Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:01:59 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] mm: use swp_offset as key in shmem_replace_page() |
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:54:42 -0700 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> wrote:
> We changed key of swap cache tree from swp_entry_t.val to > swp_offset. Need to do so in shmem_replace_page() as well.
What are the user-visible effects of this change?
> Fixes: f6ab1f7f6b2d ("mm, swap: use offset of swap entry as key of swap cache") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Please always provide the user-impact information when fixing bugs. This becomes especially important when proposing -stable backporting.
Hugh said
: shmem_replace_page() has been wrong since the day I wrote it: good : enough to work on swap "type" 0, which is all most people ever use : (especially those few who need shmem_replace_page() at all), but broken : once there are any non-0 swp_type bits set in the higher order bits.
but we still don't have a description of "broken".
Thanks.
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