On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:26:46AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> + printf("Dirtying memory.\n");
> + fflush(stdout);
> +
> + /* Dirty the memory to force this program to be swapped out. */
> + for (p = pstart; p < pend; p += pagesize)
> + *p = 'X';
What I liked about dhowells' program was that it checked whether the
pages brought back in from swap were the same ones that had been written
to swap. As a block filesystem person, you only know the misery of having
swap go behind your back to the block device. As a network filesystem
person, David is acutely aware of the misery of having to remember to
use page_file_index() instead of page->index in order to avoid reading
a page from the wrong offset in the swap partition.
Yes, our swap code is nasty in many different ways, why do you ask?
