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authorKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>2012-06-14 14:20:18 +0300
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>2012-06-14 14:44:49 +0300
commitd987dd137bac8dca9b0015763d3106f48bb8a596 (patch)
treeef887505b3c904c548d58ec9bb6f4970a0877042 /include/linux/compaction.h
parentath6kl: fix fw capability parsing (diff)
parentMerge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless (diff)
Merge remote branch 'wireless-next/master' into ath6kl-next
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compaction.h')
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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index 51a90b7f2d60..e988037abd2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_COMPACTION_H
#define _LINUX_COMPACTION_H
+#include <linux/node.h>
+
/* Return values for compact_zone() and try_to_compact_pages() */
/* compaction didn't start as it was not possible or direct reclaim was more suitable */
#define COMPACT_SKIPPED 0
@@ -11,6 +13,23 @@
/* The full zone was compacted */
#define COMPACT_COMPLETE 3
+/*
+ * compaction supports three modes
+ *
+ * COMPACT_ASYNC_MOVABLE uses asynchronous migration and only scans
+ * MIGRATE_MOVABLE pageblocks as migration sources and targets.
+ * COMPACT_ASYNC_UNMOVABLE uses asynchronous migration and only scans
+ * MIGRATE_MOVABLE pageblocks as migration sources.
+ * MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblocks are scanned as potential migration
+ * targets and convers them to MIGRATE_MOVABLE if possible
+ * COMPACT_SYNC uses synchronous migration and scans all pageblocks
+ */
+enum compact_mode {
+ COMPACT_ASYNC_MOVABLE,
+ COMPACT_ASYNC_UNMOVABLE,
+ COMPACT_SYNC,
+};
+
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
extern int sysctl_compact_memory;
extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,