64-bit stats corruption was observed when ramzswap was
used on SMP systems. To prevent this, use separate spinlock
to protect these stats.
Also, replace stat_*() with rzs_stat*() to avoid possible
conflict with core kernel code.
Eventually, these will be converted to per-cpu counters
if this driver finds use on large scale systems and this
locking is found to affect scalability.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Creates RAM based block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which can be
used (only) as swap disks. Pages swapped to these are compressed
and stored in memory itself.
The module is called ramzswap.ko. It depends on:
- xvmalloc memory allocator (compiled with this driver)
- lzo_compress.ko
- lzo_decompress.ko
See ramzswap.txt for usage details.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nitin Gupta