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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index 0535ae1f73e5..1c0c08d9206b 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -161,42 +161,14 @@ Name access description disksize RW show and set the device's disk size initstate RO shows the initialization state of the device reset WO trigger device reset -num_reads RO the number of reads -failed_reads RO the number of failed reads -num_write RO the number of writes -failed_writes RO the number of failed writes -invalid_io RO the number of non-page-size-aligned I/O requests +mem_used_max WO reset the `mem_used_max' counter (see later) +mem_limit WO specifies the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use + to store the compressed data max_comp_streams RW the number of possible concurrent compress operations comp_algorithm RW show and change the compression algorithm -notify_free RO the number of notifications to free pages (either - slot free notifications or REQ_DISCARD requests) -zero_pages RO the number of zero filled pages written to this disk -orig_data_size RO uncompressed size of data stored in this disk -compr_data_size RO compressed size of data stored in this disk -mem_used_total RO the amount of memory allocated for this disk -mem_used_max RW the maximum amount of memory zram have consumed to - store the data (to reset this counter to the actual - current value, write 1 to this attribute) -mem_limit RW the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use to store - the compressed data -pages_compacted RO the number of pages freed during compaction - (available only via zram<id>/mm_stat node) compact WO trigger memory compaction debug_stat RO this file is used for zram debugging purposes -WARNING -======= -per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated. -The basic strategy is: --- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11) --- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11) - -The list of deprecated attributes can be found here: -Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram - -Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs node -(e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files (zram<id>/stat -or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered to be deprecated. User space is advised to use the following files to read the device statistics. @@ -211,22 +183,40 @@ The stat file represents device's I/O statistics not accounted by block layer and, thus, not available in zram<id>/stat file. It consists of a single line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace: - failed_reads - failed_writes - invalid_io - notify_free + failed_reads the number of failed reads + failed_writes the number of failed writes + invalid_io the number of non-page-size-aligned I/O requests + notify_free 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. File /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat The stat file represents device's mm statistics. It consists of a single line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace: - orig_data_size - compr_data_size - mem_used_total - mem_limit - mem_used_max - zero_pages - num_migrated + orig_data_size uncompressed size of data stored in this disk. + This excludes zero-filled pages (zero_pages) since no + memory is allocated for them. + Unit: bytes + compr_data_size compressed size of data stored in this disk + mem_used_total the amount of memory allocated for this disk. This + includes allocator fragmentation and metadata overhead, + allocated for this disk. So, allocator space efficiency + can be calculated using compr_data_size and this statistic. + Unit: bytes + mem_limit the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use to store + the compressed data + mem_used_max the maximum amount of memory zram have consumed to + store the data + zero_pages the number of zero filled pages written to this disk. + No memory is allocated for such pages. + pages_compacted the number of pages freed during compaction 9) Deactivate: swapoff /dev/zram0 |