swapoff, when shmem_evict_inode() would have freed
the inode's swap much more efficiently than swapoff could then manage.

Hugh