[patch 1/27] handle BIO allocation failures in swap_writepage()

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:53:38 -0700


If allocation of a BIO for swap writeout fails, mark the page dirty
again to save it from eviction.

page_io.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- 2.5.24/mm/page_io.c~swap-bio-fail Thu Jul 4 16:17:05 2002
+++ 2.5.24-akpm/mm/page_io.c Thu Jul 4 16:22:13 2002
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page)
}
bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page, end_swap_bio_write);
if (bio == NULL) {
+ set_page_dirty(page);
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}

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