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Linus Torvalds a3fe778c78 Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 
In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because
 swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead of a swap disk.
 This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with some changes to the
 existing backends.
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Merge tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm

Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages.
  In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained
  because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead
  of a swap disk.  This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with
  some changes to the existing backends."

Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code
changing a line next to the new frontswap entry.

This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got
delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had
actual users.  Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and
Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE
users.

Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it
too.  So in it goes.

By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2)
via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
* tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm:
  frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load
  MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API
  mm: frontswap: config and doc files
  mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality
  mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers
  mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file
2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
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backing-dev.c backing-dev: fix wakeup timer races with bdi_unregister() 2012-02-01 16:52:49 +08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cleanup on addition to bootmem data list 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
bounce.c mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:27 +08:00
cleancache.c ->encode_fh() API change 2012-05-29 23:28:33 -04:00
compaction.c Revert "mm: compaction: handle incorrect MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type pageblocks" 2012-06-03 20:05:57 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap_xip.c fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time 2012-06-01 12:07:25 -04:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
frontswap.c frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load 2012-05-15 11:34:08 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec 2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm: fix vma_resv_map() NULL pointer 2012-05-30 08:48:13 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() 2012-01-03 12:06:32 -08:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h Revert "mm: compaction: handle incorrect MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type pageblocks" 2012-06-03 20:05:57 -07:00
Kconfig Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Disable early logging when kmemleak is off by default 2012-01-20 16:57:05 +00:00
ksm.c ksm: cleanup: introduce find_mergeable_vma() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c mm/fs: route MADV_REMOVE to FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE 2012-05-29 16:22:22 -07:00
Makefile Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: fix memory leak on extending regions 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: decrement static keys at real destroy time 2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: print physical addresses consistently with other parts of kernel 2012-05-29 16:22:21 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory_failure: let the compiler add the function name 2012-05-29 16:22:18 -07:00
memory.c thp, memcg: split hugepage for memcg oom on cow 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: do_migrate_pages(): rename arguments 2012-05-29 16:22:20 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: fix first round failure behavior 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
migrate.c mm: fix warning in __set_page_dirty_nobuffers 2012-06-03 20:05:47 -07:00
mincore.c mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
mlock.c vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarily 2012-03-06 18:23:36 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
mmu_context.c mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: add link from struct lruvec to struct zone 2012-05-29 16:22:26 -07:00
mprotect.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
mremap.c move security_mmap_addr() to saner place 2012-06-01 10:37:16 -04:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator 2012-05-29 16:22:22 -07:00
nommu.c new helper: vm_mmap_pgoff() 2012-06-01 10:37:18 -04:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only for userspace 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
page_alloc.c Revert "mm: compaction: handle incorrect MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type pageblocks" 2012-06-03 20:05:57 -07:00
page_cgroup.c page_cgroup: fix horrid swap accounting regression 2012-03-06 08:18:23 -08:00
page_io.c frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load 2012-05-15 11:34:08 -04:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added 2012-05-21 15:09:33 +02:00
page-writeback.c writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit 2012-05-06 13:41:58 +08:00
pagewalk.c mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c percpu: use bitmap_clear 2012-01-20 09:23:16 -08:00
percpu.c kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMP 2012-05-09 10:13:29 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c arch/tile: allow building Linux with transparent huge pages enabled 2012-05-25 12:48:21 -04:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: move readahead syscall to mm/readahead.c 2012-05-29 16:22:23 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove swap token code 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-03-28 15:04:26 -07:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-06-01 16:50:23 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator 2012-05-29 16:22:22 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix s390 BUG by __set_page_dirty_no_writeback on swap 2012-04-23 18:19:22 -07:00
swap.c mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec 2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
swapfile.c Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
truncate.c mm/fs: remove truncate_range 2012-05-29 16:22:23 -07:00
util.c new helper: vm_mmap_pgoff() 2012-06-01 10:37:18 -04:00
vmalloc.c mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init() 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
vmscan.c mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec 2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: remove debug fs entries on failure of file creation and made extfrag_debug_root dentry local 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00