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zswap: runtime enable/disable

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Change the "enabled" parameter to be configurable at runtime.  Remove the
enabled check from init(), and move it to the frontswap store() function;
when enabled, pages will be stored, and when disabled, pages won't be
stored.

This is almost identical to Seth's patch from 2 years ago:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.2/04289.html

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Suggested-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Streetman 2015-06-25 15:00:35 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -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: