mm: Export nr_swap_pages
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540390 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@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: "Goel, Akash" <akash.goel@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1449244734-25733-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukAcked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> (cherry picked from drm-intel-next commit fb0fec50) Signed-off-by: Timo Aaltonen <timo.aaltonen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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