Re: [PATCH] brd: expose number of allocated pages in debugfs

[Jens Axboe]

On 4/16/21 3:18 PM, Saravanan D wrote:
> From: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@xxxxxx>
> 
> While the maximum size of each ramdisk is defined either
> as a module parameter, or compile time default, it's impossible
> to know how many pages have currently been allocated by each
> ram%d device, since they're allocated when used and never freed.
> 
> This patch creates a new directory at this location:
> 
> »       /sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/
> 
> ...which will contain a file named "ram%d" for each instantiated
> ramdisk on the system. The file is read-only, and read() will
> output the number of pages currently held by that ramdisk.

I folded in the justification and applied it for 5.13, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe