linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] ramzswap: Handler for swap slot free callback

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Message-Id: <1273217107-2023-4-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org>
Date:	Fri,  7 May 2010 12:55:07 +0530
From:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Cyp <cyp561@...il.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	driverdev <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ramzswap: Handler for swap slot free callback

Install handler for swap_slot_free_notify callback which is called
when a swap slot is no longer used. This handler immediately frees
memory allocated corresponding to the given swap slot.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta
---
 drivers/staging/ramzswap/TODO           |    5 -----
 drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c |   22 +++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/ramzswap/TODO

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ramzswap/TODO b/drivers/staging/ramzswap/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d64e28..0000000
--- a/drivers/staging/ramzswap/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-TODO:
-	- Add support for swap notifiers
-
-Please send patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com> and
-Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c b/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
index ee5eb12..ab15276 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ramzswap/ramzswap_drv.c
@@ -795,14 +795,6 @@ static int ramzswap_write(struct ramzswap *rzs, struct bio *bio)
 
 	src = rzs->compress_buffer;
 
-	/*
-	 * System swaps to same sector again when the stored page
-	 * is no longer referenced by any process. So, its now safe
-	 * to free the memory that was allocated for this page.
-	 */
-	if (rzs->table[index].page || rzs_test_flag(rzs, index, RZS_ZERO))
-		ramzswap_free_page(rzs, index);
-
 	mutex_lock(&rzs->lock);
 
 	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
@@ -1295,9 +1287,21 @@ out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+void ramzswap_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned long index)
+{
+	struct ramzswap *rzs;
+
+	rzs = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
+	ramzswap_free_page(rzs, index);
+	rzs_stat64_inc(rzs, &rzs->stats.notify_free);
+
+	return;
+}
+
 static struct block_device_operations ramzswap_devops = {
 	.ioctl = ramzswap_ioctl,
-	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
+	.swap_slot_free_notify = ramzswap_slot_free_notify,
+	.owner = THIS_MODULE
 };
 
 static int create_device(struct ramzswap *rzs, int device_id)
-- 
1.6.6.1

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