swap: revert special hibernation allocation
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:38:07 +0000 (16:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:57:25 +0000 (18:57 -0700)
commit910321ea817a202ff70fac666e37e2c8e2f88823
treeaaead29e7797986e2b804746b565bb5d05117c54
parentac8456d6f9a3011c824176bd6084d39e5f70a382
swap: revert special hibernation allocation

Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042ec150616c1963b5e5e919ffd0b0ebf
"hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation".  It complicated matters by
adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any
way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after
fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as
swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of
the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as
clean then swapped back in.  Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in
danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path.

I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation,
as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on
the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a
separate fix.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/swap.h
kernel/power/hibernate.c
kernel/power/snapshot.c
kernel/power/swap.c
mm/swapfile.c