Commit
cbab0e4eec29 ("swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to
deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion") fixed a deadlock in
read_swap_cache_async(). Because at that time, in swap allocation path,
a swap entry may be set as SWAP_HAS_CACHE, then wait for discarding to
complete before the page for the swap entry is added to the swap cache.
But in commit
815c2c543d3a ("swap: make swap discard async"), the
discarding for swap become asynchronous, waiting for discarding to
complete will be done before the swap entry is set as SWAP_HAS_CACHE.
So the comments in code is incorrect now. This patch fixes the
comments.
The cond_resched() added in the commit
cbab0e4eec29 is not necessary now
too. But if we added some sleep in swap allocation path in the future,
there may be some hard to debug/reproduce deadlock bug. So it is kept.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317064635.12792-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/*
* We might race against get_swap_page() and stumble
* across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE swap_map entry whose page
- * has not been brought into the swapcache yet, while
- * the other end is scheduled away waiting on discard
- * I/O completion at scan_swap_map().
- *
- * In order to avoid turning this transitory state
- * into a permanent loop around this -EEXIST case
- * if !CONFIG_PREEMPT and the I/O completion happens
- * to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where we are now
- * busy looping, we just conditionally invoke the
- * scheduler here, if there are some more important
- * tasks to run.
+ * has not been brought into the swapcache yet.
*/
cond_resched();
continue;