Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:21:41 -0300
From: Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>
Subject: no way to swapoff a deleted swap file?
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 I unlinked a swapfile without realizing I was still swapping on it.
Now my /proc/swaps looks like this:
Filename                                Type            Size    Used	Priority
/var/tmp/EXP/cache/swap/1\040(deleted)  file            1288644 1448	-1
/var/tmp/EXP/cache/swap/2\040(deleted)  file            1433368 0	-2

 AFAICT, there's nothing I can pass to swapoff(2) that will make the
kernel let go of them.  If that's the case, please consider this a
feature request for a way to do this.  Now I'm going to have to reboot
before I can mkfs that partition.

 If kswapd0 had a fd open on the swap files, swapoff /proc/$PID/fd/3
could possibly work.  But it looks like the files are open but with no
user-space accessable file descriptors to them.  Which makes sense,
except for this case.

 thanks, and happy hacking,

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