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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2018-12-28 11:36:44 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 23:11:49 +0300
commite82592c4fd7eafe8dec12a70436e93e3afb28556 (patch)
tree89d470bbfcb0f97e7f3ed3f1516d038403992078 /Documentation/blockdev
parent7e5292831b346bacb05558ca385cae366187314c (diff)
downloadlinux-e82592c4fd7eafe8dec12a70436e93e3afb28556.tar.xz
zram: introduce ZRAM_IDLE flag
To support idle page writeback with upcoming patches, this patch introduces a new ZRAM_IDLE flag. Userspace can mark zram slots as "idle" via "echo all > /sys/block/zramX/idle" which marks every allocated zram slot as ZRAM_IDLE. User could see it by /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram0/block_state. 300 75.033841 ...i 301 63.806904 s..i 302 63.806919 ..hi Once there is IO for the slot, the mark will be disappeared. 300 75.033841 ... 301 63.806904 s..i 302 63.806919 ..hi Therefore, 300th block is idle zpage. With this feature, user can how many zram has idle pages which are waste of memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127055429.251614-5-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 3c1b5ab54bc0..f3bcd716d8a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ comp_algorithm RW show and change the compression algorithm
compact WO trigger memory compaction
debug_stat RO this file is used for zram debugging purposes
backing_dev RW set up backend storage for zram to write out
+idle WO mark allocated slot as idle
User space is advised to use the following files to read the device statistics.
@@ -251,16 +252,17 @@ pages of the process with*pagemap.
If you enable the feature, you could see block state via
/sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram0/block_state". The output is as follows,
- 300 75.033841 .wh
- 301 63.806904 s..
- 302 63.806919 ..h
+ 300 75.033841 .wh.
+ 301 63.806904 s...
+ 302 63.806919 ..hi
First column is zram's block index.
Second column is access time since the system was booted
Third column is state of the block.
(s: same page
w: written page to backing store
-h: huge page)
+h: huge page
+i: idle page)
First line of above example says 300th block is accessed at 75.033841sec
and the block's state is huge so it is written back to the backing