The patch titled
swap prefetch: avoid repeating entry
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
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Subject: swap prefetch: avoid repeating entry
From: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Avoid entering trickle_swap() when first initialising kprefetchd to prevent
endless loops.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swap_prefetch.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/swap_prefetch.c~swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry mm/swap_prefetch.c
--- a/mm/swap_prefetch.c~swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry
+++ a/mm/swap_prefetch.c
@@ -515,6 +515,10 @@ static int kprefetchd(void *__unused)
/* Set ioprio to lowest if supported by i/o scheduler */
sys_ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, 0, IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE);
+ /* kprefetchd has nothing to do until it is woken up the first time */
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ schedule();
+
do {
try_to_freeze();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx are
sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry.patch
mm-swap-prefetch-improvements.patch
mm-swap-prefetch-more-improvements.patch
mm-swap-prefetch-increase-aggressiveness-and-tunability.patch
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