mtd: Add mtdswap block driver

Add a driver for allowing an mtd device to be used as a block device for
swapping. The block device is volatile, and the mapping of swapped pages
is not stored on flash.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

drivers/mtd/Kconfig

@@ -325,6 +325,24 @@ config MTD_OOPS
 	  To use, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel command line,
 	  where x is the MTD device number to use.
 
+config MTD_SWAP
+	tristate "Swap on MTD device support"
+	depends on MTD && SWAP
+	select MTD_BLKDEVS
+	help
+	  Provides volatile block device driver on top of mtd partition
+          suitable for swapping.  The mapping of written blocks is not saved.
+	  The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the
+	  OOB.
+
+config MTD_SWAP_STRICT
+       bool "Strict erase error handling"
+       depends on MTD_SWAP
+       help
+	 Enables strict tolerance on failed erasures, marking erase blocks bad
+	 right after the first failed operation. With non-strict mode the
+	 erase operation is retried.
+
 source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"

drivers/mtd/Makefile

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RFD_FTL)		+= rfd_ftl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SSFDC)		+= ssfdc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SM_FTL)		+= sm_ftl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_OOPS)		+= mtdoops.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_SWAP)		+= mtdswap.o
 
 nftl-objs		:= nftlcore.o nftlmount.o
 inftl-objs		:= inftlcore.o inftlmount.o