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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram index ec93fe33baa6..0c7f4f91c6b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram @@ -42,15 +42,48 @@ Description: The invalid_io file is read-only and specifies the number of non-page-size-aligned I/O requests issued to this device. +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/failed_reads +Date: February 2014 +Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> +Description: + The failed_reads file is read-only and specifies the number of + failed reads happened on this device. + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/failed_writes +Date: February 2014 +Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> +Description: + The failed_writes file is read-only and specifies the number of + failed writes happened on this device. + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/max_comp_streams +Date: February 2014 +Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> +Description: + The max_comp_streams file is read-write and specifies the + number of backend's zcomp_strm compression streams (number of + concurrent compress operations). + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/comp_algorithm +Date: February 2014 +Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> +Description: + The comp_algorithm file is read-write and lets to show + available and selected compression algorithms, change + compression algorithm selection. + What: /sys/block/zram<id>/notify_free Date: August 2010 Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Description: - The notify_free file is read-only and specifies the number of - swap slot free notifications received by this device. These - notifications are send to a swap block device when a swap slot - is freed. This statistic is applicable only when this disk is - being used as a swap disk. + The notify_free file is read-only. Depending on device usage + scenario it may account a) the number of pages freed because + of swap slot free notifications or b) the number of pages freed + because of REQ_DISCARD requests sent by bio. The former ones + are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot is freed, which + implies that this disk is being used as a swap disk. The latter + ones are sent by filesystem mounted with discard option, + whenever some data blocks are getting discarded. What: /sys/block/zram<id>/discard Date: August 2010 @@ -97,3 +130,22 @@ Description: efficiency can be calculated using compr_data_size and this statistic. Unit: bytes + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_used_max +Date: August 2014 +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> +Description: + The mem_used_max file is read/write and specifies the amount + of maximum memory zram have consumed to store compressed data. + For resetting the value, you should write "0". Otherwise, + you could see -EINVAL. + Unit: bytes + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_limit +Date: August 2014 +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> +Description: + The mem_limit file is read/write and specifies the maximum + amount of memory ZRAM can use to store the compressed data. The + limit could be changed in run time and "0" means disable the + limit. No limit is the initial state. Unit: bytes |