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Commit b50da6e9 authored by Zhaoyang Huang's avatar Zhaoyang Huang Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: fix a race on nr_swap_pages

The scenario on which "Free swap = -4kB" happens in my system, which is caused
by several get_swap_pages racing with each other and show_swap_cache_info
happens simutaniously. No need to add a lock on get_swap_page_of_type as we
remove "Presub/PosAdd" here.

ProcessA			ProcessB			ProcessC
ngoals = 1			ngoals = 1
avail = nr_swap_pages(1)	avail = nr_swap_pages(1)
nr_swap_pages(1) -= ngoals
				nr_swap_pages(0) -= ngoals
								nr_swap_pages = -1

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1607050340-4535-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarZhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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