diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 5a14b928164e..8bb85d6d65f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ struct percpu_cluster {
 struct swap_info_struct {
 	unsigned long	flags;		/* SWP_USED etc: see above */
 	signed short	prio;		/* swap priority of this type */
+	struct list_head list;		/* entry in swap list */
 	signed char	type;		/* strange name for an index */
-	signed char	next;		/* next type on the swap list */
 	unsigned int	max;		/* extent of the swap_map */
 	unsigned char *swap_map;	/* vmalloc'ed array of usage counts */
 	struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info; /* cluster info. Only for SSD */
@@ -255,11 +255,6 @@ struct swap_info_struct {
 	struct swap_cluster_info discard_cluster_tail; /* list tail of discard clusters */
 };
 
-struct swap_list_t {
-	int head;	/* head of priority-ordered swapfile list */
-	int next;	/* swapfile to be used next */
-};
-
 /* linux/mm/workingset.c */
 void *workingset_eviction(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
 bool workingset_refault(void *shadow);
diff --git a/include/linux/swapfile.h b/include/linux/swapfile.h
index e282624e8c10..2eab382d593d 100644
--- a/include/linux/swapfile.h
+++ b/include/linux/swapfile.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * want to expose them to the dozens of source files that include swap.h
  */
 extern spinlock_t swap_lock;
-extern struct swap_list_t swap_list;
+extern struct list_head swap_list_head;
 extern struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[];
 extern int try_to_unuse(unsigned int, bool, unsigned long);
 
diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
index 1b24bdcb3197..fae11602e8a9 100644
--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -327,15 +327,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__frontswap_invalidate_area);
 
 static unsigned long __frontswap_curr_pages(void)
 {
-	int type;
 	unsigned long totalpages = 0;
 	struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL;
 
 	assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock);
-	for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) {
-		si = swap_info[type];
+	list_for_each_entry(si, &swap_list_head, list)
 		totalpages += atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages);
-	}
 	return totalpages;
 }
 
@@ -347,11 +344,9 @@ static int __frontswap_unuse_pages(unsigned long total, unsigned long *unused,
 	int si_frontswap_pages;
 	unsigned long total_pages_to_unuse = total;
 	unsigned long pages = 0, pages_to_unuse = 0;
-	int type;
 
 	assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock);
-	for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = si->next) {
-		si = swap_info[type];
+	list_for_each_entry(si, &swap_list_head, list) {
 		si_frontswap_pages = atomic_read(&si->frontswap_pages);
 		if (total_pages_to_unuse < si_frontswap_pages) {
 			pages = pages_to_unuse = total_pages_to_unuse;
@@ -366,7 +361,7 @@ static int __frontswap_unuse_pages(unsigned long total, unsigned long *unused,
 		}
 		vm_unacct_memory(pages);
 		*unused = pages_to_unuse;
-		*swapid = type;
+		*swapid = si->type;
 		ret = 0;
 		break;
 	}
@@ -413,7 +408,7 @@ void frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages)
 	/*
 	 * we don't want to hold swap_lock while doing a very
 	 * lengthy try_to_unuse, but swap_list may change
-	 * so restart scan from swap_list.head each time
+	 * so restart scan from swap_list_head each time
 	 */
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
 	ret = __frontswap_shrink(target_pages, &pages_to_unuse, &type);
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4a7f7e6992b6..6c95a8c63b1a 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -51,14 +51,17 @@ atomic_long_t nr_swap_pages;
 /* protected with swap_lock. reading in vm_swap_full() doesn't need lock */
 long total_swap_pages;
 static int least_priority;
-static atomic_t highest_priority_index = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
 
 static const char Bad_file[] = "Bad swap file entry ";
 static const char Unused_file[] = "Unused swap file entry ";
 static const char Bad_offset[] = "Bad swap offset entry ";
 static const char Unused_offset[] = "Unused swap offset entry ";
 
-struct swap_list_t swap_list = {-1, -1};
+/*
+ * all active swap_info_structs
+ * protected with swap_lock, and ordered by priority.
+ */
+LIST_HEAD(swap_list_head);
 
 struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[MAX_SWAPFILES];
 
@@ -640,66 +643,54 @@ no_page:
 
 swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void)
 {
-	struct swap_info_struct *si;
+	struct swap_info_struct *si, *next;
 	pgoff_t offset;
-	int type, next;
-	int wrapped = 0;
-	int hp_index;
+	struct list_head *tmp;
 
