Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix a race during split THP
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date:  Fri Oct 09 2020 - 09:27:13 EST
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 03:36:47PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> +	if (PageSwapCache(head)) {
> +		swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) };
> +
> +		split_swap_cluster(entry);
> +	}
...
> -		if (PageSwapCache(head)) {
> -			swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) };
> -
> -			ret = split_swap_cluster(entry);
Are we sure split_swap_cluster() can't fail?  Or if it does fail, it's
OK to continue with the split and not report the error?