mm: fix a race on nr_swap_pages
commit b50da6e9f42ade19141f6cf8870bb2312b055aa3 upstream.
The scenario on which "Free swap = -4kB" happens in my system, which is caused
by several get_swap_pages racing with each other and show_swap_cache_info
happens simutaniously. No need to add a lock on get_swap_page_of_type as we
remove "Presub/PosAdd" here.
ProcessA ProcessB ProcessC
ngoals = 1 ngoals = 1
avail = nr_swap_pages(1) avail = nr_swap_pages(1)
nr_swap_pages(1) -= ngoals
nr_swap_pages(0) -= ngoals
nr_swap_pages = -1
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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