zram: support page writeback

There is demand to writeback specific process pages to backing store
instead of all idles pages in the system due to storage wear out concerns
and to launching latency of apps which are most of the time idle but are
critical for resume latency.

This patch extends the writeback knob to support a specific page
writeback.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020190506.3758660-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
index a6fd1f9b5faf52841d5fc281ef215c1ea019362d..8f3cfa42e443a77a6c02fb05972c15f26528a9d4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ Admin can request writeback of those idle pages at right timing via::
 
 With the command, zram writeback idle pages from memory to the storage.
 
+If admin want to write a specific page in zram device to backing device,
+they could write a page index into the interface.
+
+       echo "page_index=1251" > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
+
 If there are lots of write IO with flash device, potentially, it has
 flash wearout problem so that admin needs to design write limitation
 to guarantee storage health for entire product life.

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 1b697208d6615765ec16ed83700da4e0240d9ffa..9a1e6ee4dbeff5fd84fea31ea3834c267c99fd11 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -620,15 +620,19 @@ static int read_from_bdev_async(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
        return 1;
 }
 
+#define PAGE_WB_SIG "page_index="
+
+#define PAGE_WRITEBACK 0
 #define HUGE_WRITEBACK 1
 #define IDLE_WRITEBACK 2
 
+
 static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
                struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
 {
        struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
        unsigned long nr_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-       unsigned long index;
+       unsigned long index = 0;
        struct bio bio;
        struct bio_vec bio_vec;
        struct page *page;
@@ -640,8 +644,17 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
                mode = IDLE_WRITEBACK;
        else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "huge"))
                mode = HUGE_WRITEBACK;
-       else
-               return -EINVAL;
+       else {
+               if (strncmp(buf, PAGE_WB_SIG, sizeof(PAGE_WB_SIG) - 1))
+                       return -EINVAL;
+
+               ret = kstrtol(buf + sizeof(PAGE_WB_SIG) - 1, 10, &index);
+               if (ret || index >= nr_pages)
+                       return -EINVAL;
+
+               nr_pages = 1;
+               mode = PAGE_WRITEBACK;
+       }
 
        down_read(&zram->init_lock);
        if (!init_done(zram)) {
@@ -660,7 +673,7 @@ static ssize_t writeback_store(struct device *dev,
                goto release_init_lock;
        }
 
-       for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; index++) {
+       while (nr_pages--) {
                struct bio_vec bvec;
 
                bvec.bv_page = page;