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zram: introduce an aged idle interface

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This change introduces an aged idle interface to the existing idle sysfs
file for zram.

When CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING is enabled the idle file now also
accepts an integer argument.  This integer is the age (in seconds) of
pages to mark as idle.  The idle file still supports 'all' as it always
has.  This new approach allows for much more control over which pages
get marked as idle.

[bgeffon@google.com: use IS_ENABLED and cleanup comment]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210924161128.1508015-1-bgeffon@google.com
[bgeffon@google.com: Sergey's cleanup suggestions]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210929143056.13067-1-bgeffon@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923130115.1344361-1-bgeffon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Brian Geffon
2021-11-05 13:45:15 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a88e03cf3d
commit 755804d169
2 changed files with 54 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -328,6 +328,14 @@ as idle::
From now on, any pages on zram are idle pages. The idle mark
will be removed until someone requests access of the block.
IOW, unless there is access request, those pages are still idle pages.
Additionally, when CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING is enabled pages can be
marked as idle based on how long (in seconds) it's been since they were
last accessed::
echo 86400 > /sys/block/zramX/idle
In this example all pages which haven't been accessed in more than 86400
seconds (one day) will be marked idle.
Admin can request writeback of those idle pages at right timing via::