From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v4 07/21] mm: create scaffolds for the new virtual swap implementation
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:29:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318222953.441758-8-nphamcs@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260318222953.441758-1-nphamcs@gmail.com>
In prepration for the implementation of swap virtualization, add new
scaffolds for the new code: a new mm/vswap.c source file, which
currently only holds the logic to set up the (for now, empty) vswap
debugfs directory. Hook this up in the swap setup step in
mm/swap_state.c, and set up vswap compilation in the Makefile.
Other than the debugfs directory, no behavioral change intended.
Finally, make Johannes a swap reviewer, given that he has contributed
majorly to the developments of virtual swap.
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
---
MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
include/linux/swap.h | 3 +++
mm/Makefile | 2 +-
mm/swap_state.c | 6 ++++++
mm/vswap.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 mm/vswap.c
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e087673237636..b21038b160a07 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16728,6 +16728,7 @@ R: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
R: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
R: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
R: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
+R: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
L: linux-mm@kvack.org
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/mm/swap-table.rst
@@ -16740,6 +16741,7 @@ F: mm/swap.h
F: mm/swap_table.h
F: mm/swap_state.c
F: mm/swapfile.c
+F: mm/vswap.c
MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP (TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGE)
M: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 918b47da55f44..df0771903a952 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ extern void __meminit kswapd_stop(int nid);
#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
+/* Virtual swap space API (mm/vswap.c) */
+int vswap_init(void);
+
/* Lifecycle swap API (mm/swapfile.c) */
int folio_alloc_swap(struct folio *folio);
bool folio_free_swap(struct folio *folio);
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 2d0570a16e5be..67fa4586e7e18 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_MMU
obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS) += madvise.o
endif
-obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP) += page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP) += page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o vswap.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ZSWAP) += zswap.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA) += dmapool.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS) += hugetlb.o hugetlb_sysfs.o hugetlb_sysctl.o
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index e2e9f55bea3bb..29ec666be4204 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -882,6 +882,12 @@ static int __init swap_init(void)
int err;
struct kobject *swap_kobj;
+ err = vswap_init();
+ if (err) {
+ pr_err("failed to initialize virtual swap space\n");
+ return err;
+ }
+
swap_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("swap", mm_kobj);
if (!swap_kobj) {
pr_err("failed to create swap kobject\n");
diff --git a/mm/vswap.c b/mm/vswap.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e68234f053fc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/vswap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Virtual swap space
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 Meta Platforms, Inc., Nhat Pham
+ */
+#include <linux/swap.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+
+static struct dentry *vswap_debugfs_root;
+
+static int vswap_debug_fs_init(void)
+{
+ if (!debugfs_initialized())
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ vswap_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("vswap", NULL);
+ return 0;
+}
+#else
+static int vswap_debug_fs_init(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
+int vswap_init(void)
+{
+ if (vswap_debug_fs_init())
+ pr_warn("Failed to initialize vswap debugfs\n");
+
+ return 0;
+}
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-18 22:29 [PATCH v4 00/21] Virtual Swap Space Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 01/21] mm/swap: decouple swap cache from physical swap infrastructure Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 02/21] swap: rearrange the swap header file Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 03/21] mm: swap: add an abstract API for locking out swapoff Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 04/21] zswap: add new helpers for zswap entry operations Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 05/21] mm/swap: add a new function to check if a swap entry is in swap cached Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 06/21] mm: swap: add a separate type for physical swap slots Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` Nhat Pham [this message]
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 08/21] zswap: prepare zswap for swap virtualization Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 09/21] mm: swap: allocate a virtual swap slot for each swapped out page Nhat Pham
2026-03-19 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-19 18:37 ` Nhat Pham
2026-03-19 19:26 ` Nhat Pham
2026-03-19 21:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-19 23:27 ` Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 10/21] swap: move swap cache to virtual swap descriptor Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 11/21] zswap: move zswap entry management to the " Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 12/21] swap: implement the swap_cgroup API using virtual swap Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 13/21] swap: manage swap entry lifecycle at the virtual swap layer Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 14/21] mm: swap: decouple virtual swap slot from backing store Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 15/21] zswap: do not start zswap shrinker if there is no physical swap slots Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 16/21] swap: do not unnecesarily pin readahead swap entries Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 17/21] swapfile: remove zeromap bitmap Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 18/21] memcg: swap: only charge physical swap slots Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] swap: simplify swapoff using virtual swap Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 20/21] swapfile: replace the swap map with bitmaps Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 22:29 ` [PATCH v4 21/21] vswap: batch contiguous vswap free calls Nhat Pham
2026-03-18 23:12 ` [PATCH v4 00/21] Virtual Swap Space Nhat Pham
2026-03-19 21:36 ` [syzbot ci] " syzbot ci
2026-03-19 23:26 ` Nhat Pham
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