From: Dan Magenheimer Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 23:09:27 +0000 (-0600) Subject: mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality X-Git-Tag: v3.5-rc2~37^2~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29f233cfffe7fbc6672938117ce7e4154a2f515f;p=pandora-kernel.git mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality This patch, 3of4, provides the core frontswap code that interfaces between the hooks in the swap subsystem and a frontswap backend via frontswap_ops. --- New file added: mm/frontswap.c [v14: add support for writethrough, per suggestion by aarcange@redhat.com] [v11: sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: s/puts/failed_puts/] [v10: sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix debugfs calls on 32-bit] [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 1] [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: add comment to clarify find_next_to_unuse] [v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3] [v7: JBeulich@novell.com: use new static inlines, no-ops if not config'd] [v6: rebase to 3.1-rc1] [v6: lliubbo@gmail.com: use vzalloc] [v6: lliubbo@gmail.com: fix null pointer deref if vzalloc fails] [v6: konrad.wilk@oracl.com: various checks and code clarifications/comments] [v4: rebase to 2.6.39] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer Acked-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Seth Jennings Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Rik Riel Cc: Andrew Morton [v12: Squashed s/flush/invalidate/ in] [v15: A bit of cleanup and seperate DEBUGFS] Signed-off-by: Konrad Wilk --- Reading git-diff-tree failed