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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 |