Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/zswap: refoctor the get/put routines

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 14 2013 - 18:26:21 EST


On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:12:34 +0800 Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The refcount routine was not fit the kernel get/put semantic exactly,
> There were too many judgement statements on refcount and it could be minus.
>
> This patch does the following:
>
> - move refcount judgement to zswap_entry_put() to hide resource free function.
>
> - add a new function zswap_entry_find_get(), so that callers can use easily
> in the following pattern:
>
> zswap_entry_find_get
> .../* do something */
> zswap_entry_put
>
> - to eliminate compile error, move some functions declaration
>
> This patch is based on Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> 's idea and suggestion.
>
> ...
>
> @@ -815,7 +809,7 @@ static void zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area(unsigned type)
> */
> while ((node = rb_first(&tree->rbroot))) {
> entry = rb_entry(node, struct zswap_entry, rbnode);
> - rb_erase(&entry->rbnode, &tree->rbroot);
> + zswap_rb_erase(&tree->rbroot, entry);
> zbud_free(tree->pool, entry->handle);
> zswap_entry_cache_free(entry);
> atomic_dec(&zswap_stored_pages);
> --

zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area() has changed significantly in curent
mainline, so this will need redoing please.

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