Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Make swap_readpage() for SWP_FS_OPS use ->direct_IO() not ->readpage()

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Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After submitting the IO here ...
> 
> > +	if (ret != -EIOCBQUEUED)
> > +		swapfile_read_complete(&ki->iocb, ret, 0);
> 
> We only touch the 'ki' here ... if the caller didn't call read_complete
> 
> > +	swapfile_put_kiocb(ki);
> 
> Except for here, which is only touched in order to put the refcount.
> 
> So why can't swapfile_read_complete() do the work of freeing the ki?

When I was doing something similar for cachefiles, I couldn't get it to work
like that.  I'll have another look at that.

David




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