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    mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page · a2c43eed
    Hugh Dickins authored
    remove_exclusive_swap_page(): its problem is in living up to its name.
    
    It doesn't matter if someone else has a reference to the page (raised
    page_count); it doesn't matter if the page is mapped into userspace
    (raised page_mapcount - though that hints it may be worth keeping the
    swap): all that matters is that there be no more references to the swap
    (and no writeback in progress).
    
    swapoff (try_to_unuse) has been removing pages from swapcache for years,
    with no concern for page count or page mapcount, and we used to have a
    comment in lookup_swap_cache() recognizing that: if you go for a page of
    swapcache, you'll get the right page, but it could have been removed from
    swapcache by the time you get page lock.
    
    So, give up asking for exclusivity: get rid of
    remove_exclusive_swap_page(), and remove_exclusive_swap_page_ref() and
    remove_exclusive_swap_page_count() which were spawned for the recent LRU
    work: replace them by the simpler try_to_free_swap() w...
    a2c43eed
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