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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-07 18:39:37 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-07 18:39:37 -0700 |
commit | 68abbe729567cef128b2c2141f2ed2567f3b8372 (patch) | |
tree | aa75c39cc815eee4d7cc8db2988fe10879fccd3e /Documentation/blockdev | |
parent | ba1b7309fc2e909a5828c36a7cd187e5d7df6f53 (diff) | |
parent | 016e92da037e0b43dd5e5848c19b0b9749506963 (diff) | |
download | linux-0-day-master.tar.gz linux-0-day-master.tar.xz |
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- ocfs2 updates
- v9fs updates
- MM
- procfs updates
- lib/ updates
- autofs updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits)
autofs: small cleanup in autofs_getpath()
autofs: clean up includes
autofs: comment on selinux changes needed for module autoload
autofs: update MAINTAINERS entry for autofs
autofs: use autofs instead of autofs4 in documentation
autofs: rename autofs documentation files
autofs: create autofs Kconfig and Makefile
autofs: delete fs/autofs4 source files
autofs: update fs/autofs4/Makefile
autofs: update fs/autofs4/Kconfig
autofs: copy autofs4 to autofs
autofs4: use autofs instead of autofs4 everywhere
autofs4: merge auto_fs.h and auto_fs4.h
fs/binfmt_misc.c: do not allow offset overflow
checkpatch: improve patch recognition
lib/ucs2_string.c: add MODULE_LICENSE()
lib/mpi: headers cleanup
lib/percpu_ida.c: use _irqsave() instead of local_irq_save() + spin_lock
lib/idr.c: remove simple_ida_lock
lib/bitmap.c: micro-optimization for __bitmap_complement()
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 25 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index 257e65714c6a2..875b2b56b87fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace: same_pages the number of same element filled pages written to this disk. No memory is allocated for such pages. pages_compacted the number of pages freed during compaction + huge_pages the number of incompressible pages 9) Deactivate: swapoff /dev/zram0 @@ -242,5 +243,29 @@ to backing storage rather than keeping it in memory. User should set up backing device via /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev before disksize setting. += memory tracking + +With CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING, user can know information of the +zram block. It could be useful to catch cold or incompressible +pages of the process with*pagemap. +If you enable the feature, you could see block state via +/sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram0/block_state". The output is as follows, + + 300 75.033841 .wh + 301 63.806904 s.. + 302 63.806919 ..h + +First column is zram's block index. +Second column is access time since the system was booted +Third column is state of the block. +(s: same page +w: written page to backing store +h: huge page) + +First line of above example says 300th block is accessed at 75.033841sec +and the block's state is huge so it is written back to the backing +storage. It's a debugging feature so anyone shouldn't rely on it to work +properly. + Nitin Gupta ngupta@vflare.org |