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Patch series "z3fold: support page migration", v2. This patchset implements page migration support and slightly better buddy search. To implement page migration support, z3fold has to move away from the current scheme of handle encoding. i. e. stop encoding page address in handles. Instead, a small per-page structure is created which will contain actual addresses for z3fold objects, while pointers to fields of that structure will be used as handles. Thus, it will be possible to change the underlying addresses to reflect page migration. To support migration itself, 3 callbacks will be implemented: 1: isolation callback: z3fold_page_isolate(): try to isolate the page by removing it from all lists. Pages scheduled for some activity and mapped pages will not be isolated. Return true if isolation was successful or false otherwise 2: migration callback: z3fold_page_migrate(): re-check critical conditions and migrate page contents to the new page provided by the system. Returns 0 on success or negative error code otherwise 3: putback callback: z3fold_page_putback(): put back the page if z3fold_page_migrate() for it failed permanently (i. e. not with -EAGAIN code). To make sure an isolated page doesn't get freed, its kref is incremented in z3fold_page_isolate() and decremented during post-migration compaction, if migration was successful, or by z3fold_page_putback() in the other case. Since the new handle encoding scheme implies slight memory consumption increase, better buddy search (which decreases memory consumption) is included in this patchset. This patch (of 4): Introduce a separate helper function for object allocation, as well as 2 smaller helpers to add a buddy to the list and to get a pointer to the pool from the z3fold header. No functional changes here. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417103633.a4bb770b5bf0fb7e43ce1666@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.vul@sony.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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