On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 13:18 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.hu...@intel.com>
> 
> Previously, swapcache_free_cluster() is used only in the error path
> of
> shrink_page_list() to free the swap cluster just allocated if the
> THP (Transparent Huge Page) is failed to be split.  In this patch, it
> is enhanced to clear the swap cache flag (SWAP_HAS_CACHE) for the
> swap
> cluster that holds the contents of THP swapped out.
> 
> This will be used in delaying splitting THP after swapping out
> support.  Because there is no THP swapping in as a whole support yet,
> after clearing the swap cache flag, the swap cluster backing the THP
> swapped out will be split.  So that the swap slots in the swap
> cluster
> can be swapped in as normal pages later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> Cc: Shaohua Li <s...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> 

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>

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