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| author | Minchan Kim | 2018-12-28 00:36:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2018-12-28 12:11:49 -0800 |
| commit | 23eddf39b2c28c05cb8f8203d38e61807d701b38 (patch) | |
| tree | 30ec9421877d6171486386bb32122e7a077480bb /Documentation | |
| parent | a939888ec38bf1f33e4a903056677e92a4844244 (diff) | |
zram: add bd_stat statistics
bd_stat represents things that happened in the backing device. Currently
it supports bd_counts, bd_reads and bd_writes which are helpful to
understand wearout of flash and memory saving.
[minchan@kernel.org: v4]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203024045.153534-7-minchan@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127055429.251614-7-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 11 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram index d1f80b077885..65fc33b2f53b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram @@ -113,3 +113,11 @@ Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Description: The writeback file is write-only and trigger idle and/or huge page writeback to backing device. + +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/bd_stat +Date: November 2018 +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> +Description: + The bd_stat file is read-only and represents backing device's + statistics (bd_count, bd_reads, bd_writes) in a format + similar to block layer statistics file format. diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index 806cdaabac83..906df97527a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -221,6 +221,17 @@ line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace: pages_compacted the number of pages freed during compaction huge_pages the number of incompressible pages +File /sys/block/zram<id>/bd_stat + +The stat file represents device's backing device statistics. It consists of +a single line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace: + bd_count size of data written in backing device. + Unit: 4K bytes + bd_reads the number of reads from backing device + Unit: 4K bytes + bd_writes the number of writes to backing device + Unit: 4K bytes + 9) Deactivate: swapoff /dev/zram0 umount /dev/zram1 |