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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram index c1513c756af1..04c9a5980bc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram @@ -98,3 +98,11 @@ Description: The backing_dev file is read-write and set up backing device for zram to write incompressible pages. For using, user should enable CONFIG_ZRAM_WRITEBACK. + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/idle +Date: November 2018 +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> +Description: + idle file is write-only and mark zram slot as idle. + If system has mounted debugfs, user can see which slots + are idle via /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram<id>/block_state 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 |