[PATCH 1/1] Restore swap_space attr aviod krn panic

[Kairui Song]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 8:14 AM <robin.kuo at mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> From: "robin.kuo" <robin.kuo at mediatek.com>
>
> Restore swap_space attr avoid krn panic

Also a nitpick, you may want to add "mm, swap:" prefix to the patch summary.

> Commit 8b47299a411a ('mm, swap: mark swap address space ro and add
> context debug check') made the swap address space read-only.
> It may lead to kernel panic if arch_prepare_to_swap returns a failure
> under heavy memory pressure as follows,
>
> el1_abort+0x40/0x64
> el1h_64_sync_handler+0x48/0xcc
> el1h_64_sync+0x84/0x88
> errseq_set+0x4c/0xb8 (P)
> __filemap_set_wb_err+0x20/0xd0
> shrink_folio_list+0xc20/0x11cc
> evict_folios+0x1520/0x1be4
> try_to_shrink_lruvec+0x27c/0x3dc
> shrink_one+0x9c/0x228
> shrink_node+0xb3c/0xeac
> do_try_to_free_pages+0x170/0x4f0
> try_to_free_pages+0x334/0x534
> __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim+0x90/0x158
> __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x334/0x588
> __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x224/0x2fc
> __folio_alloc_noprof+0x14/0x64
> vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio+0x34/0x44
> do_pte_missing+0xad4/0x1040
> handle_mm_fault+0x4a4/0x790
> do_page_fault+0x288/0x5f8
> do_translation_fault+0x38/0x54
> do_mem_abort+0x54/0xa8
>
> Restore swap address space as not ro to avoid the panic.

For a stable backport simply making it not RO is simpler and better.
We can do the cleanup and add debug attr as I mentioned in another
reply later.

So for this change with Cc stable:

Acked-by: Kairui Song <kasong at tencent.com>