[PATCH v4 3/4] zram: zram memory size limitation

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Thu Aug 21 2014 - 20:41:48 EST


Since zram has no control feature to limit memory usage,
it makes hard to manage system memrory.

This patch adds new knob "mem_limit" via sysfs to set up the
a limit so that zram could fail allocation once it reaches
the limit.

In addition, user could change the limit in runtime so that
he could manage the memory more dynamically.

Default is no limit so it doesn't break old behavior.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 10 ++++++++
Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++---
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++++
4 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
index 70ec992514d0..b8c779d64968 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
@@ -119,3 +119,13 @@ Description:
efficiency can be calculated using compr_data_size and this
statistic.
Unit: bytes
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_limit
+Date: August 2014
+Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
+Description:
+ The mem_limit file is read/write and specifies the amount
+ of memory to be able to consume memory to store store
+ compressed data. The limit could be changed in run time
+ and "0" is default which means disable the limit.
+ Unit: bytes
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 0595c3f56ccf..82c6a41116db 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -74,14 +74,30 @@ 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.

-5) Activate:
+5) Set memory limit: Optional
+ Set memory limit by writing the value to sysfs node 'mem_limit'.
+ The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes.
+ In addition, you could change the value in runtime.
+ Examples:
+ # limit /dev/zram0 with 50MB memory
+ echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
+
+ # Using mem suffixes
+ echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
+ echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
+ echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
+
+ # To disable memory limit
+ echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/mem_limit
+
+6) Activate:
mkswap /dev/zram0
swapon /dev/zram0

mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1
mount /dev/zram1 /tmp

-6) Stats:
+7) Stats:
Per-device statistics are exported as various nodes under
/sys/block/zram<id>/
disksize
@@ -96,11 +112,11 @@ size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful.
compr_data_size
mem_used_total

-7) Deactivate:
+8) Deactivate:
swapoff /dev/zram0
umount /dev/zram1

-8) Reset:
+9) Reset:
Write any positive value to 'reset' sysfs node
echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index f0b8b30a7128..370c355eb127 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -122,6 +122,33 @@ static ssize_t max_comp_streams_show(struct device *dev,
return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", val);
}

+static ssize_t mem_limit_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ u64 val;
+ struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
+
+ down_read(&zram->init_lock);
+ val = zram->limit_pages;
+ up_read(&zram->init_lock);
+
+ return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%llu\n", val << PAGE_SHIFT);
+}
+
+static ssize_t mem_limit_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+ u64 limit;
+ struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
+
+ limit = memparse(buf, NULL);
+ down_write(&zram->init_lock);
+ zram->limit_pages = PAGE_ALIGN(limit) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ up_write(&zram->init_lock);
+
+ return len;
+}
+
static ssize_t max_comp_streams_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
{
@@ -513,6 +540,14 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
+
+ if (zram->limit_pages &&
+ zs_get_total_pages(meta->mem_pool) > zram->limit_pages) {
+ zs_free(meta->mem_pool, handle);
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
cmem = zs_map_object(meta->mem_pool, handle, ZS_MM_WO);

if ((clen == PAGE_SIZE) && !is_partial_io(bvec)) {
@@ -617,6 +652,9 @@ static void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram, bool reset_capacity)
struct zram_meta *meta;

down_write(&zram->init_lock);
+
+ zram->limit_pages = 0;
+
if (!init_done(zram)) {
up_write(&zram->init_lock);
return;
@@ -857,6 +895,8 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(initstate, S_IRUGO, initstate_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(reset, S_IWUSR, NULL, reset_store);
static DEVICE_ATTR(orig_data_size, S_IRUGO, orig_data_size_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(mem_used_total, S_IRUGO, mem_used_total_show, NULL);
+static DEVICE_ATTR(mem_limit, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, mem_limit_show,
+ mem_limit_store);
static DEVICE_ATTR(max_comp_streams, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
max_comp_streams_show, max_comp_streams_store);
static DEVICE_ATTR(comp_algorithm, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
@@ -885,6 +925,7 @@ static struct attribute *zram_disk_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_orig_data_size.attr,
&dev_attr_compr_data_size.attr,
&dev_attr_mem_used_total.attr,
+ &dev_attr_mem_limit.attr,
&dev_attr_max_comp_streams.attr,
&dev_attr_comp_algorithm.attr,
NULL,
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
index e0f725c87cc6..b7aa9c21553f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ struct zram {
u64 disksize; /* bytes */
int max_comp_streams;
struct zram_stats stats;
+ /*
+ * the number of pages zram can consume for storing compressed data
+ */
+ unsigned long limit_pages;
+
char compressor[10];
};
#endif
--
2.0.0

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