[PATCH] swap: freeing update swap_list.next

This makes negligible difference in practice: but swap_list.next should not be
updated to a higher prio in the general helper swap_info_get, but rather in
swap_entry_free; and then only in the case when entry is actually freed.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 6cc6dfb4d27ba379eb2cd5924554c23b4db00b60..62e0da8f7e6eeb8aa0f7c99475b61dae8619eda9 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -215,8 +215,6 @@ static struct swap_info_struct * swap_info_get(swp_entry_t entry)
        if (!p->swap_map[offset])
                goto bad_free;
        swap_list_lock();
-       if (p->prio > swap_info[swap_list.next].prio)
-               swap_list.next = type;
        swap_device_lock(p);
        return p;
 
@@ -253,6 +251,8 @@ static int swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p, unsigned long offset)
                                p->lowest_bit = offset;
                        if (offset > p->highest_bit)
                                p->highest_bit = offset;
+                       if (p->prio > swap_info[swap_list.next].prio)
+                               swap_list.next = p - swap_info;
                        nr_swap_pages++;
                        p->inuse_pages--;
                }