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2015-06-24frontswap: allow multiple backendsDan Streetman
Change frontswap single pointer to a singly linked list of frontswap implementations. Update Xen tmem implementation as register no longer returns anything. Frontswap only keeps track of a single implementation; any implementation that registers second (or later) will replace the previously registered implementation, and gets a pointer to the previous implementation that the new implementation is expected to pass all frontswap functions to if it can't handle the function itself. However that method doesn't really make much sense, as passing that work on to every implementation adds unnecessary work to implementations; instead, frontswap should simply keep a list of all registered implementations and try each implementation for any function. Most importantly, neither of the two currently existing frontswap implementations in the kernel actually do anything with any previous frontswap implementation that they replace when registering. This allows frontswap to successfully manage multiple implementations by keeping a list of them all. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30frontswap: get rid of swap_lock dependencyMinchan Kim
Frontswap initialization routine depends on swap_lock, which want to be atomic about frontswap's first appearance. IOW, frontswap is not present and will fail all calls OR frontswap is fully functional but if new swap_info_struct isn't registered by enable_swap_info, swap subsystem doesn't start I/O so there is no race between init procedure and page I/O working on frontswap. So let's remove unnecessary swap_lock dependency. Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> [v1: Rebased on my branch, reworked to work with backends loading late] [v2: Added a check for !map] [v3: Made the invalidate path follow the init path] [v4: Address comments by Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andor Daam <andor.daam@googlemail.com> Cc: Florian Schmaus <fschmaus@gmail.com> Cc: Stefan Hengelein <ilendir@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30mm: frontswap: cleanup codeBob Liu
After allowing tmem backends to build/run as modules, frontswap_enabled always true if defined CONFIG_FRONTSWAP. But frontswap_test() depends on whether backend is registered, mv it into frontswap.c using fronstswap_ops to make the decision. frontswap_set/clear are not used outside frontswap, so don't export them. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andor Daam <andor.daam@googlemail.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Florian Schmaus <fschmaus@gmail.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Stefan Hengelein <ilendir@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30frontswap: make frontswap_init use a pointer for the opsKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
This simplifies the code in the frontswap - we can get rid of the 'backend_registered' test and instead check against frontswap_ops. [v1: Rebase on top of 703ba7fe5e0 (ramster->zcache move] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andor Daam <andor.daam@googlemail.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Florian Schmaus <fschmaus@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Stefan Hengelein <ilendir@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-21frontswap: support exclusive gets if tmem backend is capableDan Magenheimer
Tmem, as originally specified, assumes that "get" operations performed on persistent pools never flush the page of data out of tmem on a successful get, waiting instead for a flush operation. This is intended to mimic the model of a swap disk, where a disk read is non-destructive. Unlike a disk, however, freeing up the RAM can be valuable. Over the years that frontswap was in the review process, several reviewers (and notably Hugh Dickins in 2010) pointed out that this would result, at least temporarily, in two copies of the data in RAM: one (compressed for zcache) copy in tmem, and one copy in the swap cache. We wondered if this could be done differently, at least optionally. This patch allows tmem backends to instruct the frontswap code that this backend performs exclusive gets. Zcache2 already contains hooks to support this feature. Other backends are completely unaffected unless/until they are updated to support this feature. While it is not clear that exclusive gets are a performance win on all workloads at all times, this small patch allows for experimentation by backends. P.S. Let's not quibble about the naming of "get" vs "read" vs "load" etc. The naming is currently horribly inconsistent between cleancache and frontswap and existing tmem backends, so will need to be straightened out as a separate patch. "Get" is used by the tmem architecture spec, existing backends, and all documentation and presentation material so I am using it in this patch. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-15frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/loadKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Sounds so much more natural. Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-15mm: frontswap: add frontswap header fileDan Magenheimer
Frontswap is the alter ego of cleancache, the "yang" to cleancache's "yin"... and more precisely frontswap is the provider of anonymous pages to transcendent memory to nicely complement cleancache's providing of clean pagecache pages to transcendent memory. For optimal use of transcendent memory, both are necessary... because a kernel under memory pressure first reclaims clean pagecache pages and, when under more memory pressure, starts swapping anonymous pages. Frontswap and cleancache (which was merged at 3.0) are the "frontends" and the only necessary changes to the core kernel for transcendent memory; all other supporting code -- the "backends" -- is implemented as drivers. See the LWN.net article "Transcendent memory in a nutshell" for a detailed overview of frontswap and related kernel parts: https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/ Frontswap code was first posted publicly in January 2009 and on LKML in May 2009, and has remained functionally stable for nearly three years now. It is barely invasive, touching only the swap subsystem and adds less than 100 lines of code to existing swap subsystem code files. It has improved syntactically substantially between V1 and this posting of V14, thanks to the review of a few kernel developers, and has adapted easily to at least one major swap subsystem change. As of 3.4, there are three in-tree users of frontswap patiently waiting for this patchset and for CONFIG_FRONTSWAP to be enabled: zcache (staging driver merged at 2.6.39), Xen tmem (merged at 3.0 and 3.1) and RAMster (staging driver merged at 3.4). In addition, a RFC has been posted for a KVM backend. The frontswap patchset has been in linux-next since next-110603. Earlier versions of frontswap already ship in the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and SuSE SLES. This patch, 1of4, provides the header file for the core code for frontswap that interfaces between the hooks in the swap subsystem and a frontswap backend via frontswap_ops. --- New file added: include/linux/frontswap.h [v14: add support for writethrough, per suggestion by aarcange@redhat.com] [v14: rebase to 3.4-rc2] [v11: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: squashed s/flush/invalidate/ in] [v10: no change] [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 1] [v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4] [v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3] [v7: JBeulich@novell.com: new static inlines resolve to no-ops if not config'd] [v7: JBeulich@novell.com: avoid redundant shifts/divides for *_bit lib calls] [v6: rebase to 3.1-rc1] [v5: no change from v4] [v4: rebase to 2.6.39] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Seth 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> [v15: int/bool on some functions] Signed-off-by: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>