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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:33:29 -0400
From: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>, juno.choi@....com,
seungho1.park@....com, Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@...gle.com>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ds2horner@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] zram: limit memory size for zram
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
> Since zram has no control feature to limit memory usage,
> it makes hard to manage system memrory.
>
> This patch adds new knob "mem_limit" via sysfs to set up the
> limit.
>
> Note: I added the logic in zram, not zsmalloc because the limit
> is requirement of zram, not zsmalloc so I'd like to avoid
> unnecessary branch in zsmalloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++----
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> index 0595c3f56ccf..9f239ff8c444 100644
> --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> @@ -74,14 +74,26 @@ There is little point creating a zram of greater than twice the size of memory
> since we expect a 2:1 compression ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1% of the
> size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful.
>
> -5) Activate:
> +5) Set memory limit: Optional
> + Set memory limit by writing the value to sysfs node 'mem_limit'.
> + The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes.
> + Examples:
> + # limit /dev/zram0 with 50MB memory
> + echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
> +
> + # Using mem suffixes
> + echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
> + echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
> + echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
> +
> +6) Activate:
> mkswap /dev/zram0
> swapon /dev/zram0
>
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1
> mount /dev/zram1 /tmp
>
> -6) Stats:
> +7) Stats:
> Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under
> /sys/block/zram<id>/
> disksize
> @@ -96,11 +108,11 @@ size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful.
> compr_data_size
> mem_used_total
>
> -7) Deactivate:
> +8) Deactivate:
> swapoff /dev/zram0
> umount /dev/zram1
>
> -8) Reset:
> +9) Reset:
> Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node
> echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
> echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> index d00831c3d731..b48a3d0e9031 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -122,6 +122,35 @@ static ssize_t max_comp_streams_show(struct device *dev,
> return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", val);
> }
>
> +static ssize_t mem_limit_show(struct device *dev,
> + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + u64 val;
> + struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
> +
> + down_read(&zram->init_lock);
> + val = zram->limit_bytes;
> + up_read(&zram->init_lock);
> +
> + return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%llu\n", val);
> +}
> +
> +static ssize_t mem_limit_store(struct device *dev,
> + struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
> +{
> + u64 limit;
> + struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
> +
> + limit = memparse(buf, NULL);
> + if (!limit)
> + return -EINVAL;
Shouldn't passing a 0 limit be allowed, to disable the limit?
> +
> + down_write(&zram->init_lock);
> + zram->limit_bytes = limit;
> + up_write(&zram->init_lock);
> + return len;
> +}
> +
> static ssize_t max_comp_streams_store(struct device *dev,
> struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
> {
> @@ -513,6 +542,14 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto out;
> }
> +
> + if (zram->limit_bytes &&
> + zs_get_total_size_bytes(meta->mem_pool) > zram->limit_bytes) {
> + zs_free(meta->mem_pool, handle);
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> cmem = zs_map_object(meta->mem_pool, handle, ZS_MM_WO);
>
> if ((clen == PAGE_SIZE) && !is_partial_io(bvec)) {
> @@ -617,6 +654,9 @@ static void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram, bool reset_capacity)
> struct zram_meta *meta;
>
> down_write(&zram->init_lock);
> +
> + zram->limit_bytes = 0;
> +
> if (!init_done(zram)) {
> up_write(&zram->init_lock);
> return;
> @@ -857,6 +897,8 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(initstate, S_IRUGO, initstate_show, NULL);
> static DEVICE_ATTR(reset, S_IWUSR, NULL, reset_store);
> static DEVICE_ATTR(orig_data_size, S_IRUGO, orig_data_size_show, NULL);
> static DEVICE_ATTR(mem_used_total, S_IRUGO, mem_used_total_show, NULL);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(mem_limit, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, mem_limit_show,
> + mem_limit_store);
> static DEVICE_ATTR(max_comp_streams, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
> max_comp_streams_show, max_comp_streams_store);
> static DEVICE_ATTR(comp_algorithm, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
> @@ -885,6 +927,7 @@ static struct attribute *zram_disk_attrs[] = {
> &dev_attr_orig_data_size.attr,
> &dev_attr_compr_data_size.attr,
> &dev_attr_mem_used_total.attr,
> + &dev_attr_mem_limit.attr,
> &dev_attr_max_comp_streams.attr,
> &dev_attr_comp_algorithm.attr,
> NULL,
> diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> index e0f725c87cc6..086c51782e75 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ struct zram {
> * we can store in a disk.
> */
> u64 disksize; /* bytes */
> + u64 limit_bytes;
> int max_comp_streams;
> struct zram_stats stats;
> char compressor[10];
> --
> 2.0.0
>
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