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authorSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>2015-04-15 16:16:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-15 16:35:21 -0700
commit8f7d282c717acaae25245c61b6b60e8995ec4ef4 (patch)
tree619cd0a9f363bfccf911f0fe2fe892a5961e9f9b /Documentation
parent4f2109f60881585dc04fa0b5657a60556576625c (diff)
zram: deprecate zram attrs sysfs nodes
Add Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram file and list obsolete and deprecated attributes there. The patch also adds additional information to zram documentation and describes the basic strategy: - the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in 4.11) - deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in 4.11) Users will be additionally notified about deprecated attr usage by pr_warn_once() (added to every deprecated attr _show()), as suggested by Minchan Kim. User space is advised to use zram<id>/stat, zram<id>/io_stat and zram<id>/mm_stat files. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt16
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..720ea92cfb2e
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+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/num_reads
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The num_reads file is read-only and specifies the number of
+ reads (failed or successful) done on this device.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/num_writes
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The num_writes file is read-only and specifies the number of
+ writes (failed or successful) done on this device.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/invalid_io
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The invalid_io file is read-only and specifies the number of
+ non-page-size-aligned I/O requests issued to this device.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/io_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/failed_reads
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The failed_reads file is read-only and specifies the number of
+ failed reads happened on this device.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/io_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/failed_writes
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The failed_writes file is read-only and specifies the number of
+ failed writes happened on this device.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/io_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/notify_free
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The notify_free file is read-only. Depending on device usage
+ scenario it may account a) the number of pages freed because
+ of swap slot free notifications or b) the number of pages freed
+ because of REQ_DISCARD requests sent by bio. The former ones
+ are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot is freed, which
+ implies that this disk is being used as a swap disk. The latter
+ ones are sent by filesystem mounted with discard option,
+ whenever some data blocks are getting discarded.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/io_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/zero_pages
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The zero_pages file is read-only and specifies number of zero
+ filled pages written to this disk. No memory is allocated for
+ such pages.
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/mm_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/orig_data_size
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The orig_data_size file is read-only and specifies uncompressed
+ size of data stored in this disk. This excludes zero-filled
+ pages (zero_pages) since no memory is allocated for them.
+ Unit: bytes
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/mm_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/compr_data_size
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The compr_data_size file is read-only and specifies compressed
+ size of data stored in this disk. So, compression ratio can be
+ calculated using orig_data_size and this statistic.
+ Unit: bytes
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/mm_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_used_total
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The mem_used_total file is read-only and specifies the amount
+ of memory, including allocator fragmentation and metadata
+ overhead, allocated for this disk. So, allocator space
+ efficiency can be calculated using compr_data_size and this
+ statistic.
+ Unit: bytes
+ Now accessible via zram<id>/mm_stat node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_used_max
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The mem_used_max file is read/write and specifies the amount
+ of maximum memory zram have consumed to store compressed data.
+ For resetting the value, you should write "0". Otherwise,
+ you could see -EINVAL.
+ Unit: bytes
+ Downgraded to write-only node: so it's possible to set new
+ value only; its current value is stored in zram<id>/mm_stat
+ node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_limit
+Date: August 2015
+Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ The mem_limit file is read/write and specifies the maximum
+ amount of memory ZRAM can use to store the compressed data.
+ The limit could be changed in run time and "0" means disable
+ the limit. No limit is the initial state. Unit: bytes
+ Downgraded to write-only node: so it's possible to set new
+ value only; its current value is stored in zram<id>/mm_stat
+ node.
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 7920f4026d36..48a183e29988 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -128,6 +128,22 @@ mem_limit RW the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use to store
num_migrated RO the number of objects migrated migrated by compaction
+WARNING
+=======
+per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated.
+The basic strategy is:
+-- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
+-- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
+
+The list of deprecated attributes can be found here:
+Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
+
+Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs node
+(e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files (zram<id>/stat
+or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered to be deprecated.
+
+User space is advised to use the following files to read the device statistics.
+
File /sys/block/zram<id>/stat
Represents block layer statistics. Read Documentation/block/stat.txt for