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Now zram document syas "set disksize is optional"
but partly it's wrong. When you try to use zram firstly after
booting, you must set disksize, otherwise zram can't work because
zram gendisk's size is 0. But once you do it, you can use zram freely
after reset because reset doesn't reset to zero paradoxically.
So in this time, disksize setting is optional.:(
It's inconsitent for user behavior and not straightforward.

This patch forces always setting disksize firstly before using zram.
Yes. It changes current behavior so someone could complain when
he upgrades zram. Apparently it could be a problem if zram is mainline
but it still lives in staging so behavior could be changed for right
way to go. Let them excuse.

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Minchan Kim authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Feb 4, 2013
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27 changes: 14 additions & 13 deletions drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt
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Expand Up @@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram.
This creates 4 devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3}
(num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1)

2) Set Disksize (Optional):
Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'
(in bytes). If disksize is not given, default value of 25%
of RAM is used.

# Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize
echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

NOTE: disksize cannot be changed if the disk contains any
data. So, for such a disk, you need to issue 'reset' (see below)
before you can change its disksize.
2) Set Disksize
Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'.
The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes.
Examples:
# Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize
echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

# Using mem suffixes
echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

3) Activate:
mkswap /dev/zram0
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echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset

(This frees all the memory allocated for the given device).

This frees all the memory allocated for the given device and
resets the disksize to zero. You must set the disksize again
before reusing the device.

Please report any problems at:
- Mailing list: linux-mm-cc at laptop dot org
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51 changes: 18 additions & 33 deletions drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
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Expand Up @@ -94,34 +94,6 @@ static int page_zero_filled(void *ptr)
return 1;
}

static void zram_set_disksize(struct zram *zram, size_t totalram_bytes)
{
if (!zram->disksize) {
pr_info(
"disk size not provided. You can use disksize_kb module "
"param to specify size.\nUsing default: (%u%% of RAM).\n",
default_disksize_perc_ram
);
zram->disksize = default_disksize_perc_ram *
(totalram_bytes / 100);
}

if (zram->disksize > 2 * (totalram_bytes)) {
pr_info(
"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.\n"
"\tMemory Size: %zu kB\n"
"\tSize you selected: %llu kB\n"
"Continuing anyway ...\n",
totalram_bytes >> 10, zram->disksize >> 10);
}

zram->disksize &= PAGE_MASK;
}

static void zram_free_page(struct zram *zram, size_t index)
{
unsigned long handle = zram->table[index].handle;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -497,6 +469,9 @@ void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
{
size_t index;

if (!zram->init_done)
return;

zram->init_done = 0;

/* Free various per-device buffers */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -525,6 +500,7 @@ void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
memset(&zram->stats, 0, sizeof(zram->stats));

zram->disksize = 0;
set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
}

void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram)
Expand All @@ -546,7 +522,19 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
return 0;
}

zram_set_disksize(zram, totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
if (zram->disksize > 2 * (totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT)) {
pr_info(
"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.\n"
"\tMemory Size: %zu kB\n"
"\tSize you selected: %llu kB\n"
"Continuing anyway ...\n",
(totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT) >> 10, zram->disksize >> 10
);
}

zram->compress_workmem = kzalloc(LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!zram->compress_workmem) {
Expand All @@ -571,8 +559,6 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
goto fail_no_table;
}

set_capacity(zram->disk, zram->disksize >> SECTOR_SHIFT);

/* zram devices sort of resembles non-rotational disks */
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, zram->disk->queue);

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zram = &zram_devices[i];

destroy_device(zram);
if (zram->init_done)
zram_reset_device(zram);
zram_reset_device(zram);
}

unregister_blkdev(zram_major, "zram");
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5 changes: 1 addition & 4 deletions drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
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Expand Up @@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ static const unsigned max_num_devices = 32;

/*-- Configurable parameters */

/* Default zram disk size: 25% of total RAM */
static const unsigned default_disksize_perc_ram = 25;

/*
* Pages that compress to size greater than this are stored
* uncompressed in memory.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -115,6 +112,6 @@ extern struct attribute_group zram_disk_attr_group;
#endif

extern int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram);
extern void __zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram);
extern void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram);

#endif
6 changes: 1 addition & 5 deletions drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
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Expand Up @@ -110,11 +110,7 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
if (bdev)
fsync_bdev(bdev);

down_write(&zram->init_lock);
if (zram->init_done)
__zram_reset_device(zram);
up_write(&zram->init_lock);

zram_reset_device(zram);
return len;
}

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