On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:58:59AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Fixes a regression introduced with commit 179ef71cbc085252 > "mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages" > > The maybe_same_pte() function is used to match a swap pte independent > of the swap software dirty bit set with pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(). > > For CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY=y but CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY=n the > software dirty bit may be set but maybe_same_pte() will not recognize > a software dirty swap pte. Due to this a 'swapoff -a' will hang. > > The straightforward solution is to replace CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY > with HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY in maybe_same_pte(). > > Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks a huge, Martin! I'll take a look today. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>