Re: [PATCH 6/6] zram: export new 'mm_stat' sysfs attrs

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 21:42:10 EST


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:08:34AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Per-device `zram<id>/mm_stat' file provides accumulated mm statistics
> of particular zram device in a format similar to block layer statistics.
> The file consists of a single line and represents the following stats
> (separated by whitespace):
> orig_data_size
> compr_data_size
> mem_used_total
> mem_limit
> mem_used_max
> zero_pages
> num_migrated
>
> Since now we have three stat files (block layer zram<id>/stat,
> zram<id>/io_stat and zram<id>/mm_stat) document WARNING about
> per-stat sysfs nodes being deprecated.

Any user doesn't take care of document. I think we should add
pr_warn_once to notify the user if he tried deprecated interface.
In addition, we should add deprecated interface in Documentation/ABI/obsolete/

>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 8 ++++++++
> Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 18 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> index a7f622f..8114c81 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> @@ -158,3 +158,11 @@ Description:
> statistics not accounted by block layer. For example,
> failed_reads, failed_writes, etc. File format is similar to
> block layer statistics file format.
> +
> +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat
> +Date: August 2015
> +Contact: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + The mm_stat file is read-only and accumulates device's mm
> + statistics (orig_data_size, compr_data_size, etc.) in a format

Every field in mm_stat doesn't mean accumulation.

--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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