mm, swap: fix race between swap count continuation operations
One page may store a set of entries of the sis->swap_map (swap_info_struct->swap_map) in multiple swap clusters. If some of the entries has sis->swap_map[offset] > SWAP_MAP_MAX, multiple pages will be used to store the set of entries of the sis->swap_map. And the pages are linked with page->lru. This is called swap count continuation. To access the pages which store the set of entries of the sis->swap_map simultaneously, previously, sis->lock is used. But to improve the scalability of __swap_duplicate(), swap cluster lock may be used in swap_count_continued() now. This may race with add_swap_count_continuation() which operates on a nearby swap cluster, in which the sis->swap_map entries are stored in the same page. The race can cause wrong swap count in practice, thus cause unfreeable swap entries or software lockup, etc. To fix the race, a new spin lock called cont_lock is added to struct swap_info_struct to protect the swap count cont...
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