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1 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/disksize
2 Date:           August 2010
3 Contact:        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
4 Description:
5                 The disksize file is read-write and specifies the disk size
6                 which represents the limit on the *uncompressed* worth of data
7                 that can be stored in this disk.
8                 Unit: bytes
9
10 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/initstate
11 Date:           August 2010
12 Contact:        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
13 Description:
14                 The initstate file is read-only and shows the initialization
15                 state of the device.
16
17 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/reset
18 Date:           August 2010
19 Contact:        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
20 Description:
21                 The reset file is write-only and allows resetting the
22                 device. The reset operation frees all the memory associated
23                 with this device.
24
25 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/max_comp_streams
26 Date:           February 2014
27 Contact:        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
28 Description:
29                 The max_comp_streams file is read-write and specifies the
30                 number of backend's zcomp_strm compression streams (number of
31                 concurrent compress operations).
32
33 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/comp_algorithm
34 Date:           February 2014
35 Contact:        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
36 Description:
37                 The comp_algorithm file is read-write and lets to show
38                 available and selected compression algorithms, change
39                 compression algorithm selection.
40
41 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_used_max
42 Date:           August 2014
43 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
44 Description:
45                 The mem_used_max file is write-only and is used to reset
46                 the counter of maximum memory zram have consumed to store
47                 compressed data. For resetting the value, you should write
48                 "0". Otherwise, you could see -EINVAL.
49                 Unit: bytes
50
51 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_limit
52 Date:           August 2014
53 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
54 Description:
55                 The mem_limit file is write-only and specifies the maximum
56                 amount of memory ZRAM can use to store the compressed data.
57                 The limit could be changed in run time and "0" means disable
58                 the limit. No limit is the initial state.  Unit: bytes
59
60 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/compact
61 Date:           August 2015
62 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
63 Description:
64                 The compact file is write-only and trigger compaction for
65                 allocator zrm uses. The allocator moves some objects so that
66                 it could free fragment space.
67
68 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/io_stat
69 Date:           August 2015
70 Contact:        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
71 Description:
72                 The io_stat file is read-only and accumulates device's I/O
73                 statistics not accounted by block layer. For example,
74                 failed_reads, failed_writes, etc. File format is similar to
75                 block layer statistics file format.
76
77 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat
78 Date:           August 2015
79 Contact:        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
80 Description:
81                 The mm_stat file is read-only and represents device's mm
82                 statistics (orig_data_size, compr_data_size, etc.) in a format
83                 similar to block layer statistics file format.
84
85 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/debug_stat
86 Date:           July 2016
87 Contact:        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
88 Description:
89                 The debug_stat file is read-only and represents various
90                 device's debugging info useful for kernel developers. Its
91                 format is not documented intentionally and may change
92                 anytime without any notice.
93
94 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/backing_dev
95 Date:           June 2017
96 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
97 Description:
98                 The backing_dev file is read-write and set up backing
99                 device for zram to write incompressible pages.
100                 For using, user should enable CONFIG_ZRAM_WRITEBACK.
101
102 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/idle
103 Date:           November 2018
104 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
105 Description:
106                 idle file is write-only and mark zram slot as idle.
107                 If system has mounted debugfs, user can see which slots
108                 are idle via /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram<id>/block_state
109
110 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/writeback
111 Date:           November 2018
112 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
113 Description:
114                 The writeback file is write-only and trigger idle and/or
115                 huge page writeback to backing device.
116
117 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/bd_stat
118 Date:           November 2018
119 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
120 Description:
121                 The bd_stat file is read-only and represents backing device's
122                 statistics (bd_count, bd_reads, bd_writes) in a format
123                 similar to block layer statistics file format.
124
125 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/writeback_limit_enable
126 Date:           November 2018
127 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
128 Description:
129                 The writeback_limit_enable file is read-write and specifies
130                 eanbe of writeback_limit feature. "1" means eable the feature.
131                 No limit "0" is the initial state.
132
133 What:           /sys/block/zram<id>/writeback_limit
134 Date:           November 2018
135 Contact:        Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
136 Description:
137                 The writeback_limit file is read-write and specifies the maximum
138                 amount of writeback ZRAM can do. The limit could be changed
139                 in run time.