[RFC v2 25/43] mm: shmem: prevent swapping of PKRAM-enabled tmpfs pages
Anthony Yznaga
anthony.yznaga at oracle.com
Tue Mar 30 22:36:00 BST 2021
Work around the limitation that shmem pages must be in memory in order
to be preserved by preventing them from being swapped out in the first
place. Do this by marking shmem pages associated with a PKRAM node
as unevictable.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga at oracle.com>
---
mm/shmem.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index c1c5760465f2..8dfe80aeee97 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2400,6 +2400,8 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->swaplist);
simple_xattrs_init(&info->xattrs);
cache_no_acl(inode);
+ if (sbinfo->pkram)
+ mapping_set_unevictable(inode->i_mapping);
switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
default:
--
1.8.3.1
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