Re: [PATCH] mm: kill frontswap

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Jul 17 2023 - 10:32:14 EST


On 7/17/23 16:12, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 04:42:13AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> > diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
>> > index 62195f72bf56..1b0128060792 100644
>> > --- a/mm/zswap.c
>> > +++ b/mm/zswap.c
>> > @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>> > /*
>> > * zswap.c - zswap driver file
>> > *
>> > - * zswap is a backend for frontswap that takes pages that are in the process
>> > + * zswap is a cache that takes pages that are in the process
>> > * of being swapped out and attempts to compress and store them in a
>> > * RAM-based memory pool. This can result in a significant I/O reduction on
>> > * the swap device and, in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster
>> > @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
>> > #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>> > #include <linux/types.h>
>> > #include <linux/atomic.h>
>> > -#include <linux/frontswap.h>
>> > #include <linux/rbtree.h>
>> > #include <linux/swap.h>
>> > #include <linux/crypto.h>
>>
>> To make this patch compile, I had to add zswap.h to the include list.
>
> I can fix that up, but I'm curious what kind of failure you saw. It
> built fine for me, not even a warning.

I get warnings but only with W=1 (worth fixing up though).

CC mm/zswap.o
mm/zswap.c:1203:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘zswap_store’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
1203 | bool zswap_store(struct page *page)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
mm/zswap.c:1382:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘zswap_load’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
1382 | bool zswap_load(struct page *page)
| ^~~~~~~~~~
mm/zswap.c:1470:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘zswap_invalidate’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
1470 | void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/zswap.c:1487:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘zswap_swapon’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
1487 | void zswap_swapon(int type)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/zswap.c:1502:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘zswap_swapoff’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
1502 | void zswap_swapoff(int type)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~