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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -0700 |
commit | 47a469421d792dcb91a1e73319d26134241953d2 (patch) | |
tree | 6a388381a434ebe87fed2fbb10a53ced7a7ce8b5 /Documentation/vm/zswap.txt | |
parent | c13c81006314ad76c2b31824960a900385601b8b (diff) | |
parent | 51229b495340bd7a02ce3622d1966829b67054ea (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM
- lots of misc things
- procfs updates
- printk feature work
- updates to get_maintainer, MAINTAINERS, checkpatch
- lib/ updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (96 commits)
exit,stats: /* obey this comment */
coredump: add __printf attribute to cn_*printf functions
coredump: use from_kuid/kgid when formatting corename
fs/reiserfs: remove unneeded cast
NILFS2: support NFSv2 export
fs/befs/btree.c: remove unneeded initializations
fs/minix: remove unneeded cast
init/do_mounts.c: add create_dev() failure log
kasan: remove duplicate definition of the macro KASAN_FREE_PAGE
fs/efs: femove unneeded cast
checkpatch: emit "NOTE: <types>" message only once after multiple files
checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog
checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content
checkpatch: add multi-line handling for PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY
checkpatch: suggest using eth_zero_addr() and eth_broadcast_addr()
checkpatch: fix processing of MEMSET issues
checkpatch: suggest using ether_addr_equal*()
checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files
checkpatch: remove local from codespell path
checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe to show filenames
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/zswap.txt')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt b/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt index 00c3d31e7971..8458c0861e4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt @@ -26,8 +26,22 @@ Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap device when the compressed pool reaches its size limit. This requirement had been identified in prior community discussions. -To enabled zswap, the "enabled" attribute must be set to 1 at boot time. e.g. -zswap.enabled=1 +Zswap is disabled by default but can be enabled at boot time by setting +the "enabled" attribute to 1 at boot time. ie: zswap.enabled=1. Zswap +can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs interface. +An example command to enable zswap at runtime, assuming sysfs is mounted +at /sys, is: + +echo 1 > /sys/modules/zswap/parameters/enabled + +When zswap is disabled at runtime it will stop storing pages that are +being swapped out. However, it will _not_ immediately write out or fault +back into memory all of the pages stored in the compressed pool. The +pages stored in zswap will remain in the compressed pool until they are +either invalidated or faulted back into memory. In order to force all +pages out of the compressed pool, a swapoff on the swap device(s) will +fault back into memory all swapped out pages, including those in the +compressed pool. Design: |