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    mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers · 38b5faf4
    Dan Magenheimer authored
    
    
    This patch, 2of4, contains the changes to the core swap subsystem.
    This includes:
    
    (1) makes available core swap data structures (swap_lock, swap_list and
    swap_info) that are needed by frontswap.c but we don't need to expose them
    to the dozens of files that include swap.h so we create a new swapfile.h
    just to extern-ify these and modify their declarations to non-static
    
    (2) adds frontswap-related elements to swap_info_struct.  Frontswap_map
    points to vzalloc'ed one-bit-per-swap-page metadata that indicates
    whether the swap page is in frontswap or in the device and frontswap_pages
    counts how many pages are in frontswap.
    
    (3) adds hooks in the swap subsystem and extends try_to_unuse so that
    frontswap_shrink can do a "partial swapoff".
    
    Note that a failed frontswap_map allocation is safe... failure is noted
    by lack of "FS" in the subsequent printk.
    
    ---
    
    [v14: rebase to 3.4-rc2]
    [v10: no change]
    [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: mark some statics __read_mostly]
    [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: add clarifying comments]
    [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: no need to loop repeating try_to_unuse]
    [v9: error27@gmail.com: remove superfluous check for NULL]
    [v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4]
    [v8: kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: change counter to atomic_t to avoid races]
    [v8: kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: comment to clarify informational counters]
    [v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3]
    [v7: JBeulich@novell.com: add new swap struct elements only if config'd]
    [v6: rebase to 3.0-rc1]
    [v6: lliubbo@gmail.com: fix null pointer deref if vzalloc fails]
    [v6: konrad.wilk@oracl.com: various checks and code clarifications/comments]
    [v5: no change from v4]
    [v4: rebase to 2.6.39]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSeth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
    Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
    Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    [v11: Rebased, fixed mm/swapfile.c context change]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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