On 11/24/25 at 05:56pm, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

Hi Baoquan,

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 08:31:10PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:

quoted

This update the description about default priority value which is
changed in kernel.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251011081624.224202-1-bhe@redhat.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: chrisl@kernel.org
Cc: baohua@kernel.org
Cc: alx@kernel.org
---
 man/man2/swapon.2 | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/swapon.2 b/man/man2/swapon.2
index df5e8d8c7ec6..20e213827733 100644
--- a/man/man2/swapon.2
+++ b/man/man2/swapon.2

@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ These functions may be used only by a privileged process (one having the
 capability).
 .SS Priority
 Each swap area has a priority, either high or low.
-The default priority is low.
-Within the low-priority areas,
-newer areas are even lower priority than older areas.
+The default priority is the lowest,
+and all default areas share the same priority value, -1.

Please document the old behavior in the HISTORY section.

Sure, I will send a new version once the relevant kernel patches are
merged into linus's mainline kernel. Now, it's in Andrew Mortan's MM
tree, the commits are temporary.

Will add the old behaviour as you suggested in v3. Thanks a lot for your
suggestion.

Thanks
Baoquan