Currently, the user has to explicitly write a positive value to
initstate sysfs node before the device can be used. This event
triggers allocation of per-device metadata like memory pool,
table array and so on.
We do not pre-initialize all zram devices since the 'table' array,
mapping disk blocks to compressed chunks, takes considerable amount
of memory (8 bytes per page). So, pre-initializing all devices will
be quite wasteful if only few or none of the devices are actually
used.
This explicit device initialization from user is an odd requirement and
can be easily avoided. We now initialize the device when first write is
done to the device.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Creates per-device sysfs nodes in /sys/block/zram<id>/
Currently following stats are exported:
- disksize
- num_reads
- num_writes
- invalid_io
- zero_pages
- orig_data_size
- compr_data_size
- mem_used_total
By default, disksize is set to 0. So, to start using
a zram device, fist write a disksize value and then
initialize device by writing any positive value to
initstate. For example:
# initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize
echo 50*1024*1024 | bc > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/initstate
When done using a disk, issue reset to free its memory
by writing any positive value to reset node:
echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
This change also obviates the need for 'rzscontrol' utility.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix 49 zram build errors in one swoop. Examples:
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:225: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:226: error: implicit declaration of function 'bio_for_each_segment'
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:226: error: expected ';' before '{' token
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:281: error: implicit declaration of function 'bio_endio'
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:285: error: implicit declaration of function 'bio_io_error'
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:545: error: implicit declaration of function 'set_capacity'
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:548: error: implicit declaration of function 'queue_flag_set_unlocked'
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:548: error: 'QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c:548: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Related changes:
- Included example to show usage as generic
(non-swap) disk with ext4 filesystem.
- Renamed rzscontrol to zramconfig to match
with new device naming.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Related changes:
- Modify revelant Kconfig and Makefile accordingly.
- Change include filenames in code.
- Remove dependency on CONFIG_SWAP in Kconfig as zram usage
is no longer limited to swap disks.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
