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SubjectRe: no way to swapoff a deleted swap file?
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Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:21 -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:

>> > I unlinked a swapfile without realizing I was still swapping on it.
>> > Now my /proc/swaps looks like this:
>> > Filename Type Size Used
>> > Priority
>> > /var/tmp/EXP/cache/swap/1\040(deleted) file 1288644 1448 -1
>> > /var/tmp/EXP/cache/swap/2\040(deleted) file 1433368 0 -2

>> > If kswapd0 had a fd open on the swap files, swapoff /proc/$PID/fd/3
>> > could possibly work. But it looks like the files are open but with no
>> > user-space accessable file descriptors to them. Which makes sense,
>> > except for this case.
>>
>> Right, except that kswapd is per node, so we'd either have to add it to
>> all kswapd instances or a random one. Also, kthreads don't seem to have
>> a files table afaict.
>>
>> But yes, I see your problem and it makes sense to look for a nice
>> solution.
>
> No immediate answer springs to my mind.
>
> It's not something I'd want to add a new system call for.
> I guess we could put a magic file for each swap area
> somewhere down in /sys, and allow swapoff to act upon that.

I think the original idea of something like /proc/$PID/fd/ is not too bad.
I don't know if it's possible to have the same mechanism in sysfs. I guess
not, but with the rest of the vm knobs being in /proc, I would not be too sad.

Maybe it's possible to clone(CLONE_FILES) the kswapds. This would allow to
have /proc/sys/vm/swapfiles point to one of the correct /proc/$kwapd/fd/.



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