On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:34:44 -0700 Omar Sandoval <osan...@osandov.com> wrote:

> From: Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com>
> 
> The SWP_FILE flag serves two purposes: to make swap_{read,write}page()
> go through the filesystem, and to make swapoff() call
> ->swap_deactivate(). For Btrfs, we want the latter but not the former,
> so split this flag into two. This makes us always call
> ->swap_deactivate() if ->swap_activate() succeeded, not just if it
> didn't add any swap extents itself.
> 
> This also resolves the issue of the very misleading name of SWP_FILE,
> which is only used for swap files over NFS.
> 

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>

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