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Today it's only possible to write back as a page, idle, or huge. A user
might want to writeback pages which are huge and idle first as these idle
pages do not require decompression and make a good first pass for
writeback.
Idle writeback specifically has the advantage that a refault is unlikely
given that the page has been swapped for some amount of time without being
refaulted.
Huge writeback has the advantage that you're guaranteed to get the maximum
benefit from a single page writeback, that is, you're reclaiming one full
page of memory. Pages which are compressed in zram being written back
result in some benefit which is always less than a page size because of
the fact that it was compressed.
The primary use of this is for minimizing refaults in situations where the
device has to be sensitive to storage endurance. On ChromeOS we have
devices with slow eMMC and repeated writes and refaults can negatively
affect performance and endurance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322215821.1196994-1-bgeffon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This fixes some simple grammar errors in the documentation for zram,
specifically errors in the optional feature section of the zram
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Dye <mrtops03@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207235442.95090-1-mrtops03@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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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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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few random little subsystems
- almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
get merged up.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
mm: fix kernel-doc markups
zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
zram: support page writeback
mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
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Currently, zram supports the stat via /sys/block/zram/mm_stat to represent
how many of incompressible pages are stored at the moment but it couldn't
show how many times incompressible pages were wrote down since zram set
up. It's also good indication to see how zram is effective in the system.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201130201907.1284910-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is demand to writeback specific process pages to backing store
instead of all idles pages in the system due to storage wear out concerns
and to launching latency of apps which are most of the time idle but are
critical for resume latency.
This patch extends the writeback knob to support a specific page
writeback.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020190506.3758660-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixed twelve typos in cppc_sysfs.rst, binderfs.rst, paride.rst,
zram.rst, bug-hunting.rst, introduction.rst, usage.rst, dm-crypt.rst
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204070235.GA48631@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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orig_data_size counted the same_pages by commit 51f9f82c855d ("zram:
count same page write as page_stored"), so let's fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <zbestahu@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200206111031.9524-1-zbestahu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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sysfs node for huge page writeback is writeback rather than write.
Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120102949.12132-1-zbestahu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix various items in zram.rst:
- typos/spellos
- punctuation
- grammar
- shell syntax
- indentation
- sysfs file names
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77000e12-677a-62f6-9f78-343be5bd6630@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Brian Geffon
Ethan Dye
Linus Torvalds
Minchan Kim
Andrew Klychkov
Yue Hu
Yue Hu
Randy Dunlap
Mauro Carvalho Chehab