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Commit fb0fec50 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson Committed by Daniel Vetter
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mm: Export nr_swap_pages



Some modules, like i915.ko, use swappable objects and may try to swap
them out under memory pressure (via the shrinker). Before doing so, they
want to check using get_nr_swap_pages() to see if any swap space is
available as otherwise they will waste time purging the object from the
device without recovering any memory for the system. This requires the
nr_swap_pages counter to be exported to the modules.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1449244734-25733-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


Acked-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
parent 934acce3
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