[PATCH] handle radix_tree_node allocation failures
This patch uses the radix_tree_preload() API in add_to_page_cache(). A new gfp_mask argument is added to add_to_page_cache(), which is then passed on to radix_tree_preload(). It's pretty simple. In the case of adding pages to swapcache we're still using GFP_ATOMIC, so these addition attempts can still fail. That's OK, because the error is handled and, unlike file pages, it will not cause user applicaton failures. This codepath (radix-tree node exhaustion on swapout) was well tested in the days when the swapper_space radix tree was fragmented all over the place due to unfortunate swp_entry bit layout.
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