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This patch, 3of4, provides the core frontswap code that interfaces between
the hooks in the swap subsystem and a frontswap backend via frontswap_ops.
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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 <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
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>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v12: Squashed s/flush/invalidate/ in]
[v15: A bit of cleanup and seperate DEBUGFS]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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