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    swap: revert special hibernation allocation · 910321ea
    Hugh Dickins authored
    Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b10
    "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: default avatarHugh 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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