The patch titled
Subject: zram: add incompressible flag to read_block_state()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
zram-add-incompressible-flag-to-read_block_state.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/zram-add-incompressible-flag-to-read_block_state.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: zram: add incompressible flag to read_block_state()
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 20:50:47 +0900
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 11 +++++++----
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst~zram-add-incompressible-flag-to-read_block_state
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
@@ -497,10 +497,11 @@ pages of the process with*pagemap.
If you enable the feature, you could see block state via
/sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram0/block_state". The output is as follows::
- 300 75.033841 .wh..
- 301 63.806904 s....
- 302 63.806919 ..hi.
- 303 62.801919 ....r
+ 300 75.033841 .wh...
+ 301 63.806904 s.....
+ 302 63.806919 ..hi..
+ 303 62.801919 ....r.
+ 304 146.781902 ..hi.n
First column
zram's block index.
@@ -519,6 +520,8 @@ Third column
idle page
r:
recompressed page (secondary compression algorithm)
+ n:
+ none (including secondary) of algorithms could compress it
First line of above example says 300th block is accessed at 75.033841sec
and the block's state is huge so it is written back to the backing
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-add-incompressible-flag-to-read_block_state
+++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -946,14 +946,16 @@ static ssize_t read_block_state(struct f
ts = ktime_to_timespec64(zram->table[index].ac_time);
copied = snprintf(kbuf + written, count,
- "%12zd %12lld.%06lu %c%c%c%c%c\n",
+ "%12zd %12lld.%06lu %c%c%c%c%c%c\n",
index, (s64)ts.tv_sec,
ts.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC,
zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_SAME) ? 's' : '.',
zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_WB) ? 'w' : '.',
zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_HUGE) ? 'h' : '.',
zram_test_flag(zram, index, ZRAM_IDLE) ? 'i' : '.',
- zram_get_priority(zram, index) ? 'r' : '.');
+ zram_get_priority(zram, index) ? 'r' : '.',
+ zram_test_flag(zram, index,
+ ZRAM_INCOMPRESSIBLE) ? 'n' : '.');
if (count <= copied) {
zram_slot_unlock(zram, index);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
zram-preparation-for-multi-zcomp-support.patch
zram-add-recompression-algorithm-sysfs-knob.patch
zram-factor-out-wb-and-non-wb-zram-read-functions.patch
zram-introduce-recompress-sysfs-knob.patch
zram-add-recompress-flag-to-read_block_state.patch
zram-clarify-writeback_store-comment.patch
zram-use-is_err_value-to-check-for-zs_malloc-errors.patch
zram-remove-redundant-checks-from-zram_recompress.patch
zram-add-algo-parameter-support-to-zram_recompress.patch
documentation-add-zram-recompression-documentation.patch
zram-add-incompressible-writeback.patch
zram-add-incompressible-flag-to-read_block_state.patch
