From: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, chrisl@kernel.org, kasong@tencent.com,
nphamcs@gmail.com, baohua@kernel.org, youngjun.park@lge.com,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, yosry@kernel.org, shikemeng@huaweicloud.com,
chengming.zhou@linux.dev, baoquan.he@linux.dev, david@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 15/16] mm, swap: require zswap for xswap devices
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:45:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827094509.1016740-16-hebaoquan@kylinos.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260827094509.1016740-1-hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
xswap has no backing storage: swapped-out pages live only in zswap.
Without zswap, swapout always bounces back, so the device would
consume swap entry space without ever freeing memory. Refuse to
create a device when zswap is unavailable.
Runtime disabling of zswap after creation is safe: existing entries
stay loadable (zswap_load() gates on zswap_never_enabled(), not the
runtime zswap_enabled flag) and new swapouts merely bounce back to
memory without freeing it.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 451b46b747e3..ae0c549cc9aa 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -4349,6 +4349,10 @@ static int xswap_create(int percent)
if (percent < 1 || percent > 100)
return -EINVAL;
+ /* xswap has no backing store, it relies on zswap. */
+ if (!zswap_is_enabled())
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
si = alloc_swap_info();
if (IS_ERR(si))
return PTR_ERR(si);
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-27 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-27 9:44 [PATCH 00/16] xswap: extendable swap device backed by zswap Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 01/16] mm: zswap: return -ENOENT when the swap device is gone Baoquan He
2026-09-02 14:53 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-03 7:54 ` Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 02/16] mm: xswap support for zswap Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 03/16] mm, swap: add CONFIG_XSWAP and xswap fields to swap_info_struct Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 04/16] mm, swap: refactor free_swap_cluster_info to take swap_info_struct Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 05/16] mm, swap: add xswap cluster grow via VM_SPARSE vmalloc Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 06/16] mm, swap: add sysfs create interface for xswap Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 07/16] mm, swap: add xswap grow trigger on cluster allocation Baoquan He
2026-09-02 14:15 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-03 8:24 ` Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 08/16] mm, swap: add xswap_try_shrink and shrink trigger on cluster free Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:44 ` [PATCH 09/16] mm, swap: free backing pages in xswap_unmap_clusters Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` [PATCH 10/16] mm, swap: add nr_free_tail for O(1) xswap shrink detection Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` [PATCH 11/16] mm, swap: add adjustable runtime ceiling (nr_clusters) for xswap Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` [PATCH 12/16] mm, swap: add debugfs knob for xswap per-device cluster limit Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm, swap: defer xswap shrink to workqueue to avoid lock recursion Baoquan He
2026-09-02 14:50 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-03 9:17 ` Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm, swap: refactor swapoff + add xswap_destroy Baoquan He
2026-09-03 6:59 ` Youngjun Park
2026-09-04 5:33 ` Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2026-09-03 6:52 ` [PATCH 15/16] mm, swap: require zswap for xswap devices Youngjun Park
2026-09-04 7:57 ` Baoquan He
2026-08-27 9:45 ` [PATCH 16/16] mm, swap: allow setting xswap device priority at creation Baoquan He
2026-08-27 13:59 ` [syzbot ci] Re: xswap: extendable swap device backed by zswap syzbot ci
2026-08-31 8:35 ` Baoquan He
2026-08-31 17:54 ` [PATCH 00/16] " Kairui Song
2026-09-01 11:03 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-02 14:10 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-04 9:42 ` Baoquan He
2026-09-02 14:33 ` Nhat Pham
2026-09-03 7:35 ` Youngjun Park
2026-09-04 3:33 ` Baoquan He
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