On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:01:25PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 17-03-21 18:59:59, Shakeel Butt wrote: > > The function swap_readpage() (and other functions it call) extracts swap > > entry from page->private. However for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO, the kernel > > skips the swapcache and thus we need to manually set the page->private > > with the swap entry before calling swap_readpage(). > > One thing that is not really clear to me is whether/why this is only > needed with your patch. Can you expand a bit on that please? Maybe I am > just missing something obvious but I just do not see any connection. It was always needed, his original patch erroneously removed it.
