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2017-06-05fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_tChristoph Hellwig1-3/+3
For some file systems we still memcpy into it, but in various places this already allows us to use the proper uuid helpers. More to come.. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Changes to IMA/EVM) Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2016-01-27cleancache: constify cleancache_ops structureJulia Lawall1-1/+1
The cleancache_ops structure is never modified, so declare it as const. Done with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2015-09-08xen/tmem: Use xen_page_to_gfn rather than pfn_to_gfnJulien Grall1-16/+8
All the caller of xen_tmem_{get,put}_page have a struct page * in hand and call pfn_to_gfn for the only benefits of these 2 functions. Rather than passing the pfn in parameter, pass directly the page and use directly xen_page_to_gfn. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-09-08xen: Use correctly the Xen memory terminologiesJulien Grall1-2/+2
Based on include/xen/mm.h [1], Linux is mistakenly using MFN when GFN is meant, I suspect this is because the first support for Xen was for PV. This resulted in some misimplementation of helpers on ARM and confused developers about the expected behavior. For instance, with pfn_to_mfn, we expect to get an MFN based on the name. Although, if we look at the implementation on x86, it's returning a GFN. For clarity and avoid new confusion, replace any reference to mfn with gfn in any helpers used by PV drivers. The x86 code will still keep some reference of pfn_to_mfn which may be used by all kind of guests No changes as been made in the hypercall field, even though they may be invalid, in order to keep the same as the defintion in xen repo. Note that page_to_mfn has been renamed to xen_page_to_gfn to avoid a name to close to the KVM function gfn_to_page. Take also the opportunity to simplify simple construction such as pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(page)) into xen_page_to_gfn. More complex clean up will come in follow-up patches. [1] http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=e758ed14f390342513405dd766e874934573e6cb Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-07-01Merge tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull xen updates from David Vrabel: "Xen features and cleanups for 4.2-rc0: - add "make xenconfig" to assist in generating configs for Xen guests - preparatory cleanups necessary for supporting 64 KiB pages in ARM guests - automatically use hvc0 as the default console in ARM guests" * tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: block/xen-blkback: s/nr_pages/nr_segs/ block/xen-blkfront: Remove invalid comment block/xen-blkfront: Remove unused macro MAXIMUM_OUTSTANDING_BLOCK_REQS arm/xen: Drop duplicate define mfn_to_virt xen/grant-table: Remove unused macro SPP xen/xenbus: client: Fix call of virt_to_mfn in xenbus_grant_ring xen: Include xen/page.h rather than asm/xen/page.h kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper kconfig: clarify kvmconfig is for kvm xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval xen/tmem: use BUILD_BUG_ON() in favor of BUG_ON() hvc_xen: avoid uninitialized variable warning xenbus: avoid uninitialized variable warning xen/arm: allow console=hvc0 to be omitted for guests arm,arm64/xen: move Xen initialization earlier arm/xen: Correctly check if the event channel interrupt is present
2015-06-25frontswap: allow multiple backendsDan Streetman1-7/+1
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>
2015-06-17xen: Include xen/page.h rather than asm/xen/page.hJulien Grall1-1/+1
Using xen/page.h will be necessary later for using common xen page helpers. As xen/page.h already include asm/xen/page.h, always use the later. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-05-28xen/tmem: use BUILD_BUG_ON() in favor of BUG_ON()Jan Beulich1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-04-15cleancache: forbid overriding cleancache_opsVladimir Davydov1-7/+9
Currently, cleancache_register_ops returns the previous value of cleancache_ops to allow chaining. However, chaining, as it is implemented now, is extremely dangerous due to possible pool id collisions. Suppose, a new cleancache driver is registered after the previous one assigned an id to a super block. If the new driver assigns the same id to another super block, which is perfectly possible, we will have two different filesystems using the same id. No matter if the new driver implements chaining or not, we are likely to get data corruption with such a configuration eventually. This patch therefore disables the ability to override cleancache_ops altogether as potentially dangerous. If there is already cleancache driver registered, all further calls to cleancache_register_ops will return EBUSY. Since no user of cleancache implements chaining, we only need to make minor changes to the code outside the cleancache core. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Stefan Hengelein <ilendir@googlemail.com> Cc: Florian Schmaus <fschmaus@gmail.com> Cc: Andor Daam <andor.daam@googlemail.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-23xen/tmem: mark xen_tmem_init() __initJan Beulich1-1/+1
