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Move IDLE pages tracking into a separate chapter because there are
multiple features that use (or depend on) it either in built-in variant
("mark all") or in extended variant (ac-time tracking).
In addition, recompression doesn't require memory tracking to be enabled
in order to be able to perform idle recompression.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416042833.3858827-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Shin Kawamura <kawasin@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The writeback interface supports a page_index=N parameter which performs
writeback of the given page. Since we rarely need to writeback just one
single page, the typical use case involves a number of writeback calls,
each performing writeback of one page:
echo page_index=100 > zram0/writeback
...
echo page_index=200 > zram0/writeback
echo page_index=500 > zram0/writeback
...
echo page_index=700 > zram0/writeback
One obvious downside of this is that it increases the number of syscalls.
Less obvious, but a significantly more important downside, is that when
given only one page to post-process zram cannot perform an optimal target
selection. This becomes a critical limitation when writeback_limit is
enabled, because under writeback_limit we want to guarantee the highest
memory savings hence we first need to writeback pages that release the
highest amount of zsmalloc pool memory.
This patch adds page_indexes=LOW-HIGH parameter to the writeback
interface:
echo page_indexes=100-200 page_indexes=500-700 > zram0/writeback
This gives zram a chance to apply an optimal target selection strategy on
each iteration of the writeback loop.
We also now permit multiple page_index parameters per call (previously
zram would recognize only one page_index) and a mix or single pages and
page ranges:
echo page_index=42 page_index=99 page_indexes=100-200 \
page_indexes=500-700 > zram0/writeback
Apart from that the patch also unifies parameters passing and resembles
other "modern" zram device attributes (e.g. recompression), while the old
interface used a mixed scheme: values-less parameters for mode and a
key=value format for page_index. We still support the "old" value-less
format for compatibility reasons.
[senozhatsky@chromium.org: simplify parse_page_index() range checks, per Brian]
nk: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250404015327.2427684-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
[sozhatsky@chromium.org: fix uninitialized variable in zram_writeback_slots(), per Dan]
nk: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250409112611.1154282-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250327015818.4148660-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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max_comp_streams device attribute has been defunct since May 2016 when
zram switched to per-CPU compression streams, remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303022425.285971-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixes a typo in the ZRAM documentation where 'dictioary' was
misspelled. Corrected it to 'dictionary' in the example usage
of 'algorithm_params'.
Signed-off-by: Sarveshwaar SS <sarvesh20123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125165122.17521-1-sarvesh20123@gmail.com
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Both recompress and writeback soon will unlock slots during processing,
which makes things too complex wrt possible race-conditions. We still
want to clear PP_SLOT in slot_free, because this is how we figure out that
slot that was selected for post-processing has been released under us and
when we start post-processing we check if slot still has PP_SLOT set. At
the same time, theoretically, we can have something like this:
CPU0 CPU1
recompress
scan slots
set PP_SLOT
unlock slot
slot_free
clear PP_SLOT
allocate PP_SLOT
writeback
scan slots
set PP_SLOT
unlock slot
select PP-slot
test PP_SLOT
So recompress will not detect that slot has been re-used and re-selected
for concurrent writeback post-processing.
Make sure that we only permit on post-processing operation at a time. So
now recompress and writeback post-processing don't race against each
other, we only need to handle slot re-use (slot_free and write), which is
handled individually by each pp operation.
Having recompress and writeback competing for the same slots is not
exactly good anyway (can't imagine anyone doing that).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240917021020.883356-3-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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recompress device attribute supports alg=NAME parameter so that we can
specify only one particular algorithm we want to perform recompression
with. However, with algo params we now can have several exactly same
secondary algorithms but each with its own params tuning (e.g. priority 1
configured to use more aggressive level, and priority 2 configured to use
a pre-trained dictionary). Support priority=NUM parameter so that we can
correctly determine which secondary algorithm we want to use.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-25-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Document brief description of compression algorithms' parameters:
compression level and pre-trained dictionary.
[senozhatsky@chromium.org: trivial fixup]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240903063722.1603592-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-24-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This attribute is used to setup compression algorithms' parameters, so we
can tweak algorithms' characteristics. At this point only 'level' is
supported (to be extended in the future).
Each call sets up parameters for one particular algorithm, which should be
specified either by the algorithm's priority or algo name. This is
expected to be called after corresponding algorithm is selected via
comp_algorithm or recomp_algorithm.
echo "priority=0 level=1" > /sys/block/zram0/algorithm_params
or
echo "algo=zstd level=1" > /sys/block/zram0/algorithm_params
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-16-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Moving to custom backends implementation gives us ability to have our own
minimalistic and extendable API, and algorithms tunings becomes possible.
The list of compression backends is empty at this point, we will add
backends in the followup patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Introduce "max_pages" param to recompress device attribute which sets an
upper limit on the number of entries (pages) zram attempts to recompress
(in this particular recompression call). S/W recompression can be quite
expensive so limiting the number of pages recompress touches can be quite
helpful.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329094050.2815699-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING enables two features:
- per-entry ac-time tracking
- debugfs interface
The latter one is the reason why memory-tracking depends on DEBUG_FS,
while the former one is used far beyond debugging these days. Namely
ac-time is used for fine grained writeback of idle entries (pages).
Move ac-time tracking under its own config option so that it can be
enabled (along with writeback) on systems without DEBUG_FS.
[senozhatsky@chromium.org: ifdef fixup, per Dmytro]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231117013543.540280-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115024223.4133148-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <mrtops03@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207235442.95090-1-mrtops03@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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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 <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few random little subsystems
- almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
get merged up.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
mm: fix kernel-doc markups
zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
zram: support page writeback
mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
...
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Currently, zram supports the stat via /sys/block/zram/mm_stat to represent
how many of incompressible pages are stored at the moment but it couldn't
show how many times incompressible pages were wrote down since zram set
up. It's also good indication to see how zram is effective in the system.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201130201907.1284910-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is demand to writeback specific process pages to backing store
instead of all idles pages in the system due to storage wear out concerns
and to launching latency of apps which are most of the time idle but are
critical for resume latency.
This patch extends the writeback knob to support a specific page
writeback.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020190506.3758660-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixed twelve typos in cppc_sysfs.rst, binderfs.rst, paride.rst,
zram.rst, bug-hunting.rst, introduction.rst, usage.rst, dm-crypt.rst
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204070235.GA48631@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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orig_data_size counted the same_pages by commit 51f9f82c855d ("zram:
count same page write as page_stored"), so let's fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <zbestahu@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200206111031.9524-1-zbestahu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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sysfs node for huge page writeback is writeback rather than write.
Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120102949.12132-1-zbestahu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix various items in zram.rst:
- typos/spellos
- punctuation
- grammar
- shell syntax
- indentation
- sysfs file names
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77000e12-677a-62f6-9f78-343be5bd6630@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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