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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Call arch_swap_restore() from arch_do_swap_page()
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On 13.05.23 01:57, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> The previous patch made it possible for MTE to restore tags before they
> are freed by hooking arch_do_swap_page().
> 
> However, the arch_do_swap_page() hook API is incompatible with swap
> restoration in circumstances where we do not have an mm or a vma,
> such as swapoff with swapped out shmem, and I expect that ADI will
> currently fail to restore tags in these circumstances. This implies that
> arch-specific metadata stores ought to be indexed by swap index, as MTE
> does, rather than by mm and vma, as ADI does, and we should discourage
> hooking arch_do_swap_page(), preferring to hook arch_swap_restore()
> instead, as MTE already does.
> 
> Therefore, instead of directly hooking arch_do_swap_page() for
> MTE, deprecate that hook, change its default implementation to call
> arch_swap_restore() and rely on the existing implementation of the latter
> for MTE.
> 
> Fixes: c145e0b47c77 ("mm: streamline COW logic in do_swap_page()")

Can you enlighten me how this change fixes that commit? I'm afraid I am 
missing something important.

What is the user-visible impact of the problem, how was it caused by 
c145e0b47c77, and how does your change fix it?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb