linux/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev, branch v6.2

zram: add incompressible flag to read_block_state()

2022-11-30T23:58:53Z

Add a new flag to zram block state that shows if the page is incompressible: that none of the algorithm (including secondary ones) could compress it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-14-senozhatsky@chromium.org Suggested-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Alexey Romanov Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

zram: add incompressible writeback

2022-11-30T23:58:53Z

Add support for incompressible pages writeback: echo incompressible > /sys/block/zramX/writeback Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-13-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Alexey Romanov Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

documentation: add zram recompression documentation

2022-11-30T23:58:52Z

Document user-space visible device attributes that are enabled by ZRAM_MULTI_COMP. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-12-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Alexey Romanov Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

zram: add recompress flag to read_block_state()

2022-11-30T23:58:51Z

Add a new flag to zram block state that shows if the page was recompressed (using alternative compression algorithm). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-6-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Alexey Romanov Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'docs-5.19-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2022-06-02T22:36:06Z

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes and the addition of an SVG tux logo which, I'm assured, we're going to want" * tag 'docs-5.19-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: documentation: Format button_dev as a pointer. docs: add SVG version of the Linux logo docs: move Linux logo into a new `images` folder docs: blockdev: change title to match section content docs/conf.py: Cope with removal of language=None in Sphinx 5.0.0

docs: blockdev: change title to match section content

2022-06-01T15:30:53Z

This index.rst was added in commit 39443104c7d3 docs: blockdev: convert to ReST It appears that the title from the RapidIO index page was copied. This title does not match the content of this directory. Change it to match. Signed-off-by: Joel Colledge Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220530142849.717-1-joel.colledge@linbit.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

zram: add a huge_idle writeback mode

2022-04-29T21:36:59Z

Today it's only possible to write back as a page, idle, or huge. A user might want to writeback pages which are huge and idle first as these idle pages do not require decompression and make a good first pass for writeback. Idle writeback specifically has the advantage that a refault is unlikely given that the page has been swapped for some amount of time without being refaulted. Huge writeback has the advantage that you're guaranteed to get the maximum benefit from a single page writeback, that is, you're reclaiming one full page of memory. Pages which are compressed in zram being written back result in some benefit which is always less than a page size because of the fact that it was compressed. The primary use of this is for minimizing refaults in situations where the device has to be sensitive to storage endurance. On ChromeOS we have devices with slow eMMC and repeated writes and refaults can negatively affect performance and endurance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322215821.1196994-1-bgeffon@google.com Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

docs: Fix wording in optional zram feature docs

2022-02-15T23:32:27Z

This fixes some simple grammar errors in the documentation for zram, specifically errors in the optional feature section of the zram documentation. Signed-off-by: Ethan Dye Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207235442.95090-1-mrtops03@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: admin-guide/blockdev: Remove digraph of node-states

2021-11-29T21:39:43Z

While node-states-8.dot has two digraphs, the dot(1) command can not properly handle multiple graphs in a DOT file and the kernel-doc page at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/blockdev/drbd/figures.html fails to render the graphs. It turned out that the digraph of node_states can be removed. Quote from Joel's reflection: On reflection, the digraph node_states can be removed entirely. It is too basic to contain any useful information. In addition it references "ioctl_set_state". The ioctl configuration interface for DRBD has long been removed. In fact, it was never in the upstream version of DRBD. Remove node_states and rename the DOT file peer_states-8.dot. Suggested-by: Joel Colledge Acked-by: Joel Colledge Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Cc: Philipp Reisner Cc: Lars Ellenberg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7df04f45-8746-e666-1a9d-a998f1ab1f91@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

zram: introduce an aged idle interface

2021-11-06T20:30:43Z

This change introduces an aged idle interface to the existing idle sysfs file for zram. When CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING is enabled the idle file now also accepts an integer argument. This integer is the age (in seconds) of pages to mark as idle. The idle file still supports 'all' as it always has. This new approach allows for much more control over which pages get marked as idle. [bgeffon@google.com: use IS_ENABLED and cleanup comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210924161128.1508015-1-bgeffon@google.com [bgeffon@google.com: Sergey's cleanup suggestions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210929143056.13067-1-bgeffon@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923130115.1344361-1-bgeffon@google.com Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon Acked-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Cc: Jesse Barnes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds