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zram: add config and doc file for writeback feature

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This patch adds document and kconfig for using of writeback feature.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498459987-24562-10-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Juneho Choi <juno.choi@lge.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minchan Kim
2017-09-06 16:20:10 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8e654f8fbf
commit 5a47074f02
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@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ max_comp_streams RW the number of possible concurrent compress operations
comp_algorithm RW show and change the compression algorithm
compact WO trigger memory compaction
debug_stat RO this file is used for zram debugging purposes
backing_dev RW set up backend storage for zram to write out
User space is advised to use the following files to read the device statistics.
@@ -231,5 +232,15 @@ line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
resets the disksize to zero. You must set the disksize again
before reusing the device.
* Optional Feature
= writeback
With incompressible pages, there is no memory saving with zram.
Instead, with CONFIG_ZRAM_WRITEBACK, zram can write incompressible page
to backing storage rather than keeping it in memory.
User should set up backing device via /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev
before disksize setting.
Nitin Gupta
ngupta@vflare.org