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KSM pages may be mapped to the multiple VMAs that cannot be reached from one anon_vma. So during swapin, a new copy of the page need to be generated if a different anon_vma is needed, please refer to comments of ksm_might_need_to_copy() for details. During swapoff, unuse_vma() uses anon_vma (if available) to locate VMA and virtual address mapped to the page, so not all mappings to a swapped out KSM page could be found. So in try_to_unuse(), even if the swap count of a swap entry isn't zero, the page needs to be deleted from swap cache, so that, in the next round a new page could be allocated and swapin for the other mappings of the swapped out KSM page. But this contradicts with the THP swap support. Where the THP could be deleted from swap cache only after the swap count of every swap entry in the huge swap cluster backing the THP has reach 0. So try_to_unuse() is changed in commit |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.