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[ Upstream commit a95722a047724ef75567381976a36f0e44230bd9 ] The general rule to use a swap entry is as follows. When we get a swap entry, if there aren't some other ways to prevent swapoff, such as the folio in swap cache is locked, page table lock is held, etc., the swap entry may become invalid because of swapoff. Then, we need to enclose all swap related functions with get_swap_device() and put_swap_device(), unless the swap functions call get/put_swap_device() by themselves. Add the rule as comments of get_swap_device(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230529061355.125791-6-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Li (Google) <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Stable-dep-of: 82b1c07a0af6 ("mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.