linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] zram: introduce zram memory tracking

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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:26:01 +0900
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] zram: introduce zram memory tracking

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 09:17:45PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 04/15/2018 08:31 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > zRam as swap is useful for small memory device. However, swap means
> > those pages on zram are mostly cold pages due to VM's LRU algorithm.
> > Especially, once init data for application are touched for launching,
> > they tend to be not accessed any more and finally swapped out.
> > zRAM can store such cold pages as compressed form but it's pointless
> > to keep in memory. Better idea is app developers free them directly
> > rather than remaining them on heap.
> > 
> > This patch tell us last access time of each block of zram via
> > "cat /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram0/block_state".
> > 
> > The output is as follows,
> >       300    75.033841 .wh
> >       301    63.806904 s..
> >       302    63.806919 ..h
> > 
> > First column is zram's block index and 3rh one represents symbol
> > (s: same page w: written page to backing store h: huge page) of the
> > block state. Second column represents usec time unit of the block
> > was last accessed. So above example means the 300th block is accessed
> > at 75.033851 second and it was huge so it was written to the backing
> > store.
> > 
> > Admin can leverage this information to catch cold|incompressible pages
> > of process with *pagemap* once part of heaps are swapped out.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt |  24 ++++++
> >  drivers/block/zram/Kconfig      |  10 +++
> >  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c   | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h   |   5 ++
> >  4 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> > index 78db38d02bc9..45509c7d5716 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> > @@ -243,5 +243,29 @@ to backing storage rather than keeping it in memory.
> >  User should set up backing device via /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev
> >  before disksize setting.
> >  
> > += memory tracking
> > +
> > +With CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING, user can know information of the
> > +zram block. It could be useful to catch cold or incompressible
> > +pages of the proess with*pagemap.
> 
> ?               process
> 
> > +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 ..h
> > +
> > +First column is zram's block index.
> > +Second column is access time.
> > +Third column is state of the block.
> > +(s: same page
> > +w: written page to backing store
> > +h: huge page)
> > +
> > +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
> > +storage. It's a debugging feature so anyone shouldn't rely on it to work
> > +properly.
> > +
> >  Nitin Gupta
> >  ngupta@...are.org
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig b/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
> > index ac3a31d433b2..01090338fb47 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
> > @@ -26,3 +26,13 @@ config ZRAM_WRITEBACK
> >  	 /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev.
> >  
> >  	 See zram.txt for more infomration.
> > +
> > +config ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING
> > +	bool "Tracking zram block status"
> 
> 	bool "Track zram block status"
> 
> although sometimes it is zRam or zRAM.
> 
> 
> > +	depends on ZRAM && DEBUG_FS
> > +	help
> > +	  With this feature, admin can track the state of allocated block
> 
> 	                                                            blocks
> 
> > +	  of zRAM. Admin could see the information via
> > +	  /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zramX/block_state.
> > +
> > +	  See zram.txt for more information.
> 
> 	  See Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt for more information.

I just fix things. I will wait more feedback and then resend.
Thanks for the review!