xvmalloc can't handle PAGE_SIZE page so that zram have to
handle it specially but zsmalloc can do it so let's remove
unnecessary special handling code.
Quote from Nitin
"I think page vs handle distinction was added since xvmalloc could not
handle full page allocation. Now that zsmalloc allows full page
allocation, we can just use it for both cases. This would also allow
removing the ZRAM_UNCOMPRESSED flag. The only downside will be slightly
slower code path for full page allocation but this event is anyways
supposed to be rare, so should be fine."
1. This patch reduces code very much.
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 104 +++++--------------------------------
drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h | 17 +-----
drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c | 6 +--
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)
2. change pages_expand with bad_compress so it can count
bad compression(above 75%) ratio.
3. remove zobj_header which is for back-reference for defragmentation
because firstly, it's not used at the moment and zsmalloc can't handle
bigger size than PAGE_SIZE so zram can't do it any more without redesign.
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
zram accepts number of devices to be created
as a module parameter. This was renamed from
num_devices to zram_num_devices (without updating
the documentation!) since num_devices was declared
as a non-static global variable, polluting the global
namespace. Now, we declare it as a static variable
and revert back the name change.
The documentation (zram.txt) already mentions
num_devices as the module parameter name.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
As reported by checkpatch.pl strict_strtoX is obsolet and should be
replaced by kstrtoX.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Datsevich <srgdts@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Meier <bjoernmeier@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently init_lock only prevents concurrent execution of zram_init_device()
and zram_reset_device() but not zram_make_request() nor sysfs store functions.
This patch changes init_lock into a rw_semaphore. A write lock is taken by
init, reset and store functions, a read lock is taken by zram_make_request().
Also, avoids to release the lock before calling __zram_reset_device() for
cleaning after a failed init, thus preventing any concurrent task to see an
inconsistent state of zram.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The global variable "num_devices" is too general to be
global. This patch switches the name to be "zram_num_devices".
Signed-off-by: Noah Watkins <noahwatkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The global variable "devices" is too general to be global.
This patch switches the name to be "zram_devices".
Signed-off-by: Noah Watkins <noahwatkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently disksize_store() round down the disk size provided by user.
This is probably not what one would expect, so round up instead.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We can not configure zram device without sysfs anyway, so make zram
depends on it.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
They should be writable by root, not readable.
Doh, stupid me with the wrong flags.
Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
They should not be writable by any user
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
Sergey Senozhatsky