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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 diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5cd0bd903f54 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +zram: Compressed RAM based block devices +---------------------------------------- + +* Introduction + +The zram module creates RAM based block devices named /dev/zram<id> +(<id> = 0, 1, ...). Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored +in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides +good amounts of memory savings. Some of the usecases include /tmp storage, +use as swap disks, various caches under /var and maybe many more :) + +Statistics for individual zram devices are exported through sysfs nodes at +/sys/block/zram<id>/ + +* Usage + +Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram. + +1) Load Module: + modprobe zram num_devices=4 + This creates 4 devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3} + (num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1) + +2) Set max number of compression streams + Compression backend may use up to max_comp_streams compression streams, + thus allowing up to max_comp_streams concurrent compression operations. + By default, compression backend uses single compression stream. + + Examples: + #show max compression streams number + cat /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams + + #set max compression streams number to 3 + echo 3 > /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams + +Note: +In order to enable compression backend's multi stream support max_comp_streams +must be initially set to desired concurrency level before ZRAM device +initialisation. Once the device initialised as a single stream compression +backend (max_comp_streams equals to 1), you will see error if you try to change +the value of max_comp_streams because single stream compression backend +implemented as a special case by lock overhead issue and does not support +dynamic max_comp_streams. Only multi stream backend supports dynamic +max_comp_streams adjustment. + +3) Select compression algorithm + Using comp_algorithm device attribute one can see available and + currently selected (shown in square brackets) compression algortithms, + change selected compression algorithm (once the device is initialised + there is no way to change compression algorithm). + + Examples: + #show supported compression algorithms + cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm + lzo [lz4] + + #select lzo compression algorithm + echo lzo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm + +4) Set Disksize + Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'. + The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes. + Examples: + # Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize + echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + + # Using mem suffixes + echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + +Note: +There is little point creating a zram of greater than twice the size of memory +since we expect a 2:1 compression ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1% of the +size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful. + +5) Set memory limit: Optional + Set memory limit by writing the value to sysfs node 'mem_limit'. + The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes. + In addition, you could change the value in runtime. + Examples: + # limit /dev/zram0 with 50MB memory + echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + + # Using mem suffixes + echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + + # To disable memory limit + echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + +6) Activate: + mkswap /dev/zram0 + swapon /dev/zram0 + + mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1 + mount /dev/zram1 /tmp + +7) Stats: + Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under + /sys/block/zram<id>/ + disksize + num_reads + num_writes + invalid_io + notify_free + discard + zero_pages + orig_data_size + compr_data_size + mem_used_total + mem_used_max + +8) Deactivate: + swapoff /dev/zram0 + umount /dev/zram1 + +9) Reset: + Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node + echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset + echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset + + This frees all the memory allocated for the given device and + resets the disksize to zero. You must set the disksize again + before reusing the device. + +Nitin Gupta +ngupta@vflare.org |