As a module_init() function, this should have been this way from the beginning. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2013-07-04Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc0-tag-two' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: - Fix memory leak when CPU hotplugging. - Compile bugs with various #ifdefs - Fix state changes in Xen PCI front not dealing well with new toolstack. - Cleanups in code (use pr_*, fix 80 characters splits, etc) - Long standing bug in double-reporting the steal time * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc0-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip" xen: Convert printks to pr_<level> xen: ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS xen_*_suspend xen/pcifront: Deal with toolstack missing 'XenbusStateClosing' state. xen/time: Free onlined per-cpu data structure if we want to online it again. xen/time: Check that the per_cpu data structure has data before freeing. xen/time: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining. xen/time: Encapsulate the struct clock_event_device in another structure. xen/spinlock: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining. xen/smp: Don't leak interrupt name when offlining. xen/smp: Set the per-cpu IRQ number to a valid default. xen/smp: Introduce a common structure to contain the IRQ name and interrupt line. xen/smp: Coalesce the free_irq calls in one function. xen-pciback: fix error return code in pcistub_irq_handler_switch()
2013-06-28xen: Convert printks to pr_<level>Joe Perches1-4/+6
Convert printks to pr_<level> (excludes printk(KERN_DEBUG...) to be more consistent throughout the xen subsystem. Add pr_fmt with KBUILD_MODNAME or "xen:" KBUILD_MODNAME Coalesce formats and add missing word spaces Add missing newlines Align arguments and reflow to 80 columns Remove DRV_NAME from formats as pr_fmt adds the same content This does change some of the prefixes of these messages but it also does make them more consistent. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-06-10xen/tmem: Don't over-write tmem_frontswap_poolid after tmem_frontswap_init ↵Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-2/+2
set it. Commit 10a7a0771399a57a297fca9615450dbb3f88081a ("xen: tmem: enable Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module") allows the tmem module to be loaded any time. For this work the frontswap API had to be able to asynchronously to call tmem_frontswap_init before or after the swap image had been set. That was added in git commit 905cd0e1bf9ffe82d6906a01fd974ea0f70be97a ("mm: frontswap: lazy initialization to allow tmem backends to build/run as modules"). Which means we could do this (The common case): modprobe tmem [so calls frontswap_register_ops, no ->init] modifies tmem_frontswap_poolid = -1 swapon /dev/xvda1 [__frontswap_init, calls -> init, tmem_frontswap_poolid is < 0 so tmem hypercall done] Or the failing one: swapon /dev/xvda1 [calls __frontswap_init, sets the need_init bitmap] modprobe tmem [calls frontswap_register_ops, -->init calls, finds out tmem_frontswap_poolid is 0, does not make a hypercall. Later in the module_init, sets tmem_frontswap_poolid=-1] Which meant that in the failing case we would not call the hypercall to initialize the pool and never be able to make any frontswap backend calls. Moving the frontswap_register_ops after setting the tmem_frontswap_poolid fixes it. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
2013-05-28xmem/tmem: fix 'undefined variable' build error.Frederico Cadete1-0/+2
In the (not so useful) kernel configuration where CONFIG_SWAP is undefined and CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING is defined, xen_tmem_init would use undefined variable 'static bool frontswap'. Added #else to have #define frontswap (0) in the case where CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is not defined. Signed-off-by: Frederico Cadete <frederico@cadete.eu> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Don't use self[ballooning|shrinking] if frontswap is off.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-0/+8
There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and more pages in the swap disk without any purpose. The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking is when frontswap is being utilized. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Remove the boot options and fold them in the tmem.X parameters.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-24/+4
If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option> instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and "nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning"; and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c and the patches: xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead. xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead. remove them. Also add documentation. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: s/disable_// and change the logic.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-14/+13
The variety of disable_[cleancache|frontswap|selfshrinking] are making this a bit complex. Just remove the "disable_" part and change the logic around for the "nofrontswap" and "nocleancache" parameters. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Fix compile warning.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-4/+2
We keep on getting: drivers/xen/tmem.c:65:13: warning: ‘disable_frontswap_selfshrinking’ defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] if CONFIG_FRONTSWAP=y and # CONFIG_CLEANCACHE is not set Found by 0 day test project Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Split out the different module/boot options.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-3/+8
There are three options - depending on what combination of CONFIG_FRONTSWAP, CONFIG_CLEANCACHE and CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING is used. Lets split them out nicely out in three groups to make it easier to clean up. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Move all of the boot and module parameters to the top of the file.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-40/+45
Just code movement to see the different boot or module parameters. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Cleanup. Remove the parts that say temporary.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-4/+0
Frontswap is upstream, no need to having this #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-01zcache/tmem: Better error checking on frontswap_register_ops return value.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-1/+4
