Commit c00ed16a authored by Dan Streetman's avatar Dan Streetman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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zswap: runtime enable/disable 

Change the "enabled" parameter to be configurable at runtime.  Remove the
enabled check from init(), and move it to the frontswap store() function;
when enabled, pages will be stored, and when disabled, pages won't be
stored.

This is almost identical to Seth's patch from 2 years ago:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.2/04289.html



[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarSeth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d93435c3

Documentation/vm/zswap.txt

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@@ -26,8 +26,22 @@ Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap 
device when the compressed pool reaches its size limit.  This requirement had

been identified in prior community discussions.



To enabled zswap, the "enabled" attribute must be set to 1 at boot time.  e.g.

zswap.enabled=1

Zswap is disabled by default but can be enabled at boot time by setting

the "enabled" attribute to 1 at boot time. ie: zswap.enabled=1.  Zswap

can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs interface.

An example command to enable zswap at runtime, assuming sysfs is mounted

at /sys, is:



echo 1 > /sys/modules/zswap/parameters/enabled



When zswap is disabled at runtime it will stop storing pages that are

being swapped out.  However, it will _not_ immediately write out or fault

back into memory all of the pages stored in the compressed pool.  The

pages stored in zswap will remain in the compressed pool until they are

either invalidated or faulted back into memory.  In order to force all

pages out of the compressed pool, a swapoff on the swap device(s) will

fault back into memory all swapped out pages, including those in the

compressed pool.



Design:

mm/zswap.c

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@@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ static u64 zswap_duplicate_entry; 
/*********************************

* tunables

**********************************/

/* Enable/disable zswap (disabled by default, fixed at boot for now) */

static bool zswap_enabled __read_mostly;

module_param_named(enabled, zswap_enabled, bool, 0444);



/* Enable/disable zswap (disabled by default) */

static bool zswap_enabled;

module_param_named(enabled, zswap_enabled, bool, 0644);



/* Compressor to be used by zswap (fixed at boot for now) */

#define ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT "lzo"
@@ -648,7 +649,7 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset, 
	u8 *src, *dst;

	struct zswap_header *zhdr;



	if (!tree) {

	if (!zswap_enabled || !tree) {

		ret = -ENODEV;

		goto reject;

	}
@@ -901,9 +902,6 @@ static int __init init_zswap(void) 
{

	gfp_t gfp = __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;



	if (!zswap_enabled)

		return 0;



	pr_info("loading zswap\n");



	zswap_pool = zpool_create_pool(zswap_zpool_type, "zswap", gfp,

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