linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] Documentation: document zram pool_page

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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:12:11 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Documentation: document zram pool_page_order attribute

Provide a simple documentation for zram pool_page_order
device attribute.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 31 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
index 010fb05a5999..cd12a5982ae0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
@@ -112,7 +112,24 @@ to list all of them using, for instance, /proc/crypto or any other
 method. This, however, has an advantage of permitting the usage of
 custom crypto compression modules (implementing S/W or H/W compression).
 
-4) Set Disksize
+4) Set maximum pool page order
+==============================
+
+zsmalloc pages can consist of up to 2^N physical pages. The exact size
+is calculated per each zsmalloc size class during zsmalloc pool creation.
+ZRAM provides pool_page_order device attribute to see or change N.
+
+Examples::
+
+	#show current maximum zsmalloc page order
+	cat /sys/block/zramX/pool_page_order
+	2
+
+	#set maximum zsmalloc page order
+	echo 3 > /sys/block/zramX/pool_page_order
+
+
+5) Set Disksize
 ===============
 
 Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'.
@@ -132,7 +149,7 @@ 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) Set memory limit: Optional
+6) Set memory limit: Optional
 =============================
 
 Set memory limit by writing the value to sysfs node 'mem_limit'.
@@ -151,7 +168,7 @@ Examples::
 	# To disable memory limit
 	echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
 
-6) Activate
+7) Activate
 ===========
 
 ::
@@ -162,7 +179,7 @@ Examples::
 	mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1
 	mount /dev/zram1 /tmp
 
-7) Add/remove zram devices
+8) Add/remove zram devices
 ==========================
 
 zram provides a control interface, which enables dynamic (on-demand) device
@@ -182,7 +199,7 @@ execute::
 
 	echo X > /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove
 
-8) Stats
+9) Stats
 ========
 
 Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under /sys/block/zram<id>/
@@ -283,7 +300,7 @@ a single line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
 		Unit: 4K bytes
  ============== =============================================================
 
-9) Deactivate
+10) Deactivate
 =============
 
 ::
@@ -291,7 +308,7 @@ a single line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
 	swapoff /dev/zram0
 	umount /dev/zram1
 
-10) Reset
+11) Reset
 =========
 
 	Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node::
-- 
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