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| author |   Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2024-04-07 14:54:50 +0800 |
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| committer |   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-05-05 17:53:26 -0700 |
| commit | d4a34d7fb440d070553743d9cadef9a076e809d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8dba357fa8d5357594c9423d2ef63c0887c463e3 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | mm/mmap: make accountable_mapping return bool (diff) | |
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mm,swap: add document about RCU read lock and swapoff interaction
During reviewing a patch to fix the race condition between
free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff() [1], it was found that the document
about how to prevent racing with swapoff isn't clear enough. Especially
RCU read lock can prevent swapoff from freeing data structures. So, the
document is added as comments.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/c8fe62d0-78b8-527a-5bef-ee663ccdc37a@huawei.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240407065450.498821-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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