kernel/linux.git/include/linux/swap_ops.h, branch master

mm/swap: move swap_ops into file systems for file system-based swap

2026-08-25T01:43:20+00:00

Currently swap to and from file systems goes through two indirect calls between the swap ops and the swap_rw method. Reduce this by directly providing the swap_ops from the file system. For this refactor swap_fs_submit into a swap_fs_prepare_rw helper that initializes the iov_iter on the callers stack so that file systems can call it directly, and use that to initialize file system specific ops in the NFS and SMB clients, which then get passed to swap_fs_activate. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723054622.3460249-4-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Chris Li Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Steve French Cc: Usama Arif Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/swap: add a new swap_ops.h header to allow for pluggable swap ops

2026-08-25T01:43:20+00:00

Add a new header to declare the swap_iocb, swap_ops and swap_ctx to allow for swap_ops implementations outside of mm/page_io.c. This will be used to remove the double indirection for file system-based swap. There is no functional change, just a move of the declarations. Note that there already is a swapops.h header, which is totally unrelated to struct swap_ops. The close naming is a bit unfortunate, but I could not think of a better name for this header. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723054622.3460249-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Chris Li Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Steve French Cc: Usama Arif Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton