This patch series focus on some tiny and rare issues in swap subsystem. These issues happen rarely, so it is just for the correctness of the code. It firstly add some comments to try to make swap flag/lock usage in swapfile.c more clear and readable, and fix some rare issues in swap subsystem that cause race condition among swapon, swapoff and frontswap_register_ops. and fix some not race issues. Please see individual patch for details, any complaint and suggestion are welcome. Regards patch 1/8: add some comments for swap flag/lock usage patch 2/8: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon This patch has been in akpm -mm tree, however I improve it according to Heesub Shin and Mateusz Guzik's suggestion. So, that old patch need to be dropped. patch 3/8: prevent concurrent swapon on the same S_ISBLK blockdev patch 4/8: fix race among frontswap_register_ops, swapoff and swapon patch 5/8: drop useless and bug frontswap_shrink codes patch 6/8: remove swap_lock to simplify si_swapinfo() patch 7/8: check swapfile blocksize greater than PAGE_SIZE patch 8/8: add missing handle on a dup-store failure include/linux/blkdev.h | 4 +++- include/linux/frontswap.h | 2 -- include/linux/swapfile.h | 4 +--- mm/frontswap.c | 127 +++++++------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ mm/page_io.c | 2 ++ mm/rmap.c | 2 +- mm/swapfile.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------- 7 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html