+
+/*
+ * Find out how many pages are allowed for a single swap device. There
+ * are two limiting factors:
+ * 1) the number of bits for the swap offset in the swp_entry_t type, and
+ * 2) the number of bits in the swap pte, as defined by the different
+ * architectures.
+ *
+ * In order to find the largest possible bit mask, a swap entry with
+ * swap type 0 and swap offset ~0UL is created, encoded to a swap pte,
+ * decoded to a swp_entry_t again, and finally the swap offset is
+ * extracted.
+ *
+ * This will mask all the bits from the initial ~0UL mask that can't
+ * be encoded in either the swp_entry_t or the architecture definition
+ * of a swap pte.
+ */
+unsigned long generic_max_swapfile_size(void)
+{
+ return swp_offset(pte_to_swp_entry(
+ swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry(0, ~0UL)))) + 1;
+}
+
+/* Can be overridden by an architecture for additional checks. */
+__weak unsigned long max_swapfile_size(void)
+{
+ return generic_max_swapfile_size();
+}
+