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Andrew Morton authored
There are a couple of statistical functions which scan the entire swap map counting things up, to display in /proc. On my machine, these hold spinlocks for 19 milliseconds which is unacceptable from a scheduling latency point of view. And an application which sits in a loop reading /proc/swaps on a large machine is probably a decent denial-of-service attack - it will limit swap allocations to tens of pages per second. So add a counter to swap_info_struct and use it to track how many pages are currently in use, so those reporting functions don't need to add them all up.
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