Re: [PATCH] frontswap: enable call to invalidate area on swapoff

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:29:07AM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
> On 10/09/2013 10:40 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
> > 
> > The reason we never noticed this for zswap is that zswap has no
> > dynamically allocated per-type resources.  In the expected case,
> > where all of the pages have been drained from zswap,
> > zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area() is a no-op.
> > 
> 
> Not exactly, see the bug fix "mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when
> re-swapon" from Weijie.
> Zswap needs invalidate_area() also.

I remembered this patch as soon as I sent out this note.  What I said
about zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area() being a no-op in the expected
case is true as of v3.12-rc4, but it shouldn't be :)

I sent a note to Andrew reminding him to pull in that patch.

Thanks,
Seth

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