[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: migrate_pages() extension

Add direct migration support with fall back to swap.

Direct migration support on top of the swap based page migration facility.

This allows the direct migration of anonymous pages and the migration of file
backed pages by dropping the associated buffers (requires writeout).

Fall back to swap out if necessary.

The patch is based on lots of patches from the hotplug project but the code
was restructured, documented and simplified as much as possible.

Note that an additional patch that defines the migrate_page() method for
filesystems is necessary in order to avoid writeback for anonymous and file
backed pages.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index e53fef7051e6..d359fc022433 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ static inline int zone_reclaim(struct zone *z, gfp_t mask, unsigned int order)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 extern int isolate_lru_page(struct page *p);
 extern int putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l);
+extern int migrate_page(struct page *, struct page *);
+extern void migrate_page_copy(struct page *, struct page *);
 extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, struct list_head *t,
                 struct list_head *moved, struct list_head *failed);
 #else