From: NeilBrown Subject: doc: update documentation for swap_activate and swap_rw This documentation for ->swap_activate() has been out-of-date for a long time. This patch updates it to match recent changes, and adds documentation for the associated ->swap_rw() Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164859778126.29473.6778751233552859461.stgit@noble.brown Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Tested-by: David Howells Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 18 ++++++++++++------ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 17 ++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst~doc-update-documentation-for-swap_activate-and-swap_rw +++ a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -258,8 +258,9 @@ prototypes:: int (*launder_folio)(struct folio *); bool (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct folio *, size_t from, size_t count); int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *); - int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_activate)(struct swap_info_struct *sis, struct file *f, sector_t *span) int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_rw)(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter); locking rules: All except dirty_folio and freepage may block @@ -287,6 +288,7 @@ is_partially_uptodate: yes error_remove_page: yes swap_activate: no swap_deactivate: no +swap_rw: yes, unlocks ====================== ======================== ========= =============== ->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->readpage() may be called from @@ -386,15 +388,19 @@ cleaned, or an error value if not. Note getting mapped back in and redirtied, it needs to be kept locked across the entire operation. -->swap_activate will be called with a non-zero argument on -files backing (non block device backed) swapfiles. A return value -of zero indicates success, in which case this file can be used for -backing swapspace. The swapspace operations will be proxied to the -address space operations. +->swap_activate() will be called to prepare the given file for swap. It +should perform any validation and preparation necessary to ensure that +writes can be performed with minimal memory allocation. It should call +add_swap_extent(), or the helper iomap_swapfile_activate(), and return +the number of extents added. If IO should be submitted through +->swap_rw(), it should set SWP_FS_OPS, otherwise IO will be submitted +directly to the block device ``sis->bdev``. ->swap_deactivate() will be called in the sys_swapoff() path after ->swap_activate() returned success. +->swap_rw will be called for swap IO if SWP_FS_OPS was set by ->swap_activate(). + file_lock_operations ==================== --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst~doc-update-documentation-for-swap_activate-and-swap_rw +++ a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -749,8 +749,9 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following size_t count); void (*is_dirty_writeback) (struct page *, bool *, bool *); int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page); - int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_activate)(struct swap_info_struct *sis, struct file *f, sector_t *span) int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); + int (*swap_rw)(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter); }; ``writepage`` @@ -952,15 +953,21 @@ cache in your filesystem. The following unless you have them locked or reference counts increased. ``swap_activate`` - Called when swapon is used on a file to allocate space if - necessary and pin the block lookup information in memory. A - return value of zero indicates success, in which case this file - can be used to back swapspace. + + Called to prepare the given file for swap. It should perform + any validation and preparation necessary to ensure that writes + can be performed with minimal memory allocation. It should call + add_swap_extent(), or the helper iomap_swapfile_activate(), and + return the number of extents added. If IO should be submitted + through ->swap_rw(), it should set SWP_FS_OPS, otherwise IO will + be submitted directly to the block device ``sis->bdev``. ``swap_deactivate`` Called during swapoff on files where swap_activate was successful. +``swap_rw`` + Called to read or write swap pages when SWP_FS_OPS is set. The File Object =============== _