mm: make swapoff more robust against soft dirty
Both s390 and powerpc have hit the issue of swapoff hanging, when
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY and CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY ifdefs were not
quite as x86_64 had them. I think it would be much clearer if
HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY was just a Kconfig option set by architectures to
determine whether the MEM_SOFT_DIRTY option should be offered, and the
actual code depend upon CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY alone.
But won't embark on that change myself: instead make swapoff more
robust, by using pte_swp_clear_soft_dirty() on each pte it encounters,
without an explicit #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY. That being a no-op,
whether the bit in question is defined as 0 or the asm-generic fallback
is used, unless soft dirty is fully turned on.
Why "maybe" in maybe_same_pte()? Rename it pte_same_as_swp().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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