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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v12 02/11] mm, swap: Add infrastructure for saving page metadata on swap
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    On 03/05/2018 11:29 AM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
    > ADI data is per page data and is held in the spare bits in the RAM. It
    > is loaded into the cache when data is loaded from RAM and flushed out to
    > spare bits in the RAM when data is flushed from cache. Sparc allows one
    > tag for each ADI block size of data and ADI block size is same as
    > cacheline size.

    Which does not square with your earlier assertion "ADI data is per page
    data". It's per-cacheline data. Right?

    > When a page is loaded into RAM from swap space, all of
    > the associated ADI data for the page must also be loaded into the RAM,
    > so it looks like page level data and storing it in page level software
    > data structure makes sense. I am open to other suggestions though.

    Do you have a way to tell that data is not being thrown away? Like if
    the ADI metadata is different for two different cachelines within a
    single page?

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