Hello Dave,
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:38:58AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
>
> swapcache_free() takes two arguments:
>
> void swapcache_free(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
>
> Most of its callers (5/7) are from error handling paths haven't even
> instantiated a page, so they pass page=NULL. Both of the callers
> that call in with a 'struct page' create and pass in a temporary
> swp_entry_t.
>
> Now that we are deferring clearing page_private() until after
> swapcache_free() has been called, we can just create a variant
> that takes a 'struct page' and does the temporary variable in
> the helper.
>
> That leaves all the other callers doing
>
> swapcache_free(entry, NULL)
>
> so create another helper for them that makes it clear that they
> need only pass in a swp_entry_t.
>
> One downside here is that delete_from_swap_cache() now does
> an extra swap_address_space() call. But, those are pretty
> cheap (just some array index arithmetic).
I lost from this description.
Old behavior
delete_from_swap_cache
swap_address_space
__delete_from_swap_cache
swap_address_space
New behavior
delete_from_swap_cache
__delete_from_swap_cache
swap_address_space
So you removes a swap_address_space, not adding a extra call.
Am I missing something?
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Otherwise, looks good to me
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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