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| author | Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2023-03-09 15:05:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-03-28 16:20:15 -0700 |
| commit | 2c6efe9cf2d7841b75fe38ed1adbd41a90f51ba0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b649bab7e8913980c89b34292998920be7f78c5 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | d0f5a85442d1a0552eae681b2e8cdc86ac08aba2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2c6efe9cf2d7841b75fe38ed1adbd41a90f51ba0.tar.gz | |
shmem: add support to ignore swap
In doing experimentations with shmem having the option to avoid swap
becomes a useful mechanism. One of the *raves* about brd over shmem is
you can avoid swap, but that's not really a good reason to use brd if we
can instead use shmem. Using brd has its own good reasons to exist, but
just because "tmpfs" doesn't let you do that is not a great reason to
avoid it if we can easily add support for it.
I don't add support for reconfiguring incompatible options, but if we
really wanted to we can add support for that.
To avoid swap we use mapping_set_unevictable() upon inode creation, and
put a WARN_ON_ONCE() stop-gap on writepages() for reclaim.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230309230545.2930737-7-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst index 1ec9a9f8196b28..f18f46be5c0c72 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ everything stored therein is lost. tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap -unneeded pages out to swap space, and supports THP. +unneeded pages out to swap space, if swap was enabled for the tmpfs +mount. tmpfs also supports THP. tmpfs extends ramfs with a few userspace configurable options listed and explained further below, some of which can be reconfigured dynamically on the @@ -33,8 +34,8 @@ configured in size at initialization and you cannot dynamically resize them. Contrary to brd ramdisks, tmpfs has its own filesystem, it does not rely on the block layer at all. -Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs -pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in +Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and optionally on swap, +all tmpfs pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in free(1). Notice that these counters also include shared memory (shmem, see ipcs(1)). The most reliable way to get the count is using df(1) and du(1). @@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ nr_inodes The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages, whichever is the lower. +noswap Disables swap. Remounts must respect the original settings. + By default swap is enabled. ========= ============================================================ These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and |