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From: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com>
To: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap: change params from hidden to ro
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:33:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131120173347.GA2369@hp530> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384965522-5788-1-git-send-email-ddstreet@ieee.org>

Hi Dan!

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:38:42AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
> The "compressor" and "enabled" params are currently hidden,
> this changes them to read-only, so userspace can tell if
> zswap is enabled or not and see what compressor is in use.

Could you elaborate more why this pice of information is necessary for
userspace?

Vladimir

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
> ---
>  mm/zswap.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index d93510c..36b268b 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -77,12 +77,12 @@ static u64 zswap_duplicate_entry;
>  **********************************/
>  /* Enable/disable zswap (disabled by default, fixed at boot for now) */
>  static bool zswap_enabled __read_mostly;
> -module_param_named(enabled, zswap_enabled, bool, 0);
> +module_param_named(enabled, zswap_enabled, bool, 0444);
>  
>  /* Compressor to be used by zswap (fixed at boot for now) */
>  #define ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT "lzo"
>  static char *zswap_compressor = ZSWAP_COMPRESSOR_DEFAULT;
> -module_param_named(compressor, zswap_compressor, charp, 0);
> +module_param_named(compressor, zswap_compressor, charp, 0444);
>  
>  /* The maximum percentage of memory that the compressed pool can occupy */
>  static unsigned int zswap_max_pool_percent = 20;
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20 16:38 [PATCH] mm/zswap: change params from hidden to ro Dan Streetman
2013-11-20 17:33 ` Vladimir Murzin [this message]
2013-11-20 17:52   ` Dan Streetman
2013-11-21  3:12     ` Weijie Yang
2013-11-21 22:36       ` Dan Streetman
2013-11-22  7:38     ` Vladimir Murzin
2013-11-22 17:18       ` Dan Streetman
2013-11-24 14:15         ` Vladimir Murzin
2013-11-22 17:21 ` Seth Jennings
2013-12-13 20:56   ` Dan Streetman

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