Re: [PATCH 14/19] mm, swap: sanitize swap entry management workflow
From: YoungJun Park
Date: Sat Nov 01 2025 - 05:08:54 EST
On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 04:59:05PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM YoungJun Park <youngjun.park@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:58:40PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> > > From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > During the code review, I found something to be verified.
> > It is not directly releavant your patch,
> > I send the email for checking it right and possible fix on this patch.
> >
> > on the swap_alloc_hibernation_slot function
> > nr_swap_pages is decreased. but as I think it is decreased on swap_range_alloc.
> >
> > The nr_swap_pages are decremented as the callflow as like the below.
> >
> > cluster_alloc_swap_entry -> alloc_swap_scan_cluster
> > -> closter_alloc_range -> swap_range_alloc
> >
> > Introduced on
> > 4f78252da887ee7e9d1875dd6e07d9baa936c04f
> > mm: swap: move nr_swap_pages counter decrement from folio_alloc_swap() to swap_range_alloc()
> >
>
> Yeah, you are right, that's a bug introduced by 4f78252da887, will you
> send a patch to fix that ? Or I can send one, just remove the
> atomic_long_dec(&nr_swap_pages) in get_swap_page_of_type then we are
> fine.
Thank you for double check. I will send a patch soon.
Regards,
Youngjun Park