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zcache is obsolete and not used anymore, Bob Liu has rewritten it and is
submitting it for inclusion through the main -mm tree, as it should have
been done in the first place...
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Allow zcache to be built/loaded as a module. Note runtime dependency
disallows loading if cleancache/frontswap lazy initialization patches
are not present. Zsmalloc support has not yet been merged into zcache
but, once merged, could now easily be selected via a module_param.
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.
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
[v1: Rebased with different order of patches]
[v2: Removed [CLEANCACHE|FRONTSWAP]_HAS_LAZY_INIT ifdef]
[v3: Rebased on top of ramster->zcache move]
[v4: Redid the Makefile]
[v5: s/ZCACHE2/ZCACHE/]
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>
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Add CONFIG_RAMSTER_DEBUG Kconfig entry.
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This pulls in all of the good fixes we need here.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On PPC64 we get this:
In file included from drivers/staging/zcache/debug.c:2:
drivers/staging/zcache/debug.h: In function 'dec_zcache_obj_count':
drivers/staging/zcache/debug.h:16: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUG_ON'
This simple patch adds the appropiate header file to finish
the compile and reverts
"staging: zcache: disable ZCACHE_DEBUG due to build error"
(5db5a20a50cfd078c78b13a988f237cca81aedc5)
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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In file included from drivers/staging/zcache/debug.c:2:0:
drivers/staging/zcache/debug.h: In function 'dec_zcache_obj_count':
drivers/staging/zcache/debug.h:16:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUG_ON' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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and also define this extra attribute in the Kconfig entry.
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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It was observed by Andrea Arcangeli in 2011 that zcache can get "full"
and there must be some way for compressed swap pages to be (uncompressed
and then) sent through to the backing swap disk. A prototype of this
functionality, called "unuse", was added in 2012 as part of a major update
to zcache (aka "zcache2"), but was left unfinished due to the unfortunate
temporary fork of zcache.
This earlier version of the code had an unresolved memory leak
and was anyway dependent on not-yet-upstream frontswap and mm changes.
The code was meanwhile adapted by Seth Jennings for similar
functionality in zswap (which he calls "flush"). Seth also made some
clever simplifications which are herein ported back to zcache. As a
result of those simplifications, the frontswap changes are no longer
necessary, but a slightly different (and simpler) set of mm changes are
still required [1]. The memory leak is also fixed.
Due to feedback from akpm in a zswap thread, this functionality in zcache
has now been renamed from "unuse" to "writeback".
Although this zcache writeback code now works, there are open questions
as how best to handle the policy that drives it. As a result, this
patch also ties writeback to a new config option. And, since the
code still depends on not-yet-upstreamed mm patches, to avoid build
problems, the config option added by this patch temporarily depends
on "BROKEN"; this config dependency can be removed in trees that
contain the necessary mm patches.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/29/540/ https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/29/539/
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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[V2: no code changes, patchset now generated via git format-patch -M]
In staging/zcache, adjust config/build due to ramster->zcache renaming
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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[V2: no code changes, patchset now generated via git format-patch -M]
In staging, rename ramster to zcache
The original zcache in staging was a "demo" version, and this new zcache
is a significant rewrite. While certain disagreements were being resolved,
both "old zcache" and "new zcache" needed to reside in the staging tree
simultaneously. In order to minimize code change and churn, the newer
version of zcache was temporarily merged into the "ramster" staging driver
which, prior to that, had at one time heavily leveraged the older version
of zcache. So, recently, "new zcache" resided in the ramster directory.
Got that? No? Sorry, temporary political compromises are rarely pretty.
The older version of zcache is no longer being maintained and has now
been removed from the staging tree. So now the newer version of zcache
can rightfully reclaim sole possession of the name "zcache".
FYI, this [PATCH 2/5] is simply a "git mv" generated by "git format-patch -M".
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Dan Magenheimer says that it is now safe to delete zcache, so quick,
before he changes his mind, drop the thing on the floor and run
screaming away.
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This patch switches zcache and zram dependency to ZSMALLOC
rather than X86. There is no net change since ZSMALLOC
depends on X86, however, this prevent further changes to
these files as zsmalloc dependencies change.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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ZCACHE is a boolean in the Kconfig. When selected, it
should require that CRYPTO be builtin (=y).
Currently, ZCACHE=y and CRYPTO=m is a valid configuration
when it should not be.
This patch changes the zcache Kconfig to enforce this
dependency.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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zcache cannot currently be loaded as a module. However
the Kconfig allows it to be built as a module; something that
the user probably does not intend since the module is not
loadable.
This patch switches zcache from a tristate to a bool in the Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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linux/vmalloc.h added to zsmalloc-main.c to resolve implicit
declaration errors.
X86 dependency added to zsmalloc and dependent drivers zcache and zram.
This X86 only requirement is not ideal. Working to find portable
functions for __flush_tlb_one and set_pte.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Replaces xvmalloc with zsmalloc as the persistent memory allocator
for zcache
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This patch allow zcache to use the crypto API for page compression.
It replaces the direct LZO compress/decompress calls with calls
into the crypto compression API. The compressor to be used is
specified in the kernel boot line with the zcache parameter like:
zcache=lzo or zcache=deflate. If the specified compressor can't
be loaded, zcache uses lzo as the default compressor.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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[PATCH V2 3/3] drivers/staging: zcache: misc build/config
Makefiles and Kconfigs to build zcache in drivers/staging
There is a dependency on xvmalloc.* which in 2.6.37 resides
in drivers/staging/zram. Should this move or disappear,
some Makefile/Kconfig changes will be required.
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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