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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2020-12-14 19:14:28 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-15 12:13:47 -0800
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zram: support page writeback
There is demand to writeback specific process pages to backing store instead of all idles pages in the system due to storage wear out concerns and to launching latency of apps which are most of the time idle but are critical for resume latency. This patch extends the writeback knob to support a specific page writeback. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020190506.3758660-1-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: 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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@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ Admin can request writeback of those idle pages at right timing via::
With the command, zram writeback idle pages from memory to the storage.
+If admin want to write a specific page in zram device to backing device,
+they could write a page index into the interface.
+
+ echo "page_index=1251" > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
+
If there are lots of write IO with flash device, potentially, it has
flash wearout problem so that admin needs to design write limitation
to guarantee storage health for entire product life.