On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:09:52AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 03:58:53PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > > Some modules, like i915.ko, use swappable objects and may try to swap > > them out under memory pressure (via the shrinker). Before doing so, they > > want to check using get_nr_swap_pages() to see if any swap space is > > available as otherwise they will waste time purging the object from the > > device without recovering any memory for the system. This requires the > > nr_swap_pages counter to be exported to the modules. > > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx > > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Ack for merging this through drm-intel trees for 4.5? I'm a bit unclear who's ack I need for that for linux-mm topics ... Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>