Re: [PATCH] mm: swap: Avoid infinite loop if no valid swap entry found during do_swap_page
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Feb 21 2025 - 22:46:15 EST
On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:46:17AM +0800, Wupeng Ma wrote:
> Digging into the source, we found that the swap entry is invalid due to
> unknown reason, and this lead to invalid swap_info_struct. Excessive log
> printing can fill up the prioritized log space, leading to the purging of
> originally valid logs and hindering problem troubleshooting. To make this
> more robust, kill this task.
this seems like a very bad way to fix this problem