On 01/10/2014 01:10 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Page cache radix tree slots are usually stabilized by the page lock,
> but shmem's swap cookies have no such thing.  Because the overall
> truncation loop is lockless, the swap entry is currently confirmed by
> a tree lookup and then deleted by another tree lookup under the same
> tree lock region.
> 
> Use radix_tree_delete_item() instead, which does the verification and
> deletion with only one lookup.  This also allows removing the
> delete-only special case from shmem_radix_tree_replace().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>

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


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