The swap token is only useful in conditions of swap thrash, and actually worsens the common case by causing more swapping. Make it only have an effect when swap is more than half full.

-ck
While it may be nice to have a copy of pages on swap once written there, the more garbage we leave in the swapspace the slower any further writes and reads to and from it are. Just free swapcache whenever we can.

-ck
When reading from large files through the generic file read functions into page cache we can detect when a file is so large that it is unlikely to be fully cached in ram. If that happens we can put it on the tail end of the inactive lru list so it can be the first thing evicted next time we need ram.

Do lots of funny buggers with underscores to preserve most of the existing
APIs.

-ck
frontswap part 1
frontswap part2
frontswap 3
frontswap 4
enable and fix frontswap compiling
frontswap 5
fs/block_dev.c part is still located at buffer.c (changes in linux 3.3) --> change this part in buffer.c
more frontswap
frontpage 7+8
staging: zcache: support multiple clients, prep for KVM and RAMster

This is version 3 of an update to zcache, incorporating feedback from the list.
This patch adds support to the in-kernel transcendent memory ("tmem") code
and the zcache driver for multiple clients, which will be needed for both
RAMster and KVM support.  It also adds additional tmem callbacks to support
RAMster and corresponding no-op stubs in the zcache driver.  In v2, I've
also taken the liberty of adding some additional sysfs variables to
both surface information and allow policy control.  Those experimenting
with zcache should find them useful.  V3 clarifies some code walking
and declaring arrays.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>

[v3: error27@gmail.com: fix array bounds/walking]
[v2: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix bools, add check for NULL, fix a comment]
[v2: sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: add info/tunables for poor compression]
[v2: marcusklemm@googlemail.com: add tunable for max persistent pages]
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
staging: zcache: module is GPL

This avoids tainting the kernel as if a proprietary module was loaded.
The kernel will still be tainted because this is a staging driver.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
staging: zcache: include module.h for MODULE_LICENSE

The oncoming cleanup of module.h usage requires the explicit inclusion
of module.h when it was otherwise being included indirectly. Otherwise,
building zcache will fail.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
zcache: Use div_u64 for 64-bit division

xv_get_total_size_bytes returns a u64 value and it's used in a division.
This causes build failures in 32-bit architectures, as reported by Randy
Dunlap.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
zcache: Fix build error when sysfs is not defined

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
staging: zcache: fix possible sleep under lock

zcache_new_pool() calls kmalloc() with GFP_KERNEL which has
__GFP_WAIT set.  However, zcache_new_pool() gets called on
a stack that holds the swap_lock spinlock, leading to a
possible sleep-with-lock situation. The lock is obtained
in enable_swap_info().

The patch replaces GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC.

v2: replace with GFP_ATOMIC, not GFP_IOFS

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@suse.de>
staging: zcache: fix typos

The patch fixes two typos in zcache-main.c

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@suse.de>
staging: zcache: fix crash on high memory swap

zcache_put_page() was modified to pass page_address(page) instead of the
actual page structure. In combination with the function signature changes
to tmem_put() and zcache_pampd_create(), zcache_pampd_create() tries to
(re)derive the page structure from the virtual address.  However, if the
original page is a high memory page (or any unmapped page), this
virt_to_page() fails because the page_address() in zcache_put_page()
returned NULL.

This patch changes zcache_put_page() and zcache_get_page() to pass
the page structure instead of the page's virtual address, which
may or may not exist.

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@suse.de>
staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash

After commit c5f5c4db3938 ("staging: zcache: fix crash on high memory
swap") cleancache crashes on the first successful get.  This was caused
by a remaining virt_to_page() call in zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free()
that only gets run in the cleancache path.

The patch converts the virt_to_page() to struct page casting like was
done for other instances in c5f5c4db3938.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>