[Fwd: mmotm: swap overflow warning patch: mangled description and missing review tag]

Screwed up and used the wrong domain for linux-mm.

I checked the mmotm queue and it seems that my mid-air corrections got the patch mangled when it was saved to your mail queue, and in addition to a missing correction of a typo in my testing log, Rik van Riel's Reviewed-By tag vanished

http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/swap-warn-when-a-swap-area-overflows-the-maximum-size.patch

If you could fix my test transcript and properly credit Rik for reviewing my patch before you ship it to linus I'd appreciate it.

The correctly formatted patch and description with corrections and tags follows:
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From: Raymond Jennings <[email protected]>
Subject: swap: warn when a swap area overflows the maximum size

It is possible to swapon a swap area that is too big for the pte width to handle.

Presently this failure happens silently.

Instead, emit a diagnostic to warn the user.

Testing results, root prompt commands and kernel log messages:

# lvresize /dev/system/swap --size 16G
# mkswap /dev/system/swap
# swapon /dev/system/swap

Jul  7 04:27:22 warfang kernel: Adding 16777212k swap

on /dev/mapper/system-swap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:16777212k

# lvresize /dev/system/swap --size 64G
# mkswap /dev/system/swap
# swapon /dev/system/swap

Jul  7 04:27:22 warfang kernel: Truncating oversized swap area, only
using 33554432k out of 67108860k
Jul  7 04:27:22 warfang kernel: Adding 33554428k swap

on /dev/mapper/system-swap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:33554428k

---

 mm/swapfile.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~swap-warn-when-a-swap-area-overflows-the-maximum-size mm/swapfile.c
---
a/mm/swapfile.c~swap-warn-when-a-swap-area-overflows-the-maximum-size +++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1953,6 +1953,12 @@ static unsigned long read_swap_header(st
*/
maxpages = swp_offset(pte_to_swp_entry(
swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry(0, ~0UL)))) + 1;
+ if (swap_header->info.last_page > maxpages) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "Truncating oversized swap area, only using %luk out of %luk\n",
+ maxpages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10),
+ swap_header->info.last_page << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
+ }
if (maxpages > swap_header->info.last_page) {
maxpages = swap_header->info.last_page + 1; /* p->max is an unsigned int: don't overflow it */