In the past it either used to be NULL or the "older" backend. Now we also return -Exx error codes. 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>
2013-05-01xen: tmem: enable Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a moduleDan Magenheimer1-9/+31
Allow Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module. Xen self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking are now also "lazily" initialized when the Xen tmem shim is loaded as a module, unless explicitly disabled by module parameters. Note runtime dependency disallows loading if cleancache/frontswap lazy initialization patches are not present. If built-in (not built as a module), the original mechanism of enabling via a kernel boot parameter is retained, but this should be considered deprecated. Note that module unload is explicitly not yet supported. [v1: Removed the [CLEANCACHE|FRONTSWAP]_HAS_LAZY_INIT ifdef] [v2: Squashed the xen/tmem: Remove the subsys call patch in] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build (disable_frontswap_selfshrinking undeclared)] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> 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: 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>
2013-05-01cleancache: Make cleancache_init use a pointer for the opsKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-3/+3
Instead of using a backend_registered to determine whether a backend is enabled. This allows us to remove the backend_register check and just do 'if (cleancache_ops)' [v1: Rebase on top of b97c4b430b0a (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>
2013-05-01frontswap: make frontswap_init use a pointer for the opsKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-3/+3
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>
2013-02-20xen/tmem: Add missing %s in the printk statement.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-1/+1
Seems that it got lost. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-08-21xen/apic/xenbus/swiotlb/pcifront/grant/tmem: Make functions or variables static.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-0/+1
There is no need for those functions/variables to be visible. Make them static and also fix the compile warnings of this sort: drivers/xen/<some file>.c: warning: symbol '<blah>' was not declared. Should it be static? Some of them just require including the header file that declares the functions. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-15frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/loadKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-4/+4
Sounds so much more natural. Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-24Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-tag-two' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-13/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen Pull more xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "One tiny feature that accidentally got lost in the initial git pull: * Add fast-EOI acking of interrupts (clear a bit instead of hypercall) And bug-fixes: * Fix CPU bring-up code missing a call to notify other subsystems. * Fix reading /sys/hypervisor even if PVonHVM drivers are not loaded. * In Xen ACPI processor driver: remove too verbose WARN messages, fix up the Kconfig dependency to be a module by default, and add dependency on CPU_FREQ. * Disable CPU frequency drivers from loading when booting under Xen (as we want the Xen ACPI processor to be used instead). * Cleanups in tmem code." * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen/acpi: Fix Kconfig dependency on CPU_FREQ xen: initialize platform-pci even if xen_emul_unplug=never xen/smp: Fix bringup bug in AP code. xen/acpi: Remove the WARN's as they just create noise. xen/tmem: cleanup xen: support pirq_eoi_map xen/acpi-processor: Do not depend on CPU frequency scaling drivers. xen/cpufreq: Disable the cpu frequency scaling drivers from loading. provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.
2012-03-20xen/tmem: cleanupJan Beulich1-13/+8
Use 'bool' for boolean variables. Do proper section placement. Eliminate an unnecessary export. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-01-24mm: zcache/tmem/cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/Dan Magenheimer1-5/+5
Complete the renaming from "flush" to "invalidate" across both tmem frontends (cleancache and frontswap) and both tmem backends (Xen and zcache), as required by akpm. This change is completely cosmetic. [v10: no change] [v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 3] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: 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> [v11: Remove the frontswap part] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-18xen: prepare tmem shim to handle frontswapDan Magenheimer1-12/+158
Provide the shim code for frontswap for Xen tmem even if the frontswap patchset is not present yet. (The egg is before the chicken.) Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-05-26xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent MemoryDan Magenheimer1-0/+264
This patch provides a shim between the kernel-internal cleancache API (see Documentation/mm/cleancache.txt) and the Xen Transcendent Memory ABI (see http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem). Xen tmem provides "hypervisor RAM" as an ephemeral page-oriented pseudo-RAM store for cleancache pages, shared cleancache pages, and frontswap pages. Tmem provides enterprise-quality concurrency, full save/restore and live migration support, compression and deduplication. A presentation showing up to 8% faster performance and up to 52% reduction in sectors read on a kernel compile workload, despite aggressive in-kernel page reclamation ("self-ballooning") can be found at: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/presentations/TranscendentMemoryXenSummit2010.pdf Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>