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authorDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>2015-06-24 16:58:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-24 17:49:45 -0700
commitd1dc6f1bcf1e998e7ce65fc120da371ab047a999 (patch)
tree62626a5b4404a960bb2e12992033283ad244734b /drivers/xen
parentb05b9f5f9dcf593a0e9327676b78e6c17b4218e8 (diff)
frontswap: allow multiple backends
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/tmem.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
index c4211a31612d..d88f36754bf7 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
@@ -381,15 +381,9 @@ static int __init xen_tmem_init(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
if (tmem_enabled && frontswap) {
char *s = "";
- struct frontswap_ops *old_ops;
tmem_frontswap_poolid = -1;
- old_ops = frontswap_register_ops(&tmem_frontswap_ops);
- if (IS_ERR(old_ops) || old_ops) {
- if (IS_ERR(old_ops))
- return PTR_ERR(old_ops);
- s = " (WARNING: frontswap_ops overridden)";
- }
+ frontswap_register_ops(&tmem_frontswap_ops);
pr_info("frontswap enabled, RAM provided by Xen Transcendent Memory%s\n",
s);
}