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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 24 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram index 2775966c2d12..f861cbfab6b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram @@ -127,3 +127,12 @@ Description: efficiency can be calculated using compr_data_size and this statistic. Unit: bytes + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_limit +Date: August 2014 +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> +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 diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index 2db1687a4b10..4331ebf94bf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -74,14 +74,30 @@ There is little point creating a zram of greater than twice the size of memory since we expect a 2:1 compression ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1% of the size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful. -5) Activate: +5) Set memory limit: Optional + Set memory limit by writing the value to sysfs node 'mem_limit'. + The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes. + In addition, you could change the value in runtime. + Examples: + # limit /dev/zram0 with 50MB memory + echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + + # Using mem suffixes + echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + + # To disable memory limit + echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit + +6) Activate: mkswap /dev/zram0 swapon /dev/zram0 mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1 mount /dev/zram1 /tmp -6) Stats: +7) Stats: Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under /sys/block/zram<id>/ disksize @@ -95,11 +111,11 @@ size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful. compr_data_size mem_used_total -7) Deactivate: +8) Deactivate: swapoff /dev/zram0 umount /dev/zram1 -8) Reset: +9) Reset: Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset |