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authorSeth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-04-29 15:08:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-29 15:54:38 -0700
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mm: break up swap_writepage() for frontswap backends
swap_writepage() is currently where frontswap hooks into the swap write path to capture pages with the frontswap_store() function. However, if a frontswap backend wants to "resume" the writeback of a page to the swap device, it can't call swap_writepage() as the page will simply reenter the backend. This patch separates swap_writepage() into a top and bottom half, the bottom half named __swap_writepage() to allow a frontswap backend, like zswap, to resume writeback beyond the frontswap_store() hook. __add_to_swap_cache() is also made non-static so that the page for which writeback is to be resumed can be added to the swap cache. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index 7efcf1525921..fe43fd5578cf 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void show_swap_cache_info(void)
* __add_to_swap_cache resembles add_to_page_cache_locked on swapper_space,
* but sets SwapCache flag and private instead of mapping and index.
*/
-static int __add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry)
+int __add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry)
{
int error;
struct address_space *address_space;