static ssize_t curr_pages_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
unsigned long target_pages;
int err;
err = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &target_pages);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
frontswap_shrink(target_pages);
return count;
}
/*
* Invoked by the selfballoon worker thread, uses current number of pages
* in frontswap (frontswap_curr_pages()), previous status, and control
* values (hysteresis and inertia) to determine if frontswap should be
* shrunk and what the new frontswap size should be. Note that
* frontswap_shrink is essentially a partial swapoff that immediately
* transfers pages from the "swap device" (frontswap) back into kernel
* RAM; despite the name, frontswap "shrinking" is very different from
* the "shrinker" interface used by the kernel MM subsystem to reclaim
* memory.
*/
static void frontswap_selfshrink(void)
{
static unsigned long cur_frontswap_pages;
static unsigned long last_frontswap_pages;
static unsigned long tgt_frontswap_pages;
last_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages;
cur_frontswap_pages = frontswap_curr_pages();
if (!cur_frontswap_pages ||
(cur_frontswap_pages > last_frontswap_pages)) {
frontswap_inertia_counter = frontswap_inertia;
return;
}
if (frontswap_inertia_counter && --frontswap_inertia_counter)
return;
if (cur_frontswap_pages <= frontswap_hysteresis)
tgt_frontswap_pages = 0;
else
tgt_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages -
(cur_frontswap_pages / frontswap_hysteresis);
frontswap_shrink(tgt_frontswap_pages);
}
static void __exit exit_frontswap(void)
{
frontswap_shrink(0UL);
}
