Re: [PATCH v4 8/8] zram: enable contextless compression alg in zram

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 22:05:06 EST


On (10/14/15 16:38), Joonsoo Kim wrote:
[..]
> @@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ static ssize_t comp_algorithm_show(struct device *dev,
> size_t sz;
> struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
>
> + deprecated_attr_warn("comp_algorithm");
> down_read(&zram->init_lock);
> sz = zcomp_available_show(zram->compressor, buf);
> up_read(&zram->init_lock);

oh, one more thing.

deprecated_attr_warn() should come with `Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram' update.
something like:

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
index 720ea92..ad5b59d 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
@@ -117,3 +117,14 @@ Description:
Downgraded to write-only node: so it's possible to set new
value only; its current value is stored in zram<id>/mm_stat
node.
+
+What: /sys/block/zram<id>/comp_algorithm
+Date: XXX
+Contact: XXX
+Description:
+ The comp_algorithm file is read/write and provides information
+ on available, currently selected compression algorithm (read
+ operation) and lets one to change the compression algorithm
+ (write operation).
+ Downgraded to write-only node: use `/proc/crypto' to get the
+ list of supported compression algorithms.


---


And I guess Cc `Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>' (doc maintainer) and
'linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' will be the right thing to do here.

-ss
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