Commit 1d69a3f8 authored by Minchan Kim's avatar Minchan Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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zram: idle writeback fixes and cleanup

This patch includes some fixes and cleanup for idle-page writeback.

1. writeback_limit interface

Now writeback_limit interface is rather conusing.  For example, once
writeback limit budget is exausted, admin can see 0 from
/sys/block/zramX/writeback_limit which is same semantic with disable
writeback_limit at this moment.  IOW, admin cannot tell that zero came
from disable writeback limit or exausted writeback limit.

To make the interface clear, let's sepatate enable of writeback limit to
another knob - /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit_enable

* before:
  while true :
    # to re-enable writeback limit once previous one is used up
    echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit
    echo $((200<<20)) > /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit
    ..
    .. # used up the writeback limit budget

* new
  # To enable writeback limit, from the beginning, admin should
  # enable it.
  echo $((200<<20)) > /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit
  echo 1 > /sys/block/zram/0/writeback_limit...
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