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
 	if (atomic_long_read(&nr_swap_pages) <= 0)
 		goto noswap;
 	atomic_long_dec(&nr_swap_pages);
 
-	for (type = swap_list.next; type >= 0 && wrapped < 2; type = next) {
-		hp_index = atomic_xchg(&highest_priority_index, -1);
-		/*
-		 * highest_priority_index records current highest priority swap
-		 * type which just frees swap entries. If its priority is
-		 * higher than that of swap_list.next swap type, we use it.  It
-		 * isn't protected by swap_lock, so it can be an invalid value
-		 * if the corresponding swap type is swapoff. We double check
-		 * the flags here. It's even possible the swap type is swapoff
-		 * and swapon again and its priority is changed. In such rare
-		 * case, low prority swap type might be used, but eventually
-		 * high priority swap will be used after several rounds of
-		 * swap.
-		 */
-		if (hp_index != -1 && hp_index != type &&
-		    swap_info[type]->prio < swap_info[hp_index]->prio &&
-		    (swap_info[hp_index]->flags & SWP_WRITEOK)) {
-			type = hp_index;
-			swap_list.next = type;
-		}
-
-		si = swap_info[type];
-		next = si->next;
-		if (next < 0 ||
-		    (!wrapped && si->prio != swap_info[next]->prio)) {
-			next = swap_list.head;
-			wrapped++;
-		}
-
+	list_for_each(tmp, &swap_list_head) {
+		si = list_entry(tmp, typeof(*si), list);
 		spin_lock(&si->lock);
-		if (!si->highest_bit) {
-			spin_unlock(&si->lock);
-			continue;
-		}
-		if (!(si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK)) {
+		if (!si->highest_bit || !(si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK)) {
 			spin_unlock(&si->lock);
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		swap_list.next = next;
+		/*
+		 * rotate the current swap_info that we're going to use
+		 * to after any other swap_info that have the same prio,
+		 * so that all equal-priority swap_info get used equally
+		 */
+		next = si;
+		list_for_each_entry_continue(next, &swap_list_head, list) {
+			if (si->prio != next->prio)
+				break;
+			list_rotate_left(&si->list);
+			next = si;
+		}
 
 		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 		/* This is called for allocating swap entry for cache */
 		offset = scan_swap_map(si, SWAP_HAS_CACHE);
 		spin_unlock(&si->lock);
 		if (offset)
-			return swp_entry(type, offset);
+			return swp_entry(si->type, offset);
 		spin_lock(&swap_lock);
-		next = swap_list.next;
+		/*
+		 * if we got here, it's likely that si was almost full before,
+		 * and since scan_swap_map() can drop the si->lock, multiple
+		 * callers probably all tried to get a page from the same si
+		 * and it filled up before we could get one.  So we need to
+		 * try again.  Since we dropped the swap_lock, there may now
+		 * be non-full higher priority swap_infos, and this si may have
+		 * even been removed from the list (although very unlikely).
+		 * Let's start over.
+		 */
+		tmp = &swap_list_head;
 	}
 
 	atomic_long_inc(&nr_swap_pages);
@@ -766,27 +757,6 @@ out:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-/*
- * This swap type frees swap entry, check if it is the highest priority swap
- * type which just frees swap entry. get_swap_page() uses
- * highest_priority_index to search highest priority swap type. The
- * swap_info_struct.lock can't protect us if there are multiple swap types
- * active, so we use atomic_cmpxchg.
- */
-static void set_highest_priority_index(int type)
-{
-	int old_hp_index, new_hp_index;
-
-	do {
-		old_hp_index = atomic_read(&highest_priority_index);
-		if (old_hp_index != -1 &&
-			swap_info[old_hp_index]->prio >= swap_info[type]->prio)
-			break;
-		new_hp_index = type;
-	} while (atomic_cmpxchg(&highest_priority_index,
-		old_hp_index, new_hp_index) != old_hp_index);
-}
-
 static unsigned char swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p,
 				     swp_entry_t entry, unsigned char usage)
 {
@@ -830,7 +800,6 @@ static unsigned char swap_entry_free(struct swap_info_struct *p,
 			p->lowest_bit = offset;
 		if (offset > p->highest_bit)
 			p->highest_bit = offset;
-		set_highest_priority_index(p->type);
 		atomic_long_inc(&nr_swap_pages);
 		p->inuse_pages--;
 		frontswap_invalidate_page(p->type, offset);
@@ -1765,7 +1734,7 @@ static void _enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio,
 				unsigned char *swap_map,
 				struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info)
 {
-	int i, prev;
+	struct swap_info_struct *si;
 
 	if (prio >= 0)
 		p->prio = prio;
@@ -1777,18 +1746,28 @@ static void _enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio,
 	atomic_long_add(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
 	total_swap_pages += p->pages;
 
