From 9ada9da9573f3460b156b7755c093e30b258eacb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:29:53 -0700 Subject: zram: zram memory size limitation Since zram has no control feature to limit memory usage, it makes hard to manage system memrory. This patch adds new knob "mem_limit" via sysfs to set up the a limit so that zram could fail allocation once it reaches the limit. In addition, user could change the limit in runtime so that he could manage the memory more dynamically. Initial state is no limit so it doesn't break old behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Sergey] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Cc: Cc: Luigi Semenzato Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: David Horner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index 0595c3f56ccf..82c6a41116db 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -74,14 +74,30 @@ 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) Activate: +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 -6) Stats: +7) Stats: Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under /sys/block/zram/ disksize @@ -96,11 +112,11 @@ size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful. compr_data_size mem_used_total -7) Deactivate: +8) Deactivate: swapoff /dev/zram0 umount /dev/zram1 -8) Reset: +9) Reset: Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset -- cgit v1.2.3