linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 1/8] staging: zcache: introduce zero-filled pages handler

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Message-Id: <1363685150-18303-2-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:25:43 +0800
From:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/8] staging: zcache: introduce zero-filled pages handler

Introduce zero-filled pages handler to capture and handle zero pages.

Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index 328898e..d73dd4b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -460,6 +460,32 @@ static void zcache_obj_free(struct tmem_obj *obj, struct tmem_pool *pool)
 	kmem_cache_free(zcache_obj_cache, obj);
 }
 
+static bool page_is_zero_filled(void *ptr)
+{
+	unsigned int pos;
+	unsigned long *page;
+
+	page = (unsigned long *)ptr;
+
+	for (pos = 0; pos < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*page); pos++) {
+		if (page[pos])
+			return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+static void handle_zero_filled_page(void *page)
+{
+	void *user_mem;
+
+	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
+	memset(user_mem, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+	kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
+
+	flush_dcache_page(page);
+}
+
 static struct tmem_hostops zcache_hostops = {
 	.obj_alloc = zcache_obj_alloc,
 	.obj_free = zcache_obj_free,
-- 
1.7.7.6

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