On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:54:42 -0700 Yu Zhao <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] # 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.
