linux/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
Sergey Senozhatsky 623e47fc64 zram: introduce per-device debug_stat sysfs node
debug_stat sysfs is read-only and represents various debugging data that
zram developers may need.  This file is not meant to be used by anyone
else: its content is not documented and will change any time w/o any
notice.  Therefore, the output of debug_stat file contains a version
string.  To avoid any confusion, we will increase the version number
every time we modify the output.

At the moment this file exports only one value -- the number of
re-compressions, IOW, the number of times compression fast path has
failed.  This stat is temporary any will be useful in case if any
per-cpu compression streams regressions will be reported.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160513230834.GB26763@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160511134553.12655-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00

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What: /sys/block/zram<id>/disksize
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The disksize file is read-write and specifies the disk size
which represents the limit on the *uncompressed* worth of data
that can be stored in this disk.
Unit: bytes
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/initstate
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The initstate file is read-only and shows the initialization
state of the device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/reset
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The reset file is write-only and allows resetting the
device. The reset operation frees all the memory associated
with this device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/num_reads
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The num_reads file is read-only and specifies the number of
reads (failed or successful) done on this device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/num_writes
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The num_writes file is read-only and specifies the number of
writes (failed or successful) done on this device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/invalid_io
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The invalid_io file is read-only and specifies the number of
non-page-size-aligned I/O requests issued to this device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/failed_reads
Date: February 2014
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The failed_reads file is read-only and specifies the number of
failed reads happened on this device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/failed_writes
Date: February 2014
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The failed_writes file is read-only and specifies the number of
failed writes happened on this device.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/max_comp_streams
Date: February 2014
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The max_comp_streams file is read-write and specifies the
number of backend's zcomp_strm compression streams (number of
concurrent compress operations).
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/comp_algorithm
Date: February 2014
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The comp_algorithm file is read-write and lets to show
available and selected compression algorithms, change
compression algorithm selection.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/notify_free
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The notify_free file is read-only. Depending on device usage
scenario it may account a) the number of pages freed because
of swap slot free notifications or b) the number of pages freed
because of REQ_DISCARD requests sent by bio. The former ones
are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot is freed, which
implies that this disk is being used as a swap disk. The latter
ones are sent by filesystem mounted with discard option,
whenever some data blocks are getting discarded.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/zero_pages
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The zero_pages file is read-only and specifies number of zero
filled pages written to this disk. No memory is allocated for
such pages.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/orig_data_size
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The orig_data_size file is read-only and specifies uncompressed
size of data stored in this disk. This excludes zero-filled
pages (zero_pages) since no memory is allocated for them.
Unit: bytes
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/compr_data_size
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The compr_data_size file is read-only and specifies compressed
size of data stored in this disk. So, compression ratio can be
calculated using orig_data_size and this statistic.
Unit: bytes
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_used_total
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Description:
The mem_used_total file is read-only and specifies the amount
of memory, including allocator fragmentation and metadata
overhead, allocated for this disk. So, allocator space
efficiency can be calculated using compr_data_size and this
statistic.
Unit: bytes
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_used_max
Date: August 2014
Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Description:
The mem_used_max file is read/write and specifies the amount
of maximum memory zram have consumed to store compressed data.
For resetting the value, you should write "0". Otherwise,
you could see -EINVAL.
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
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/compact
Date: August 2015
Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Description:
The compact file is write-only and trigger compaction for
allocator zrm uses. The allocator moves some objects so that
it could free fragment space.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/io_stat
Date: August 2015
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The io_stat file is read-only and accumulates device's I/O
statistics not accounted by block layer. For example,
failed_reads, failed_writes, etc. File format is similar to
block layer statistics file format.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat
Date: August 2015
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The mm_stat file is read-only and represents device's mm
statistics (orig_data_size, compr_data_size, etc.) in a format
similar to block layer statistics file format.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/debug_stat
Date: July 2016
Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Description:
The debug_stat file is read-only and represents various
device's debugging info useful for kernel developers. Its
format is not documented intentionally and may change
anytime without any notice.