-	/* insert swap space into swap_list: */
-	prev = -1;
-	for (i = swap_list.head; i >= 0; i = swap_info[i]->next) {
-		if (p->prio >= swap_info[i]->prio)
-			break;
-		prev = i;
+	assert_spin_locked(&swap_lock);
+	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&p->list));
+	/*
+	 * insert into swap list; the list is in priority order,
+	 * so that get_swap_page() can get a page from the highest
+	 * priority swap_info_struct with available page(s), and
+	 * swapoff can adjust the auto-assigned (i.e. negative) prio
+	 * values for any lower-priority swap_info_structs when
+	 * removing a negative-prio swap_info_struct
+	 */
+	list_for_each_entry(si, &swap_list_head, list) {
+		if (p->prio >= si->prio) {
+			list_add_tail(&p->list, &si->list);
+			return;
+		}
 	}
-	p->next = i;
-	if (prev < 0)
-		swap_list.head = swap_list.next = p->type;
-	else
-		swap_info[prev]->next = p->type;
+	/*
+	 * this covers two cases:
+	 * 1) p->prio is less than all existing prio
+	 * 2) the swap list is empty
+	 */
+	list_add_tail(&p->list, &swap_list_head);
 }
 
 static void enable_swap_info(struct swap_info_struct *p, int prio,
@@ -1823,8 +1802,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	struct address_space *mapping;
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct filename *pathname;
-	int i, type, prev;
-	int err;
+	int err, found = 0;
 	unsigned int old_block_size;
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
@@ -1842,17 +1820,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 		goto out;
 
 	mapping = victim->f_mapping;
-	prev = -1;
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
-	for (type = swap_list.head; type >= 0; type = swap_info[type]->next) {
-		p = swap_info[type];
+	list_for_each_entry(p, &swap_list_head, list) {
 		if (p->flags & SWP_WRITEOK) {
-			if (p->swap_file->f_mapping == mapping)
+			if (p->swap_file->f_mapping == mapping) {
+				found = 1;
 				break;
+			}
 		}
-		prev = type;
 	}
-	if (type < 0) {
+	if (!found) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 		goto out_dput;
@@ -1864,20 +1841,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 		goto out_dput;
 	}
-	if (prev < 0)
-		swap_list.head = p->next;
-	else
-		swap_info[prev]->next = p->next;
-	if (type == swap_list.next) {
-		/* just pick something that's safe... */
-		swap_list.next = swap_list.head;
-	}
 	spin_lock(&p->lock);
 	if (p->prio < 0) {
-		for (i = p->next; i >= 0; i = swap_info[i]->next)
-			swap_info[i]->prio = p->prio--;
+		struct swap_info_struct *si = p;
+
+		list_for_each_entry_continue(si, &swap_list_head, list) {
+			si->prio++;
+		}
 		least_priority++;
 	}
+	list_del_init(&p->list);
 	atomic_long_sub(p->pages, &nr_swap_pages);
 	total_swap_pages -= p->pages;
 	p->flags &= ~SWP_WRITEOK;
@@ -1885,7 +1858,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 
 	set_current_oom_origin();
-	err = try_to_unuse(type, false, 0); /* force all pages to be unused */
+	err = try_to_unuse(p->type, false, 0); /* force unuse all pages */
 	clear_current_oom_origin();
 
 	if (err) {
@@ -1926,7 +1899,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	frontswap_map = frontswap_map_get(p);
 	spin_unlock(&p->lock);
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
-	frontswap_invalidate_area(type);
+	frontswap_invalidate_area(p->type);
 	frontswap_map_set(p, NULL);
 	mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex);
 	free_percpu(p->percpu_cluster);
@@ -1935,7 +1908,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
 	vfree(cluster_info);
 	vfree(frontswap_map);
 	/* Destroy swap account information */
-	swap_cgroup_swapoff(type);
+	swap_cgroup_swapoff(p->type);
 
 	inode = mapping->host;
 	if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
@@ -2142,8 +2115,8 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 		 */
 	}
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->first_swap_extent.list);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->list);
 	p->flags = SWP_USED;
-	p->next = -1;
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&p->lock);