ed46ff3d42
Btrfs has not allowed swap files since commit 35054394c4b3 ("Btrfs: stop
providing a bmap operation to avoid swapfile corruptions"). However, now
that the proper restrictions are in place, Btrfs can support swap files
through the swap file a_ops, similar to iomap in commit 67482129cdab
("iomap: add a swapfile activation function").
For Btrfs, activation needs to make sure that the file can be used as a
swap file, which currently means that it must be fully allocated as
NOCOW with no compression on one device. It must also do the proper
tracking so that ioctls will not interfere with the swap file.
Deactivation clears this tracking.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.